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2011 Proceedings

The proceedings of Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration VIII have been published in Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 8124, edited by Roland Winston, and Jeffrey M. Gordon .

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Proceedings at a Glance

8

Sessions

24

Published Papers

Explore the published papers and presentations from the 2011 Nonimaging Optics conference, which was organized on 21-25 August 2011 in San Diego, California, United States.

Papers and Presentations

Front Matter: Volume 8124

Front Matter: Volume 8124

Illumination Optics

Illumination devices for uniform delivery of light to the oral cavity for photodynamic therapy

Cristina Canavesi ; William J. Cassarly ; Thomas H. Foster ; Jannick P. Rolland

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Construction of freeforms in illumination systems via generalized Cartesian oval representation

D. Michaelis ; P. Schreiber ; Chen Li ; A. Bräuer

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Design, manufacturing, and measurements of a metal-less V-groove RXI collimator

Dejan Grabovickic ; Juan C. Miñano ; Pablo Benítez ; Cristina Cocho ; Marina Buljan

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Uniform light distribution by using microlenses with various focal lengths

I-Chiao Hsu ; Guo-Dung John Su

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Novel Applications and Fundamental Limits I

Improved hybrid SMS-DSF method of nonimaging optical design

John Bortz ; Narkis Shatz

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Fundamental bounds for harvesting sunlight with aperture antennae

Heylal Mashaal ; Jeffrey M. Gordon

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Novel Applications and Fundamental Limits II

Thermodynamically efficient solar concentrators

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New vistas in solar concentration with gradient-index optics

Panagiotis Kotsidas ; Vijay Modi ; Jeffrey M. Gordon

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Solar thermal system for lunar ISRU applications: development and field operation at Mauna Kea, HI

Takashi Nakamura ; Benjamin K. Smith

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Spiral nonimaging optical designs

Pablo Zamora ; Pablo Benítez ; Juan C. Miñano ; Juan Vilaplana

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Materials and Optical Surfaces for Solar Applications

Angular dependence of surface-relief gratings for solar and lighting applications

Ties M. de Jong ; Dick K. G. de Boer ; Cees W. M. Bastiaansen

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Evaluation and comparison of different designs and materials for Fresnel lens-based solar concentrators

Ling Fu ; Ralf Leutz ; Hans Philipp Annen

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Limiting acceptance angle to maximize efficiency in solar cells

Emily D. Kosten ; Harry A. Atwater

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Investigation of scattering profiles for passive solar light collectors

A. N. Bharathwaj ; Balaji Srinivasan

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Nonimaging Optics in Concentrator Photovoltaics I

Free-form Fresnel RXI-RR Köhler design for high-concentration photovoltaics with spectrum-splitting

M. Buljan ; P. Benítez ; R. Mohedano ; J. C. Miñano ; Y. Sun ; W. Falicoff ; J. Vilaplana ; J. Chaves ; G. Biot

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Static high-irradiance solar concentration by gradient-index optics

Panagiotis Kotsidas ; Vijay Modi ; Jeffrey M. Gordon

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High-efficiency Köhler photovoltaic concentrators with external light confinement

Pablo Zamora ; Pablo Benítez ; Juan C. Miñano ; Yang Li ; Marina Buljan

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Nonimaging Optics in Concentrator Photovoltaics II

Nested aplanatic optics

Alex Goldstein ; Daniel Feuermann ; Gary D. Conley ; Jeffrey M. Gordon

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Integrating tracking in concentrating photovoltaics using non-rotational symmetric laterally moving optics

Fabian Duerr ; Pablo Benítez ; Juan Carlos Miñano ; Youri Meuret ; Hugo Thienpont

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Optical characterization of nonimaging focusing heliostat

Kok-Keong Chong

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Optical design and efficiency improvement for organic luminescent solar concentrators

Chunhua Wang ; Linda S. Hirst ; Roland Winston

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Poster Session

Optical characterization of solar furnace system using fixed geometry nonimaging focusing heliostat and secondary parabolic concentrator

Kok-Keong Chong ; Chuan-Yang Lim ; Wee-Liang Keh ; Jian-Hau Fan ; Faidz Abdul Rahman

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A hemispherical static concentrator with double aspheric compensated lens array for continued collecting sunlight

Wei-An Chen ; Yi-Yung Chen ; Allen Jong-Woei Whang ; Chi-Tang Ma

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Effect of scattering of cover glass for silicon and dye-sensitized solar cells

Hsi-Chao Chen ; Wen-Jie Lu ; Yen-Ming Lo ; Shih-Sian You

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