WO2001049475A8 - Photovoltaic device with optical concentrator and method of making the same - Google Patents

Photovoltaic device with optical concentrator and method of making the same

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WO2001049475A8
WO2001049475A8 PCT/US2001/000336 US0100336W WO0149475A8 WO 2001049475 A8 WO2001049475 A8 WO 2001049475A8 US 0100336 W US0100336 W US 0100336W WO 0149475 A8 WO0149475 A8 WO 0149475A8
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concentrators
photovoltaic device
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optical concentrator
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Peter Peumans
Stephen R Forrest
Vladimir Bulovic
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Univ Princeton
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Abstract

A method of fabricating a low-cost, flexible and highly efficient photovoltaic device. The method includes providing a layer of thin film, shaping the thin film into a plurality of parabolic shaped concentrators (5B01), forming an aperture (5B02) in the bottom of each of the parabolic shaped concentrators (5B01), coating the concentrators (5B01) with a reflective material (503), encapsulating the concentrators (5B01) with a transparent insulating layer (505), and depositing an anti-reflective coating (511) on the top of the parabolic shaped concentrators (5B01).
PCT/US2001/000336 2000-01-05 2001-01-05 Photovoltaic device with optical concentrator and method of making the same WO2001049475A1 (en)

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