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- Title
Balloon and Lear jet testing of SCARLET modules and cells
- Authors
Murphy, D. M.; Anspaugh, B. E.; O'Neill, M. J.; Brinker, D.; Eskenazi, M. I.
- Abstract
This paper presents test results from SCARLET (solar concentrator array with refractive linear element technology) experiments performed on several Lewis Research Center Lear jet flights and two JPL balloonflights. The tests were performed in support of the BMDO-sponsored SCARLET II program, which is building a 2-6-kW SCARLET to supply the primary power for the JPL New Millennium Deep Space 1 Mission. The experiments involve TECSTAR dual-junction GaInP2/GaAs/Ge cells flown bare and under two different types of SCARLET lenses. The twotypes of lenses tested were a developmental design consisting of a monolithic fluoroplastic and the current baseline flight design consisting of ceria-doped microsheet and silicone. Measured lens and total module efficiencies are presented and the flight data are compared tovarious solar simulator test results.
- Subjects
PHOTOVOLTAIC power generation
- Publication
Progress in Photovoltaics, 1997, Vol 5, Issue 6, p393
- ISSN
1062-7995
- Publication type
Article