HyperSolar Announces completion of Solar Concentrator Prototype Design

HyperSolar, a company that discovered the technology to amplify the power of sun to improve the power output of solar cells, declared that it has productively finished the model design of its novel thin solar concentrator.

Dissimilar to the presently available concentrated photovoltaic solutions that utilize large sized mirrors or lenses and a sun tracking mechanical processes, the solar concentrator developed by HyperSolar is thin and flat shaped with a self-tracking feature. The concentrator can be utilized in traditional type of flat solar panels. The prototype design developed after a year’s research offers 300% light magnification and the company aims to develop a commercially viable product with a minimum of 400% magnification. The increased magnification feature will allow 75% reduction in the number of solar cells required and will considerably reduce the cost per watt of solar power.

The commercial version of the HyperSolar concentrator is anticipated to be around 1 cm in thickness and can be applied as a top sheet over the flat type of solar panels. The initial design version will be a larger sized single micro-concentrator solar module to enable testing and validating its functioning. After obtaining the validation for the photonic and optical features of the micro-concentrator module the company intends to miniaturize the design to enable bulk manufacture of commercial edition of the HyperSolar Concentrator.