2020 Proceedings
The proceedings of Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration XVII have been published in Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 11495, edited by Roland Winston, and Eli Yablonovitch .
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Sessions
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Published Papers
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Recorded Presentations
Explore the published papers and presentations from the 2020 Nonimaging Optics conference, which was organized on 24 August - 4 September 2020 in Online Only, California, United States.
Papers and Presentations
Front Matter: Volume 11495
Welcome
Advanced Developments
Searching for a better way to concentrate light
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Vector potential and its power on explaining ideal nonimaging optics
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Advances in flowline simulations: virtual source computation method
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Concentrator Designs
Computational method for optimizing segmented nonimaging concentrators
Christine Hoffman ; Boaz Ilan
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Caustic surface produced by a simple lens considering a point source placed at arbitrary position along the optical axis
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Illumination
Freeform optics for dynamic illumination
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New Concepts
Reflector design and study via conformal mappings
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Analysis on optical efficiency for tiling polygonal luminescent waveguides
Ichiro Fujieda ; Yasuhiro Tsutsumi
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Hamiltonian formulation of flowlines, first step for Wigner formalism analysis
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Numerical and Freeform Methods
Freeform compound concentrators for indoor optical wireless communications
Jorge García-Márquez ; Juan Camilo Valencia-Estrada
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A simple method to solve the RTE without scattering and absorption in a solar cell
Pedro Gonzalez-Rodriguez
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Green's function formalism for nonimaging optics
Arnold D. Kim ; Boaz Ilan
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Solar Applications
Progress in the development of two stage concentrated (53X) parabolic trough solar thermal collector
Yogesh Bhusal ; Bennett Widyolar ; Lun Jiang ; Jordyn Brinkley ; Roland Winston ; David Cygan ; Hamid Abbasi
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Preliminary experimental results of a novel low cost solar thermal collector with integrated optics for desalination processes
Jordyn Brinkley ; Bennett Widyolar ; Lun Jiang ; Yogesh Bhusal ; Gerardo Diaz ; James Palko ; Roland Winston
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Low cost solar photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) collector using aluminum minichannels and nonimaging optics
Bennett K. Widyolar ; Lun Jiang ; Jordyn Brinkley ; Sai Kiran Hota ; Jonathan Ferry ; Gerardo Diaz ; Roland Winston
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Novel volume holographic grating-based spectrum-splitting concentrator for hybrid solar system
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Modeling monthly insolation data
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Solar concentration, solar resource utilization, and sustainability
Harry Apostoleris ; Matteo Chiesa
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External compound parabolic concentrator (XCPC) for decarbonizing industrial processing heat
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