Performance analysis of CuInSe₂ and GaAs solar cellsaboard the LIPS-III flight Boeing lightweight panel

摘要

I-V curve analysis was performed on monolithically seriesconnected CIS cell strings and GaAs solar cells mounted on the Boeinglightweight panel aboard the NRL LIPS-III satellite flight experiment.The analysis was performed on data from three different CIS solar cellstrings. Voc, Isc, FF, and Pmax values obtained using several methodsare discussed and temperature coefficients (TC) values for each arecalculated from the on-orbit I-V data. Conclusions pertaining to therelative degradation values for each cell type are presented. The CISsolar cell string with no cover glass shows the least degradation with<2.0% loss of power per year in orbit