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Article: Powering up.(Spectrolab Inc. developing efficient solar cells)(Brief Article)
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- Design News
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- November 6, 2000
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SYLMAR, GA--Flying high above the earth are thousands of satellites providing the necessities of daily communication. With the proliferation of cell phones and the Internet, onboard power requirements have become even more demanding. "We have now created space solar cells with an efficiency up to 29%," says David Lillington, acting President of Spectrolab, a division of Hughes Electronics. "By increasing the absorption from single junction to multi-junction arrays we have been able ...