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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Theodore G Stern, San Diego, CA (US);
David M Peterson, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Dynamics Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
136246 ;
Abstract
A solar energy splitting photovoltaic concentrator system that includes a first reflector that concentrates and directs sunlight to a high energy bandgap first photovoltaic array that absorbs and converts into electricity high energy photons. A second reflector formed integrally with the first photovoltaic array concentrates and reflects low energy photons back through the first photovoltaic array, which is transparent to the low energy photon, to a low energy bandgap second photovoltaic array that absorbs and converts the low energy photons.