Solar cell experiments for space: Past, present and future

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8620, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hoheisel, R ^a   Messenger, S R ^b   Lumb, M P ^a   Gonzalez, M ^c   Bailey, C G ^b   Scheiman, D A ^b   Maximenko, S ^b   Jenkins, P P ^b   Walters, R J ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SOTERA DEFENSE SOLUTIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi Junction; Radiation Hardness; Solar Cell; Space

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; MULTI-JUNCTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; RADIATION HARDNESS; SOLAR CELL MATERIALS; SPACE;

EXPERIMENTS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SATELLITES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84878620327     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2006087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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