Modeling of the resistive losses due to the bus-bar and external connections in III-V high-concentrator solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1709-1714

  Rey Stolle, Ignacio ^b   Algora, Carlos ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gallium arsenide; Photovoltaic cell fabrication; Photovoltaic cells

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BUSBARS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; HIGH-CONCENTRATOR SOLAR CELL; INVERTED SQUARE GRID; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CURRENT FLOW; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL FABRICATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CURRENT FLOW;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0036773569     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2002.803638     Document Type: Article

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