Advanced III-V multijunction cells for space

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1757-1762

  King, Richard R ^a   Fetzer, Christopher M ^a   Law, Daniel C ^a   Edmondson, Kenneth M ^a   Yoon, Hojun ^a   Kinsey, Geoffrey S ^a   Krut, Dimitri D ^a   Ermer, James H ^a   Hebert, Peter ^a   Cavicchi, B Terence ^a   Karam, Nasser H ^a  

^a Spectrolab Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; POWER GENERATION; RELIABILITY; THERMAL CYCLING;

LIGHTWEIGHT PANELS; MULTIJUNCTION CELLS; SPACE ENVIRONMENT;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749104838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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