Reliability of Ⅲ-Ⅴ concentrator solar cells

摘要

Ⅲ-ⅴ concentrator solar cells are starting to be commercialized. However, no complete studies about their reliability have been carried out. A review about both the accelerated ageing tests and real time tests developed till now is presented. A proposal about the required tests is also done. In this stage, the tests show that Ⅲ-ⅴ concentrator cells are robust devices with MTTFs well over the expected ones (30 years).