Analysis of temperature coefficients for III-V multi-junction concentrator cells

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 515-524

  Siefer, Gerald ^a   Bett, Andreas W ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

concentrators; mult junction cells; temperature dependence

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GALLIUM; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CONCENTRATION LEVELS; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DUAL-JUNCTION CELLS; JUNCTION CELLS; MULTI-JUNCTION CONCENTRATOR CELLS; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRIPLE JUNCTION CELLS;

MULTI-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84901365602     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2285     Document Type: Article

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