Comparative Performance Of Silicon And Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells On A High Altitude Sounding Rocket

Norman L Thomas; Dean M. Chisel

doi:10.1117/12.954933

15 February 1977 Comparative Performance Of Silicon And Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells On A High Altitude Sounding Rocket

Norman L Thomas, Dean M. Chisel

Proceedings Volume 0085, Solar Energy Utilization II; (1977) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.954933
Event: 20th Annual Technical Symposium, 1976, San Diego, United States

Abstract

The use of sounding rockets for calibrating solar cells offers two principal advantages: (1) there is no effect due to the terrestrial atmosphere, and (2) the cells are recoverable immediately after the calibration. On March 30, 1976, twenty-nine n/p silicon and four p/n gallium arsenide solar cells were calibrated in space and successfully recovered from a NASA-Astrobee F rocket that reached a peak altitude of 230 km. Approximately 75 IV characteristic curves were generated for thirty-two of the cells to an accuracy of Ã‚Â±0.2 ma and Ã‚Â±0.2 mV. The short-circuit currents for these cells are presented for AMO and AM1.

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Norman L Thomas and Dean M. Chisel "Comparative Performance Of Silicon And Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells On A High Altitude Sounding Rocket", Proc. SPIE 0085, Solar Energy Utilization II, (15 February 1977); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.954933

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