Design Flexibility of Ultrahigh Efficiency Four-Junction Inverted Metamorphic Solar Cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 578-583

  France, Ryan M ^a   Geisz, John F ^a   Garcia, Ivan ^a,b   Steiner, Myles A ^a   McMahon, William E ^a   Friedman, Daniel J ^a   Moriarty, Tom E ^a   Osterwald, Carl ^a   Ward, J Scott ^a   Duda, Anna ^a   Young, Michelle ^a   Olavarria, Waldo J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Four junction solar cells; Inverted metamorphic multijunction

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; DESIGN; ENERGY GAP; TEMPERATURE;

ANTI REFLECTIVE COATINGS; COMPOSITIONALLY GRADED BUFFERS; DESIGN FLEXIBILITY; DEVICE OPTIMIZATION; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PEAK EFFICIENCY; SERIES-CONNECTED;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84949950623     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2015.2505182     Document Type: Article

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