Previous fiber-shaped solar cells are based on polymeric materials or dye-sensitized wide band-gap oxides. Here, we show that efficient fiber solar cells can be made from semiconducting nanostructures (e.g. CdSe) with smaller band-gap as the light absorption material. We directly grow a vertical array of CdSe nanowires uniformly around a core metal wire and make the device by covering the top o...

Solar photovoltaic (SPV) power systems can be employed as electrical power sources to meet the daily residential energy needs of rural areas that have no access to grid systems. In view of this, a standalone SPV powered air cooling system is proposed in this paper, which constitutes a dc-dc boost converter, two voltage source inverters (VSI) connected to two brushless dc (BLDC) motors which are...

The major objective of this study is to develop an integrated orbit, attitude, and structural control system architecture for very large Space Solar Power Satellites (SSPS) in geosynchronous orbit. This study focuses on the 1.2-GW “Abacus” SSPS concept characterized by a 3.2 × 3.2 km solar-array platform, a 500-m diameter microwave beam transmitting antenna, and a 500 × 700 m earth-tracking ref...

The output power produced by high-concentration solar thermal and photovoltaic systems is directly related to the amount of solar energy acquired by the System, and it is therefore necessary to track the sun’s position with a high degree of accuracy. This paper presents sun tracking generating power system designed and implemented in real time. A tracking mechanism composed of photovoltaic modu...

This paper presents a search for radio transients at a frequency of 73.8 MHz (4 m wavelength) using the all-sky imaging capabilities of the Long Wavelength Demonstrator Array (LWDA). The LWDA was a 16-dipole phased array telescope, located on the site of the Very Large Array in New Mexico. The field of view of the individual dipoles was essentially the entire sky, and the number of dipoles was ...

The impedance extension method (IEM) has been proposed so far, as a method for analysis of a huge-scale periodic array antenna for power transmission from space solar power systems (SSPS) to the earth[1][2]. Since the IEM is an approximate method based on active impedance properties of elements in the periodic array antenna[3], the IEM can only be applied to the periodic array antenna. However,...

We have developed a design for a Compton scatter polarimeter to measure the polarization of hard X-rays (50{300 keV) from solar ares. The modular design is based on an annular array of scintillating bers coupled to a 5-inch position-sensitive PMT. Incident photons scatter from the ber array into a small array of NaI detectors located at the center of the annulus. The location of the interaction...

As part of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Low-Cost Solar Array Project, a program of module and array circuit-design studies has been carried out to improve the reliability of modules and to develop strategies for improving array system fault tolerance. Analyses to determine optimum element configuration and circuit design strategies, made with the use of a computer model that uses the measura...

Local solar irradiation data has been used for Model Predictive Control (MPC) in supervisory level building control systems, with significant influence demonstrated on perimeter building zones with a high fraction of window area. This work investigates the impact of uncertain solar estimation on MPC performance with respect to energy consumption and comfort by comparing MPC responses for a mult...