Modification of Triple Junction Solar Cells for Martian Surface Conditions

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Scott Endicter ◽  
Daniel Aiken ◽  
Paul Stella ◽  
Nick Mardesich
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D. Lillington ◽  
H. Cotal ◽  
J. Ermer ◽  
D. Friedman ◽  
T. Moriarty ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 726
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Ray-Hua Horng ◽  
Yu-Cheng Kao ◽  
Apoorva Sood ◽  
Po-Liang Liu ◽  
Wei-Cheng Wang ◽  
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In this study, a mechanical stacking technique has been used to bond together the GaInP/GaAs and poly-silicon (Si) solar wafers. A GaInP/GaAs/poly-Si triple-junction solar cell has mechanically stacked using a low-temperature bonding process which involves micro metal In balls on a metal line using a high-optical-transmission spin-coated glue material. Current–voltage measurements of the GaInP/GaAs/poly-Si triple-junction solar cells have carried out at room temperature both in the dark and under 1 sun with 100 mW/cm2 power density using a solar simulator. The GaInP/GaAs/poly-Si triple-junction solar cell has reached an efficiency of 24.5% with an open-circuit voltage of 2.68 V, a short-circuit current density of 12.39 mA/cm2, and a fill-factor of 73.8%. This study demonstrates a great potential for the low-temperature micro-metal-ball mechanical stacking technique to achieve high conversion efficiency for solar cells with three or more junctions.


2020 ◽  
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Ke Xiao ◽  
Jin Wen ◽  
Qiaolei Han ◽  
Renxing Lin ◽  
Yuan Gao ◽  
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Min Qian ◽  
Xiaojun Mao ◽  
Min Wu ◽  
Zhangyi Cao ◽  
Qing Liu ◽  
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Yongkun Sin ◽  
Stephen LaLumondiere ◽  
Brendan Foran ◽  
William Lotshaw ◽  
Steven C. Moss ◽  
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ABSTRACTMulti-junction III-V solar cells are based on a triple-junction design that employs a 1eV bottom junction grown on the GaAs substrate with a GaAs middle junction and a lattice-matched InGaP top junction. There are two possible approaches implementing the triple-junction design. The first approach is to utilize lattice-matched dilute nitride materials such as InGaAsN(Sb) and the second approach is to utilize lattice-mismatched InGaAs employing a metamorphic buffer layer (MBL). Both approaches have a potential to achieve high performance triple-junction solar cells. A record efficiency of 43.5% was achieved from multi-junction solar cells using the first approach [1] and the solar cells using the second approach yielded an efficiency of 41.1% [2]. We studied carrier dynamics and defects in bulk 1eV InGaAsNSb materials and InGaAs layers with MBL grown by MOVPE for multi-junction solar cells.


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