Solar power system

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1978-10-02

1980-05-27

Weisstuch, Aaron

Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric

Thermoelectric

Radiation pyrometer

126438, 136 89CA, 136206, 350162R, 350162ZP, 350211, H01L 3104

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042048818

ABSTRACT:
A system for generating electrical power from sunlight, comprising a focussing diffraction grating or other focussing, spectrally dispersive means and a photocell array. The diffraction grating focuses sunlight into a spectrally dispersed band. The photocell array is composed of cells with different spectral sensitivities, located in positions in the dispersed band corresponding to the cell spectral sensitivities so that the net conversion efficiency of sunlight to electricity exceeds the conversion efficiency attainable with nondispersive collectors and single material photocells. Alternate embodiments of the invention provide sun tracking means, reflective or transmissive diffraction gratings, flat or curved diffraction grating surfaces, on- or off-axis focus, and optical coatings on the photocell surfaces.

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F. A. Jenkins et al., "Fundamentals of Optics," McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1957, pp. 347-348.

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