Pushing inverted metamorphic multijunction solar cells toward higher efficiency at realistic operating conditions

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages

  France, Ryan M ^a   Geisz, John F ^a   Steiner, Myles A ^a   Friedman, Daniel J ^a   Ward, J Scott ^a   Olson, Jerry M ^a   Olavarria, Waldo ^a   Young, Michelle ^a   Duda, Anna ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration; material quality; multijunction (MJ) solar cells; temperature

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CELL OPERATING TEMPERATURE; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; LATTICE-MISMATCHED; MATERIAL QUALITY; MULTIJUNCTION; OPERATING CONDITION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRIPLE JUNCTION (3J);

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84891279935     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/pvsc-vol2.2012.6656740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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