IBM Concentrator PhotoVoltaic (CPV) Solar Power Research Breakthroughby John Laumer, Philadelphia on 05.17.08
IBM has leveraged their computer-chip cooling know-how into a highly effective solar concentrator design. Bench-scale testing of the design (as pictured) shows an order of magnitude increase in solar power output from a unit cell. Other designers have worked out CPVs with similar concentrating lenses, typically paired with a tracking device. The cooling part of IBMs' design is the cool part: something no other designer has access to, presumably.
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