Performance of high-temperature survivable gallium arsenide concentrator cells
| Autor: | R.P. Gale, Mark B. Spitzer, Jason E. Dingle, R. Morrison |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Fabrication
Materials science business.industry Thermal resistance Energy conversion efficiency Heterojunction Air mass (solar energy) Concentrator Suns in alchemy Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials Gallium arsenide chemistry.chemical_compound Optics chemistry Optoelectronics Electrical and Electronic Engineering business |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 38:1787-1791 |
| ISSN: | 0018-9383 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/16.119015 |
| Popis: | A report is presented on the fabrication and testing of survivable GaAs/AlGaAs double-heterostructure concentrator cells intended for space operation. Air mass zero (AMO) efficiencies of over 22% at 25 suns have been obtained. These cells are designed to survive thermal excursions to temperatures exceeding 600 degrees C without significant change in efficiency. It is found that the change in conversion efficiency is less than 10%, even after 1 h at 650 degrees C, and that the decrease in efficiency is only about 10% after 25 min at 700 degrees C. The cells continue to function after enduring 820 degrees C for 25 min. Details of the testing are reported. > |
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