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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2009
Applicant:
Arthur Ashkin, Rumson, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Arthur Ashkin, Rumson, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/052 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A solar collector utilizes multiple reflections of light passing down a tapered, pyramidal-type structure made of highly-reflective mirrored surfaces. A right-angled truncated reflective pyramidal structures have been discovered to have many properties which make them superior to existing concentrator geometries. The use of a tapered, pyramidal-type structure creates multiple reflections which appear at the collector output in the form of a Buckminster-Fullerene display, providing improved collector efficiency and amplification when compared to prior art 'concentrators' of the Fresnel lens or parabola type.