A comparative study of BSF layers for GaAs-based single-junction or multijunction concentrator solar cells

Semiconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1387-1392

  Galiana, Beatriz ^a   Rey Stolle, Ignacio ^a   Baudrit, Mathieu ^a   García, Iván ^a   Algora, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MIRRORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; ZINC;

BSF LAYERS; MULTIJUNCTION; MULTIJUNCTION CONCENTRATOR SOLAR CELLS; SINGLE-JUNCTION DEVICE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 33748852281     PISSN: 02681242     EISSN: 13616641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0268-1242/21/10/003     Document Type: Article

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