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    • Glenn Rosenberg

    Chief Technology Officer, Prism Solar Technologies

    Glenn Rosenberg is the chief technology officer of Prism Solar Technologies (Lake Katrine, NY) and the inventor of holographic planar concentrator (HPC) technology.

    (Courtesy of Prism Solar Technologies)
    FIGURE 1. Holographic film (left), when used in a planar concentrator, collects light in areas not populated with PV cells (above). A mono-facial module design uses 50% less silicon than a conventional panel (right).
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    OPTICS FOR SOLAR ENERGY: Holographic planar concentrator increases solar-panel efficiency

    Mike Zecchino
    Dec. 1, 2008
    In a holographic planar concentrator, holographic film diffracts usable frequencies of sunlight, and guides that energy toward strips of solar cells, resulting in a solar module...