Highly efficient and reliable mechanically stacked multi-junction solar cells using advanced bonding method with conductive nanoparticle alignments

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 495-498

  Makita, Kikuo ^a   Mizuno, Hidenori ^a   Oshima, Ryuji ^a   Sugaya, Takeyoshi ^a   Komaki, Hironori ^a   Matsubara, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

bonding; GaAs; InP; mechanical stacking; multi junction solar cells; nanostructures; photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

BONDING; EFFICIENCY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TEMPERATURE; TESTING;

ACCELERATED AGING TEST; BONDING INTERFACES; CONDUCTIVE NANOPARTICLES; GAAS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MECHANICAL STACKING; PHOTOVOLTAIC; THERMAL CYCLING TEST;

MULTI-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84912060276     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2014.6924968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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