SECTION: Physics, Nanotechnologies, Materials Technology, Space
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION:
Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
REPORT FORM:
«Poster report»
AUTHOR(S)
OF THE REPORT:
Viacheslav Andreev, Valery Rumyantsev, Dmitry Malevskiy, Pavel Pokrovskiy, Nikolay Sadchikov and Antonio Luque
SPEAKER:
Viacheslav Andreev
REPORT TITLE:
Concentrator Photovoltaic Installations Based on Multijunction Solar Cells
TALKING POINTS:

Developed photovoltaic installations consist of high efficiency III-V nanoheterostructure solar cell with concentrator of solar energy and sun tracking system. The main advantages of these installations are as follows:

- efficiency of about 40% in multijunction solar cells at conversion of the concentrated sunlight;

- intermediate concentration (up to 800x) of the sunlight by means of the Fresnel lenses and proportional decrease in solar cell area and cell specific cost;

- more than in 2 times increase in electric power amount generated by a concentrator array;

- decrease in two-three times the quantity of consumable materials necessary for concentrator installations.

The investigations are carried out in the frame of Megagrant № 14.B25.31.0020.