Thin-film silicon solar cells for space applications: radiation hardness and applications for an integrated Solant (solar cell-antenna) module

Author

Kuendig, J. ; Goetz, M. ; Niquille, X. ; Shah, A. ; Vaccaro, S. ; Mosig, J. ; Gerlach, L. ; de Maagt, P. ; Fernandez, E.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microtechnol., Neuchatel Univ., Switzerland

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1079

Lastpage

1082

Abstract

A new device called “Solant” (for SOLar cell-ANTenna) is presented in this paper. It is a combination of thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells and flat printed antennas. A proton irradiation campaign has also been carried out on a series of n-i-p amorphous and p-i-n micromorph [microcrystalline (μc-Si:H) and amorphous (a-Si:H)] silicon tandem solar cells. The effect of thermal annealing on solar cells degraded by proton irradiation is investigated

Keywords

amorphous semiconductors; annealing; elemental semiconductors; hydrogen; proton effects; radiation hardening (electronics); semiconductor doping; silicon; solar cells; Si:H; Solant; flat printed antennas; integrated Solant module; proton irradiation; radiation hardness; solar cell-antenna; space power applications; tandem solar cells; thermal annealing; thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells; thin-film silicon solar cells; Amorphous materials; Amorphous silicon; Antenna arrays; PIN photodiodes; Photovoltaic cells; Protons; Prototypes; Satellites; Semiconductor thin films; Slot antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2000. Conference Record of the Twenty-Eighth IEEE

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5772-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2000.916074

Filename

916074