NASA's advanced radioisotope power conversion technology development status

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Anderson, David J ^a   Sankovic, John ^a   Wilt, David ^a   Abelson, Robert D ^b   Fleurial, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NASA; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RELIABILITY THEORY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SCALABILITY; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

PAYOFFS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POWER CONVERSION;

RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 34548747443     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2007.352696     Document Type: Conference Paper

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