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PV has traditionally been used for electric power in space. Solar panels on spacecraft are usually the sole source of power to run the sensors, active heating and cooling, and communications. Photovoltaics for Space: Key Issues, Missions and Alternative Technologies provides an overview of the challenges to efficiently produce solar power in near-Earth space and beyond: the materials and device architectures that have been developed to surmount these environmental and mission-specific barriers. The book is organized in four sections consisting of detailed introductory and background content as well as a collection of in-depth space environment, materials processing, technology, and mission overviews by international experts. This book will detail how to design and optimize a space power system's performance for power-to-weight ratio, effectiveness at end of operational life (EOL) compared to beginning of operational life (BOL), and specific mission objectives and goals.
This book outlines the knowledge required for practitioners and advanced students interested in learning about the background, materials, devices, environmental challenges, missions, and future for photovoltaics for space exploration.
Contents
PART ONE Introduction: technologies, issues, and applications
1. An introduction to space photovoltaics: technologies, issues, and missions
2. Space solar arrays and spacecraft charging
3. Air mass zero (AM0) studies and solar cell calibration
4. Space applications of III-V single- and multijunction solar cells
5. Perovskite solar cells: background and prospects for space power applications
6. Photovoltaics and nuclear energy conversion for space power: background and issues
PART TWO Materials: focus on new technologies and advanced processing
7. Perovskite solar cells on the horizon for space power systems
8. Thermophotovoltaic energy conversion in space
9. Thin-film materials for space power applications
10. Inverted lattice-matched GaInP/GaAs/GaInNAsSb triple-junction solar cells: epitaxial lift-off thin-film devices and potential space applications
11. Summary of the design principles of betavoltaics and space applications
PART THREE Near earth and deep-space missions
12. Solar array designs for deep space science missions
13. Lunar science based on Apollo solar cell measurements
14. Space photovoltaics for extreme high-temperature missions
15. Space photovoltaic concentrators for outer planet and near-Sun missions using ultralight Fresnel lenses
16. Technological relevance and photovoltaic production potential of high-quality silica deposits on Mars
17. Space nuclear power: radioisotopes, technologies, and the future
