Patent ID: 8631565

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a solar concentrator cell module assembly within an integrated circuit process, the solar concentrator cell module assembly comprising at least one solar device, the at least one solar device comprising a printed circuit board and a cylindrical Fresnel lens, the method comprising: assembling the printed circuit board according to a pre-defined printed circuit board design layout that allows pick and place of a solar concentrator cell chip onto the printed circuit board; providing connections for the solar concentrator cell chip in a serialized or a parallelized arrangement on the printed circuit board; forming at least one opening in the printed circuit board to enable attachment of a cooling finger; placing the solar concentrator cell chip onto the printed circuit board; attaching the cooling finger to the backside of the solar cell concentrator chip through the at least one opening in the printed circuit board; and assembling a solar device using the assembled printed circuit board and the cylindrical Fresnel lens, the solar device having a solar concentration ratio by modifying a surface of the solar device versus a surface of the solar cell and covering a full extension of the circuit board base, wherein assembling the solar device comprises: placing the assembled printed circuit board in a base module comprising a metal frame adapted to hold the assembled printed circuit board and having a frame height that matches a focal length of the cylindrical Fresnel lens; placing the base module on a fixture of a base substrate, the base substrate comprising one or more fixtures, each fixture adapted to hold a respective base module; providing an active cooling mechanism within the base substrate to cool the base substrate with a liquid coolant; and coupling the cylindrical Fresnel lens to the base module; and assembling the solar concentrator cell module with the assembled solar device based on a pre-defined solar module layout.