A study on the effects of the proton flux on the irradiated degradation of GaAs/Ge solar cells

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 266, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3577-3582

  Jianmin, Hu ^a,b   Yiyong, Wu ^a   Dezhuang, Yang ^a   Shiyu, He ^a   Zhongwei, Zhang ^c   Yong, Qian ^c   Mengyan, Zhang ^c  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HARBIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF SPACE POWER SOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Flux; GaAs solar cell; Proton radiation

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DEGRADATION; DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; EXPERIMENTS; IRRADIATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PROTON IRRADIATION; PROTONS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SULFATE MINERALS;

DEGRADATION PROCESSING; FLUX; GAAS SOLAR CELL; GAAS/GE; GROUND-BASED EXPERIMENTS; I-V MEASUREMENTS; LOW ENERGIES; PROTON ENERGIES; PROTON FLUX; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION FLUXES;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 49449090887     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2008.05.140     Document Type: Article

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