Design, growth, fabrication and characterization of high-band GAP InGaN/GaN solar cells

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 20-25

  Jani, Omkar ^a   Honsberg, Christiana ^b   Huang, Yong ^a   Song, June O ^a   Ferguson, Ian ^a   Namkoong, Gon ^a   Trybus, Elaissa ^a   Doolittle, Alan ^a   Kurtz, Sarah ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CHARACTERIZATION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM NITRIDE; MICROFABRICATION; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

MATERIAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCIES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749125930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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