摘要:
A system for generating electrical power from solar radiation utilizing a III-V compound multijunction semiconductor solar cell; a concentrator for focusing sunlight on the solar cell; and a heat spreader connected to the solar cell for cooling the cell. The solar cell is preferably an inverted metamorphic multijunction solar cell.
摘要:
A system for generating electrical power from solar radiation utilizing a thin film III-V compound multijunction semiconductor solar cell mounted on a support in a non-planar configuration.
摘要:
A system for generating electrical power from solar radiation utilizing a thin film III-V compound multijunction semiconductor solar cell mounted on a support in a non-planar configuration.
摘要:
A solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate and a sequence of semiconductor layers disposed over the substrate. The sequence of semiconductor layers includes a semiconductor window layer. The solar cell also includes a semiconductor silicon-containing cap layer over the window layer. The cap layer is spatially separated from the window layer by a semiconductor barrier layer that either includes no silicon or has a silicon concentration that is significantly lower than the silicon concentration of the cap layer.
摘要:
A solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate and a sequence of semiconductor layers disposed over the substrate. The sequence of semiconductor layers includes a semiconductor window layer. The solar cell also includes a semiconductor silicon-containing cap layer over the window layer. The cap layer is spatially separated from the window layer by a semiconductor barrier layer that either includes no silicon or has a silicon concentration that is significantly lower than the silicon concentration of the cap layer.
摘要:
A system for generating electrical power from solar radiation utilizing a III-V compound multijunction semiconductor solar cell; a concentrator for focusing sunlight on the solar cell, including a concave trough-shaped reflector; and a heat spreader connected to the solar cell for cooling the cell.
摘要:
A multijunction solar cell including first and second solar cells on a substrate with an integral bypass diode having an intrinsic layer and operative for passing current when the multijunction solar cell is shaded. In one embodiment, a vertical sequence of solar cells are epitaxially grown on a first portion of the substrate, and the layers of the diode are epitaxially grown on a second portion of the substrate with the layers of the bypass diode being deposited subsequent to the layers of the top solar cell.
摘要:
A solar cell array including a first solar cell with an integral bypass diode and an adjacent second solar cell and two discrete metal interconnection members coupling the anode of the bypass diode of the first cell with the anode of the second solar cell.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing a mounted solar cell by providing a metallic flexible film having a predetermined coefficient of thermal expansion; and attaching the semiconductor solar cell to the metallic film, the coefficient of thermal expansion of the semiconductor body closely matching the predetermined coefficient of thermal expansion of the metallic film.
摘要:
A method of forming a multijunction solar cell comprising an upper subcell, a middle subcell, and a lower subcell by providing a first substrate for the epitaxial growth of semiconductor material; forming a first solar subcell on said substrate having a first band gap; forming a second solar subcell over said first subcell having a second band gap smaller than said first band gap; forming a grading interlayer over said second subcell having a third band gap larger than said second band gap; forming a third solar subcell having a fourth band gap smaller than said second band gap such that said third subcell is lattice mismatched with respect to said second subcell; and etching a via from the top of the third subcell to the substrate to enable both anode and cathode contacts to be placed on the backside of the solar cell.