A space vehicle comprising: a housing having a first side and an opposite side, and an axis; a first flexible elongated, rectangular sheet including an array of transducer devices including multijunction solar cells mounted on, and extending from a surface of the first side of the housing, and a second flexible elongated, rectangular sheet including an array of transducer devices including multijunction solar cells mounted on and extending from a surface of the second side of the housing that extend radially from the housing and orthogonal to the axis of the housing in a direction opposite to that of the first flexible elongated rectangular sheet, wherein the selection of the composition of the subcells and their band gap of the multijunction solar cells maximizes the efficiency of the solar cell at the end-of-life.
SPACE VEHICLES INCLUDING MULTIJUNCTION METAMORPHIC SOLAR CELLS
RAUMFAHRZEUGE MIT METAMORPHEN MEHRFACHÜBERGANGSSOLARZELLEN
VÉHICULES SPATIAUX COMPRENANT DES CELLULES SOLAIRES MÉTAMORPHIQUES À JONCTIONS MULTIPLES
2023-08-02
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | H01L Halbleiterbauelemente , SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES / B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS / H02S GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRA-RED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, E.G. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES , Erzeugung elektrischer Energie durch Umwandlung von Infrarot-Strahlung, sichtbarem Licht oder ultraviolettem Licht, z.B. unter Verwendung von Photovoltaik [PV]-Modulen |
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