Fabrication of high efficiency, III-V multi-junction solar cells for space concentrators

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 920-922

  Stavrides, Alex ^a   King, Richard R ^a   Colter, Peter ^a   Kinsey, Geoffrey ^a   McDanal, A J ^b   O'Neill, Mark J ^b   Karam, N H ^a  

^a Spectrolab Inc   (United States)

^b ENTECH Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

APERTURE AREA; MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; SPACE CONCENTRATORS; ULTRALIGHT STRETCHED LENS ARRAY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0036956810     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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