• DocumentCode
    1168277
  • Title

    Correlation of Electron Radiation Induced-Damage in GaAs Solar Cells

  • Author

    Warner, Jeffrey H. ; Messenger, Scott R. ; Walters, Robert J. ; Summers, Geoffrey P. ; Lorentzen, Justin R. ; Wilt, David M. ; Smith, Mark A.

  • Author_Institution
    Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC
  • Volume
    53
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    1988
  • Lastpage
    1994
  • Abstract
    GaAs solar cells with different structures and polarities were irradiated with 1 and 5 MeV electrons. The energy dependence of the electron damage coefficients for the photocurrent, photovoltage, and maximum power were found to vary approximately linearly with NIEL in contrast to what has been found for other GaAs cells
  • Keywords
    electron beam effects; gallium arsenide; losses; photoconductivity; solar cells; GaAs; electron displacement damage; electron radiation damage; nonionizing energy loss; photocurrent; photovoltage; solar cell irradiation; Degradation; Distributed control; Electrons; Energy loss; Gallium arsenide; Laboratories; Photovoltaic cells; Protons; Semiconductor materials; Solids; Damage correlation; GaAs solar cells; displacement damage; electron displacement damage; nonionizing energy loss (NIEL); radiation damage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.2006.877877
  • Filename
    1684048