The constellation of satellites to be launched in the next few years to provide rapid global access to information needs low-cost and lightweight solar arrays. Multijunction thin-film amorphous silicon (a-Si) alloy solar cells deposited on lightweight and flexible substrates are ideal to meet this challenge. a-Si alloy is radiation hard, and has superior high temperature performance. We present results on fabrication of a-Si alloy solar cells on 0.5-mil-thick stainless steel using a low-cost production technology to achieve high efficiency under AM0 condition and their space qualification.


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    Title :

    Low Cost and Lightweight Amorphous Silicon Alloy Solar Array for Space Application


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:
    Banerjee, A. (author) / Boelens, F. J. (author) / Oomen, G. (author) / Call, J. (author) / Yang, J. (author) / Nath, P. (author) / Guha, S. (author) / Glatfelter, T. (author)

    Conference:

    34th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference ; 1999



    Publication date :

    1999-08-02




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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