TY - JOUR
T1 - Flight performance of InP solar cells
AU - Pearsall, Nicola
AU - Piszczor Jr., Michael
AU - Goodbody, C.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - The paper presents performance data for InP cells on the UoSAT-5 experiment after over three years in orbit (an equivalent radiation dose for Si cells of about 1014 e/ cm2). It is shown that the anomalous Voc losses observed for the ITO/InP cells after 500 days appear to have stabilised. Changes in Voc and Isc for the InP homojunction cells are as expected at the radiation dose received. Some of the cells have shown fill factor losses of 1-2% which have been attributed to the early stage of development for the contacting and bonding techniques. However, allowing for the contacting problems, the InP cells are behaving in agreement with the expectation of superior radiation resistance when compared to the GaAs and Si cells on the experiment.
AB - The paper presents performance data for InP cells on the UoSAT-5 experiment after over three years in orbit (an equivalent radiation dose for Si cells of about 1014 e/ cm2). It is shown that the anomalous Voc losses observed for the ITO/InP cells after 500 days appear to have stabilised. Changes in Voc and Isc for the InP homojunction cells are as expected at the radiation dose received. Some of the cells have shown fill factor losses of 1-2% which have been attributed to the early stage of development for the contacting and bonding techniques. However, allowing for the contacting problems, the InP cells are behaving in agreement with the expectation of superior radiation resistance when compared to the GaAs and Si cells on the experiment.
U2 - 10.1109/WCPEC.1994.521644
DO - 10.1109/WCPEC.1994.521644
M3 - Article
SN - 0160-8371
VL - 2
SP - 2137
EP - 2140
JO - Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
JF - Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
ER -