Results of flight demonstration of terrestrial solar cells in space

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 93-102

  Imaizumi, Mitsuru ^a   Sumita, Taishi ^a   Kawakita, Shirou ^a   Aoyama, Kazuhiro ^a   Anzawa, Osamu ^b   Aburaya, Takashi ^a   Hisamatsu, Tadashi ^a   Matsuda, Sumio ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degradation; Displacement damage dose; Eqauivalent fluence; Flight demonstration; MDS 1; Radiation; Terrestrial solar cells; TSC

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DATA REDUCTION; DEGRADATION; DOSIMETRY; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; ORBITS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SPACE RESEARCH;

DISPLACEMENT DAMAGE DOSE; EQUIVALENT FLUENCE; FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION; MISSION DEMONSTRATION-TEST SATELLITE NO.1 (MDS-10; RADIATION RESISTANCE; TERRESTRIAL SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 14644442902     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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