High concentration testing and performance of multijunction solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1612-1615

  Cotal, Hector ^a   Sherif, Raed ^a   Glenn, Greg ^a   Krut, Dmitri ^a   Paredes, Anastacio ^a   Meza, Tom ^a   Hayden, Herb ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b Arizona Public Service Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; OPTICS; PERFORMANCE; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TESTING; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

FRESNEL OPTICS; GALLIUM INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; HIGH CONCENTRATION TESTING; HIGH INTENSITY PULSE SOLAR SIMULATOR; MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0036957802     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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