Abstract
The ability of pressurized membranes to approximate a paraboloid of revolution is investigated. The optical performance of different membrane materials is analyzed computationally and experimentally, showing concentrations of up to 3070 suns.
© 2018 The Author(s)
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Blake Coughenour, Guillaume Butel, and Roger Angel
SRWC5 Optics for Solar Energy (SOLED) 2011
Roger Angel
ATu2J.3 CLEO: Applications and Technology (CLEO:A&T) 2015
Lifeng Li, Bo Wang, Johannes Pottas, José Zapata, and Wojciech Lipiński
OW3D.5 Optics for Solar Energy (SOLED) 2018