Fabrication of CPC system

Non imaging asymmetric CPC Photovoltaic Concentrators will be used in this task and will increase the concentration ratio to 2.5 through truncation and using the model developed in task 1.5. The advantages of this are (i) significant reduction in reflector material and thus overall system cost; (ii) overall increase in the diffuse solar radiation collection (iii) flat façade is produced that reduces accrual of dust and salt deposits. The LDS layers developed in 1.3 and PLDS layers developed from1.4 will form the aperture of this device. Different truncation will be employed for different system applications (lower and higher solar radiation climates). The stages will include (i) aperture design and construction in conjunction with WP1; (ii) reflector design and materials and reflector supports; (iii) PV cell integration; (iv) system enclosure and frame. This will be completed under task 1.6.