Fabrication of high-efficiency III-V on silicon multijunction solar cells by direct metal interconnect

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1149-1155

  Yang, Jingfeng ^a   Peng, Zhilin ^a   Cheong, Dan ^a   Kleiman, Rafael ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Current matching; III V on Si; multijunction (MJ) solar cell; photovoltaic (PV); solar spectrum

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; SILICON;

CURRENT MATCHING; HYBRID INTEGRATION; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; MULTIJUNCTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SOLAR SPECTRUM; THERMAL RELIABILITY; TRIPLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84903265628     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2313225     Document Type: Article

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