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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2016
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Harry A. Atwater, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Sergio Pellegrino, Pasadena, CA (US);
Seyed Ali Hajimiri, La Canada, CA (US);
Emily C. Warmann, Riverside, CA (US);
Dennis Callahan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jeffrey P. Bosco, Los Angeles, CA (US);
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
Compactable power generation arrays are provided. The compactable power generation arrays may include a structural substrate body having an array of solar concentrators configured to receive and re-direct solar radiation onto a plurality of photovoltaic (PV) cells. In many other embodiments the PV cells may be disposed upon a back surface of each of the solar concentrators such that an adjacent solar concentrator is configured to re-direct solar radiation onto the PV cell disposed on the back surface of the adjacent solar concentrator.