Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Photoelectric – Panel or array
Patent
1993-04-08
1995-04-18
Weisstuch, Aaron
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Photoelectric
Panel or array
136252, 136262, 437 5, 437107, 257104, 257615, H01L 3106, H01L 3118, H01L 310304
Patent
active
054074916
ABSTRACT:
A monolithic, tandem photovoltaic device is provided having an indium gallium arsenide tunnel junction lattice-matched to adjoining subcells and having high peak current densities and low electrical resistance. A method is provided for relatively low-temperature epitaxial growth of a subcell over the tunnel junction at temperatures which leave intact the desirable characteristics of the tunnel junction.
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Bensaoula Abdelhak
Freundlich Alexandre
Ignatiev Alex
Vilela Mauro F.
University of Houston
Weisstuch Aaron
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