Featured in Testing the waters – 07-2011

A challenge and an opportunity

Concentrating photovoltaics: In recent months, the market for terrestrial CPV has gained some momentum. As dual axis tracking is a must-have for CPV to maximize investment in materials and optimize conversion efficiency, it presents both an opportunity and a challenge for tracker manufacturers.

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pv magazine

28 Jun 2011

Concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) has been a high-cost, high-efficiency PV technology used mainly on satellites and in space exploration. It achieves conversion rates twice that of standard solar cells by exploiting premium semiconducting materials, such as gallium arsenide, Indium gallium phosphide, and germanium. The wafers are packaged with lenses and optics and mounted on dual axis …

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