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24 August 2009 Performance of Amonix multijunction arrays
Vahan Garboushian, Geoffrey S. Kinsey, Kenneth Stone, Clark Crawford, Robert Gordon
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Proceedings Volume 7407, High and Low Concentrator Systems for Solar Electric Applications IV; 740703 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826624
Event: SPIE Solar Energy + Technology, 2009, San Diego, California, United States
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After twenty years of commercial deployments of concentrator photovoltaic systems using silicon cells, Amonix has built a new generation of systems designed for III-V multijunction cells. The resulting 7th-generation systems yield a considerable performance dividend in the field-proven system design. The first systems, operating in Las Vegas, NV, achieve AC efficiencies in excess of 25%. Detailed modeling of the cell and system parameters provides a prediction of energy generation that is within 3% of the measured energy after seven months of operation. The predicted annual yield in this location is over 2600 kW-hr/kW.
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Vahan Garboushian, Geoffrey S. Kinsey, Kenneth Stone, Clark Crawford, and Robert Gordon "Performance of Amonix multijunction arrays", Proc. SPIE 7407, High and Low Concentrator Systems for Solar Electric Applications IV, 740703 (24 August 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826624
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Solar energy
Lanthanum
Systems modeling
Silicon
Atmospheric modeling
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Performance modeling
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