InAlAs solar cell on a GaAs substrate employing a graded InxGa1-xAs-InP metamorphic buffer layer
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2013
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Mathews, Ian P.
O'Mahony, Donagh
GocaliĆska, Agnieszka M.
Manganaro, Marina
Pelucchi, Emanuele
Schmidt, Michael
Morrison, Alan P.
Corbett, Brian M.
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Single junction In0.52Al0.48As solar cells have been grown on a (100) GaAs substrate by employing a 1 mu m thick compositionally graded InxGa1-xAs/InP metamorphic buffer layer to accommodate the 3.9% mismatch. Cells processed from the 0.8 mu m thick InAlAs layers had photovoltaic conversion efficiency of 5% with an open circuit voltage of 0.72 V, short-circuit current density of 9.3 mA/cm(2), and a fill factor of 74.5% under standard air mass 1.5 illumination. The threading dislocation density was estimated to be 3 x 10(8) cm(-2). (C) 2013 American Institute of Physics. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4789521)
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Solar cells , III-V semiconductors , Lattice constants , Gold , Diffusion
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Mathews, I., O'Mahony, D., Gocalinska, A., Manganaro, M., Pelucchi, E., Schmidt, M., Morrison, A. P. and Corbett, B. (2013) 'InAlAs solar cell on a GaAs substrate employing a graded InxGa1âxAsâInP metamorphic buffer layer', Applied Physics Letters, 102(3), pp. 033906. doi: 10.1063/1.4789521
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© 2013 American Institute of Physics.This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. The following article appeared in Mathews, I., O'Mahony, D., Gocalinska, A., Manganaro, M., Pelucchi, E., Schmidt, M., Morrison, A. P. and Corbett, B. (2013) 'InAlAs solar cell on a GaAs substrate employing a graded InxGa1âxAsâInP metamorphic buffer layer', Applied Physics Letters, 102(3), pp. 033906 and may be found at http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4789521