Recent, rapid advances in a variety of solar cell technologies offer the potential for significantly enhancing, or enabling entirely new, mission capabilities. Thin film solar cells are of particular interest in that regard. A review is provided of the status of those thin film cell technologies of interest for space applications, and the issues to be resolved before mission planners can consider them. A short summary is also given of recent developments in concentrator and multijunction space solar cell and array technology.
Document ID: 19910021904. Accession ID: 91N31218. NAS 1.15:104505. NASA-TM-104505. E-6366. European Space Power Conference; 3-6 Sep. 1991; Florence; Italy.