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A Combined Energy-Economic Optimization of the Location and Installation of Photovoltaic Panels

Thibaut Montbarbon, Nicolas Elie Abdelhak, Maxime Pierre Gabriel Thivolle

This project is an exploration of a research question in the environmental and economic domains. This project’s intent is to explore a multi-objective optimization of the placement and installation of solar panels by analyzing the quantum of their energy p ...

2013

High-performance tandem silicon solar cells on F:SnO2

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Laura Ding

High-performance transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) have significance for optimising PV performance. The efficiency of the resulting solar cells is dependent particularly on achieving high light scattering, low resistivity and low absorption (via low fre ...

Elsevier2013

The Autonomous Photovoltaic MarXbot

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Martin Olivier Liniger

Domestic service robots are currently powered by the mains electricity. The growing multiplication of such devices negatively impacts our environment. In this study, we show the feasibility of harvesting energy from natural light in an indoor environment. ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2013

BIPV Visual Assessment for Architecture Retrofitting

Stephen Wittkopf, Ran Xu

Typical architecture designers convey through vague and qualified notions. With the increasing number of PV installations on buildings, architects are forced to corporate with technicians and engineers in the design processes. However, the communications b ...

EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB)2013

Développement et optimisation de revêtements minces nanostructurés pour capteurs solaires thermiques et modules photovoltaïques

Martin Joly

Renewable and available in abundance, incident solar radiation is an ideal candidate for energy production. The development of nanostructured coatings for the improve- ment of technologies that convert solar energy into heat and electricity opens interesti ...

EPFL2012

Solar shading and its influence on daylight and well-being

Marilyne Andersen

This talk will provide current research perspectives on shading systems, on how their performance can be evaluated and on what the implications are on comfort and health. In particular, the latest results from an ongoing research project conducted at the L ...

2012

Light Harvesting Schemes for High Efficiency Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Corsin Battaglia, Jordi Escarre Palou, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Sylvain Nicolay, Grégory Bugnon, Laura Ding, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Gaetano Parascandolo, Peter Cuony, Mathieu Charrière, Maximilien Joseph Marie Bonnet-Eymard

In Thin Film Silicon (TF-Si) solar cells light harvesting schemes must guarantee an efficient light trapping in the thin absorber layers without decreasing the silicon layers quality and consecutively the p-i-n diodes electrical performance. TF-Si solar ce ...

Ieee2012

Diagnostics of thin-film silicon solar cells and solar panels/modules with variable intensity measurements (VIM)

Arvind Shah, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud, Omid Madani Ghahfarokhi

A simple and low-cost method for analyzing amorphous silicon solar cells and modules, which have low values of the fill factor (FF), is proposed. Low fill factors can occur mainly because of 3 reasons: (a) excessive recombination due to "bad" intrinsic lay ...

Elsevier2011

Case Studies in Cost-Optimized Paneling of Architectural Freeform Surfaces

Mark Pauly, Mario Moacir Deuss

Paneling an architectural freeform surface refers to an approximation of the de- sign surface by a set of panels that can be manufactured using a selected technology at a reasonable cost, while respecting the design intent and achieving the desired aesthet ...

2010

The analysis of digital urban models derived from Lidar data for the assessment of the environmental quality of cities

Claudio Magalhaes Carneiro, Gilles Desthieux

Aim of the work is to assess the environmental quality and the potential implementation of renewable energies at the scale of the city referring to Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) data. This source of data allows to predict environmental indicators in ...

2009

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