Printed Assemblies of Microscale Triple-Junction (3J) Inverted Metamorphic (IMM) GaInP/GaAs/InGaAs Solar Cells

John Geisz; Daniel Friedman; Boju Gai; Jongseung Yoon

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366384

Printed Assemblies of Microscale Triple-Junction (3J) Inverted Metamorphic (IMM) GaInP/GaAs/InGaAs Solar Cells

John Geisz, Daniel Friedman, Boju Gai, Jongseung Yoon

Chemistry and Nanoscience

University of Southern California

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Abstract

Transfer printing of microscale devices has been shown to be a manufacturable pathway to low-profile, low cost, high concentration photovoltaic modules, where extremely high efficiency solar cells are desirable to achieve competitive costs. Inverted metamorphic multijunction (IMM) solar cells represent a promising platform for ultrahigh efficiency concentrator photovoltaic systems with a clear pathway to 50% efficiency. While transfer printing of microscale solar cell devices has been demonstrated with traditional upright solar cell structures, IMM structures present additional processing challenges. We demonstrate, for the first time, the transfer printing of fully-functional microscale triple-junction (3J) IMM solar cells.

Original language	American English
Pages	549-551
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366384
State	Published - 2018
Event	2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC) - Washington, D.C. Duration: 25 Jun 2017 → 30 Jun 2017

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Conference	2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC)
City	Washington, D.C.
Period	25/06/17 → 30/06/17

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NREL/CP-5900-68862

Keywords

III-V
inverted metamorphic multijunction
photovoltaics
transfer printing

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Printed Assemblies of Microscale Triple-Junction (3J) Inverted Metamorphic (IMM) GaInP/GaAs/InGaAs Solar Cells

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