Thermal Stability of GaAs Solar Cells for High Temperature Applications

Yukun Sun; Joseph Faucher; Daehwan Jung; Michelle Vaisman; Clay McPheeters; Paul Sharps; Emmett Perl; John Simon; Myles Steiner; Daniel Friedman; Minjoo Larry Lee

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2016.7750068

Thermal Stability of GaAs Solar Cells for High Temperature Applications

Yukun Sun, Joseph Faucher, Daehwan Jung, Michelle Vaisman, Clay McPheeters, Paul Sharps, Emmett Perl, John Simon, Myles Steiner, Daniel Friedman, Minjoo Larry Lee

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Abstract

The characteristics of GaAs solar cells after 200 hours of annealing at 400-450 °C are reported. The room-temperature reflectivity and external quantum efficiency (EQE) are unchanged after such heat treatments, and peak EQE values of 90% are observed both before and after. At an operating temperature of 400 °C, the performance of annealed cells was only slightly worse than cells that had not undergone any annealing; Voc = 0.55 V and FF = 66% were demonstrated for annealed cells tested at 400 °C under strong optical injection. These results constitute a promising first step towards photovoltaic applications that demand stable operation at elevated temperatures.

Original language	American English
Pages	2385-2388
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7750068 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7750068
State	Published - 18 Nov 2016
Event	43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016 - Portland, United States Duration: 5 Jun 2016 → 10 Jun 2016

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Conference	43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	5/06/16 → 10/06/16

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GaAs
solar cells
thermal stability

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Sun, Y., Faucher, J., Jung, D., Vaisman, M., McPheeters, C., Sharps, P., Perl, E., Simon, J., Steiner, M., Friedman, D., & Lee, M. L. (2016). Thermal Stability of GaAs Solar Cells for High Temperature Applications. 2385-2388. Paper presented at 43rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2016, Portland, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7750068, https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2016.7750068

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