Temperature variation effects on electrostrictive actuators and its quasi-static compensation

Deformable mirrors are used for changing the wavefront of the reflected light by using one or more actuators behind the mirror to physically deform it. This application is widely used in telescopes to compensate for atmospheric aberrations using a feedback wavefront sensor. Recent advances in lithography process require more precise wavefront...

Energy Yield Model for Bifacial PV Systems: A study and analysis of temperature & rear irradiance models

In order to make the bifacial yield prediction models commercially available, a lot of work their development, improvement and validation is being done by many research institutes. At Energy research center of the Netherlands (ECN), one such model is under development. In this project, couple of aspects were investigated to give better insight...