A brief review of high efficiency III-V solar cells for space application

J Li, A Aierken, Y Liu, Y Zhuang, X Yang, JH Mo… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The demands for space solar cells are continuously increasing with the rapid development
of space technologies and complex space missions. The space solar cells are facing more …

Progress and challenges for next-generation high-efficiency multijunction solar cells

DJ Friedman - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 2010 - Elsevier
Multijunction solar cells are the most efficient solar cells ever developed with demonstrated
efficiencies above 40%, far in excess of the performance of any conventional single-junction …

Multi-junction solar cells paving the way for super high-efficiency

M Yamaguchi, F Dimroth, JF Geisz… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In order to realize a clean energy society by using renewable energies, high-performance
solar cells are a very attractive proposition. The development of high-performance solar cells …

Solar cell generations over 40% efficiency

RR King, D Bhusari, D Larrabee, XQ Liu… - Progress in …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Multijunction III‐V concentrator cells of several different types have demonstrated solar
conversion efficiency over 40% since 2006, and represent the only third‐generation …

A review of ultrahigh efficiency III-V semiconductor compound solar cells: multijunction tandem, lower dimensional, photonic up/down conversion and plasmonic …

K Tanabe - Energies, 2009 - mdpi.com
Solar cells are a promising renewable, carbon-free electric energy resource to address the
fossil fuel shortage and global warming. Energy conversion efficiencies around 40% have …

35.8% space and 38.8% terrestrial 5J direct bonded cells

PT Chiu, DC Law, RL Woo, SB Singer… - 2014 IEEE 40th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spectrolab has fabricated a direct semiconductor bonded space solar cell with an efficiency
of 35.8% under the AM0 space spectrum. Using a similar technology, Spectrolab has …

Direct semiconductor bonded 5J cell for space and terrestrial applications

PT Chiu, DC Law, RL Woo, SB Singer… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spectrolab has demonstrated a 2.2/1.7/1.4/1.05/0.73 eV 5J cell with an efficiency of 37.8%
under 1 sun AM1. 5G spectrum and 35.1% efficiency for 1 sun AM0. The top three junctions …

GaSb‐based solar cells for full solar spectrum energy harvesting

MP Lumb, S Mack, KJ Schmieder… - Advanced energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a multijunction solar cell is developed on a GaSb substrate that can efficiently
convert the long‐wavelength photons typically lost in a multijunction solar cell into electricity …

[HTML][HTML] Bandgap engineering in III-nitrides with boron and group V elements: Toward applications in ultraviolet emitters

R Kudrawiec, D Hommel - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
A key material system for opto-and high-power electronics are III-nitrides. Their functionality
can be expanded when bandgap engineering is extended beyond common materials such …

III-V compound semiconductors: Growth and structures

TF Kuech - Progress in crystal growth and characterization of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The semiconductors formed from group 13 metals and from group 15 anions, referred to as
the III-V semiconductors, have found use in a broad range of technologies. Their versatility …