First flight demonstration of glass-type space solar sheet

Author

Shimazaki, Kazunori ; Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki ; Takahashi, Masaharu ; Imaizumi, Masayuki ; Murashima, Mai ; Takahashi, Y. ; Toyota, Hiroyuki ; Kukita, Akio ; Ohshima, T. ; Sato, Shin-ichiro ; Takamoto, Tatsuya ; Kusawake, Hiroaki

Author_Institution

Tsukuba Space Center, Japan Aerosp. Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

8-13 June 2014

Firstpage

2149

Lastpage

2154

Abstract

The electrical performance of a glass-type space solar sheet (G-SSS) was demonstrated in space. G-SSS comprises InGaP/GaAs dual-junction and InGaP/GaAs/InGaAs triple-junction solar cells. It is lightweight solar generation sheet, less than 0.5mm thick. It is mounted on the “HISAKI” (SPRINT-A) small scientific satellite, which was launched on September 14, 2013. The initial flight data were successfully acquired and this flight demonstration was a world-first experiment for G-SSS using III-V multi-junction thin-film solar cells. The cells demonstrated superior performance and the electrical outputs matched the flight prediction.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; glass; indium compounds; solar cells; wide band gap semiconductors; G-SSS; HISAKI; III-V multijunction thin-film solar cells; InGaP-GaAs-InGaAs; SPRINT-A; dual-junction solar cells; flight demonstration; glass-type space solar sheet; lightweight solar generation sheet; small scientific satellite; triple-junction solar cells; Degradation; Gallium arsenide; Glass; Orbits; Photovoltaic cells; Space vehicles; Vibrations; IMM3J; flight data; flight demonstration; multi-junction solar cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925350

Filename

6925350