Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Photoelectric – Panel or array
Patent
1986-11-12
1988-06-28
Weisstuch, Aaron
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Photoelectric
Panel or array
136262, H01L 2502
Patent
active
047536837
ABSTRACT:
A solar cell array utilizing geometrically alternating, laterally disposed N-on-P and P-on-N gallium arsenide solar cells is disclosed. Improved array efficiency is achieved by placing adjacent solar cells in substantial contact with each other and eliminating bus connections on the top surfaces. This is accomplished by providing the solar cells with a lateral cross-sectional configuration of a parallelogram with the N-on-P solar cells slanted in one lateral direction and the P-on-N solar cells slanted in the opposite direction. The top surfaces of adjacent, contacting solar cells are electrically connected by extending a connector grid across the top surfaces. Strip connectors are used to join the bases of adjacent solar cells.
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Ellion M. Edmund
Wolff George
Hughes Aircraft Company
Karambelas A. W.
Meltzer M. J.
Mitchell S. M.
Weisstuch Aaron
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