SUNLAB student visiting CEA-INES this summer

Patrick White, MSc student at SUNLAB, has been invited for an exchange this summer (April 20th - August 8th) at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA-INES) , an industry research laboratory in France.He will be analysing the effects of concentrating optics on cell efficiency. Building on testing at SUNLAB in studying the effects of spectral distribution on cell performance allows the associated losses to be quantified for particular lens designs. The goal in developing the Methodologies for characterizing Electrical, Thermal, and Optical Devices (METHOD) technique with CAE-INES to quantify the losses due to the optics and proposal optimal cell positioning.