Performance of antireflecting coating-algaas window layer coupling for terrestrial concentrator gaas solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1499-1506

  Algora, Carlos ^a   Alcaraz, Manuel Felices ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

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EID: 0031233948     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.622607     Document Type: Article

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