Fabrication of GaInNAs-based solar cells for application to multi-junction tandem solar cells

Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC-4

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 869-872

  Miyashita, Naoya ^a   Shimizu, Yukiko ^a   Kobayashi, Naoto ^a   Okada, Yoshitaka ^a   Yamaguchi, Masafumi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dilute nitride semiconductors; Multi junction solar cells; RF MBE

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

DILUTE NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749083502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279595     Document Type: Conference Paper

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