Fabrication of two-terminal metal-interconnected multijunction III-V solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 944-948

  Lin, Chieh Ting ^a   McMahon, W E ^b   Ward, J S ^b   Geisz, J F ^b   Wanlass, M W ^b   Carapella, J J ^b   Olavarria, W ^b   Young, M ^b   Steiner, M A ^b   Frances, R M ^b   Kibbler, A E ^b   Duda, A ^b   Olson, J M ^b   Perl, E E ^a   Friedman, D J ^b   Bowers, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

device bonding; III V multijunction solar cell

Indexed keywords

BONDING PROCESS; COMPLEX DEVICES; FILLER MATERIALS; GAAS; GAAS SUBSTRATES; GAAS WAFER; GAINASP; GAINP; GAINP/GAAS; III-V SOLAR CELLS; INP SUBSTRATES; LATTICE-MATCHED; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; MULTI-JUNCTION III-V SOLAR CELLS; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; TANDEM CELLS;

FABRICATION; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SOLAR CELLS; WAFER BONDING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84869432208     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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