High-Concentration, III-V Multijunction Solar Cells

Solar Cells and their Applications: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 293-312

  Kinsey, Geoffrey ^a  

^a Amonix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

High concentration, III V multijunction solar cells; III V multijunctions hardiness in rigors of space and on plains of Mars; Inverted metamorphic multijunction cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888729728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470636886.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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