GaP/Si wire array solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 918-922

  Tamboli, Adele C ^a   Turner Evans, Daniel B ^a   Malhotra, Manav ^a   Kelzenberg, Michael D ^a   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ILLUMINATION; COATING THICKNESS; CURRENT MATCHING; DEVICE PHYSICS; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRICAL QUALITY; EMBEDDED WIRES; HALL MEASUREMENTS; HETEROSTRUCTURES; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH FIDELITY; INTEGRATING SPHERES; MULTIJUNCTION; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; QUATERNARY COMPOUND; SI WIRE ARRAY; SOLAR SPECTRUM; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID TECHNIQUES; WIRE ARRAYS;

ABSORPTION; ASPECT RATIO; COATINGS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPHERES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

WIRE;

EID: 78650139168     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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