Thin-film solar cells on polymer substrates for space power

Collection of Technical Papers - 2nd International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1737-1754

  Hepp, Aloysius F ^a   McNatt, Jeremiah S ^a   Dickman, John E ^a,g   Morel, Don L ^b   Ferekides, Chris S ^b,h   Jin, Michael H C ^c   Banger, Kulbinder K ^c,h   Orbey, Nese ^d   Cushman, Michael ^d,h   Birkmire, Robert W ^e   Shafarman, William N ^e,i   Newton, Robert ^f,h  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d FOSTER MILLER INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^f Techni Met Inc   (United States)

^g PVSE Branch   (United States)

^h Department of Electrical Engineering ^*  (United States)

ⁱ Institute for Energy Conversion   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYIMIDES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE RESEARCH; THIN FILMS;

DEPLOYMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS; SOLAR ARRAYS; TANDEM DEVICES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 20344379709     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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