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patent · US6958868

Motion-free tracking solar concentrator

25 October 2005

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Abstract

An integrated solar concentrator and tracker is constructed from a beam deflector for unpolarized light in combination with a fixed optical condenser. The one-dimensional beam deflector consists of a pair of prism arrays made from a material whose refractive index can be varied by applying an electric field. Two of the one-dimensional concentrators can be arranged with their faces in contact and with their prism arrays perpendicular to construct a two-dimensional beam deflect...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2004-03-29
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2005-10-25
Inventors
John George Pender