Do Solar Panels Use Mirrors

I am an m sc.

Do solar panels use mirrors.

In this receiver a fluid is heated and used to generate steam. The setup includes an array of large sun tracking mirrors known as heliostats that focus sunlight on a receiver at the top of a tower. Student from nigeria where solar illumination is not a problem but the use to be between 35 oc to 40 oc which highly affect the performance of solar panels. This might be less intuitive but manufacturing and installing solar panels is a pretty straight forward process.

Electricity is generated when the concentrated light is converted to heat solar thermal energy which drives a heat engine usually a steam turbine connected to an electrical power. See article heliostat for more information on solar mirrors used for terrestrial energy. Some concepts use mirrors and others use cheap plastic lenses. Concentrated solar power csp also known as concentrating solar power concentrated solar thermal systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a receiver.

I am intending to use the same principle but in case i want to shade the solar panel leaving the reflecting mirror in direct solar radiation to reduce the panel temperature. A solar mirror contains a substrate with a reflective layer for reflecting the solar energy and in most cases an interference layer this may be a planar mirror or parabolic arrays of solar mirrors used to achieve a substantially concentrated reflection factor for solar energy systems. Aside from the damage described in the other answers there are a few other compelling reasons not to take this approach.