Tunnel diode revealing peculiarities at I-V measurements in multijunction III-V solar cells

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 799-802

  Andreev, V M ^a   Ionova, E A ^a   Larionov, V R ^a   Rumyantsev, V D ^a   Shvarts, M Z ^a   Glenn, G ^b  

^a IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b Spectrolab Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TUNNEL DIODES;

FLASH ILLUMINATION; LOAD RESISTANCE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749092986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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