Monolithic III-V triple-junction solar cells under different temperatures and spectra

Proceedings of the 8th Spanish Conference on Electron Devices, CDE'2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fernández, Eduardo F ^a   Loureiro, A J Garcia ^b   Higueras, Pedro J Pérez ^a   Siefer, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

concentrator photovoltaic; III V solar cells; spectrum; temperature

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAICS; III-V SOLAR CELLS; LATTICE-MATCHED; LINEAR COEFFICIENTS; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; SINGLE-JUNCTION CELLS; SPECTRAL CONDITIONS; SPECTRUM; TRIPLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRON DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 79955726227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCED.2011.5744222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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