In-flight performance of III-V multi-junction solar cells from the Forward Technology Solar Cell Experiment

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Jenkins, Phillip P ^a   Walters, Robert J ^a   Greer, Lawrence C ^b   Krasowski, Michael J ^b   Flatico, Joseph M ^c   Bruninga, Robert ^d   Myre, David ^d   Lorentzen, Justin R ^e   Crist, Kevin ^f   Edmondson, Kenneth ^g   Boca, Andreea ^g  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^e SFA INC   (United States)

^f EMCORE Corporation   (United States)

^g Spectrolab Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORWARD TECHNOLOGY SOLAR CELL EXPERIMENTS; III-V MULTI-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; IN-FLIGHT PERFORMANCE; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; METAMORPHIC CELLS; MULTI-JUNCTION CELLS; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; SPACE QUALIFIED;

MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; SOLAR CELLS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84879713659     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2008.4922859     Document Type: Conference Paper

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