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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8173483 | Method of manufacturing solar cell A method of manufacturing a solar cell includes forming a transparent conductive layer on a substrate by depositing a transparent conductive oxide under room temperature, crystallizing the transparent conductive layer by irradiating a laser beam to the transparent c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8088640 | Thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin films overlying glass substrates The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8084291 | Thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin films overlying glass substrates The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8084292 | Thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin films overlying glass substrates The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8076176 | Thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin films overlying glass substrates The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076175 | Method for making solar cell having crystalline silicon P-N homojunction and amorphous silicon heterojunctions for surface passivation A thin silicon solar cell is described. Specifically, the solar cell may be fabricated from a crystalline silicon wafer having a thickness of approximately 50 micrometers to 500 micrometers. The solar cell comprises a first region having a p-n homojunction, a second... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8071421 | Thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin films overlying glass substrates The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8071420 | Edge film removal process for thin film solar cell applications The present invention provides a method and apparatus for edge film stack removal process for fabricating photovoltaic devices. In one embodiment, a method for manufacturing solar cell devices on a substrate includes providing a substrate into a chemical vapor depos... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8067263 | Thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin films overlying glass substrates The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8043885 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor film and method of manufacturing photovoltaic element A method of manufacturing a semiconductor film capable of inhibiting the quality of a semiconductor film from destabilization is obtained. This method of manufacturing a semiconductor film includes steps of introducing source gas for a semiconductor, controlling the... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8030121 | Manufacture of photovoltaic devices A method and apparatus for depositing a film on a substrate includes subjecting material to an energy beam. ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030120 | Hybrid window layer for photovoltaic cells A novel photovoltaic solar cell and method of making the same are disclosed. The solar cell includes: at least one absorber layer which could either be a lightly doped layer or an undoped layer, and at least a doped window-layers which comprise at least two sub-wind... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7998785 | Film deposition of amorphous films with a graded bandgap by electron cyclotron resonance A method is described of forming a film of an amorphous material on a substrate (14) by deposition from a plasma. The substrate (14) is placed in an enclosure, a film precursor gas is introduced into the enclosure through pipes (20), and unreact... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7993954 | Thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin films overlying glass substrates The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7993955 | Thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin films overlying glass substrates The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7964438 | Method for forming a film with a graded bandgap by deposition of an amorphous material from a plasma A method is described of forming a film of an amorphous material on a substrate by deposition from a plasma. The substrate is placed in an enclosure, a film precursor gas is introduced into the enclosure, and unreacted and dissociated gas is extracted from the enclo... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7955891 | Thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and /or CIGS based thin films overlying glass substrates The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7951640 | Low-cost multi-junction solar cells and methods for their production Solar cells fabricated without gasification of metallurgical-grade silicon. The substrates are prepared by: melting metallurgical grade silicon in a furnace; solidifying the melted metallurgical grade silicon into an ingot; slicing the ingot to obtain a plurality of... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7932126 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof The area occupied by a photo-sensor element may be reduced and multiple elements may be integrated in a limited area so that the sensor element can have higher output and smaller size. Higher output and miniaturization are achieved by uniting a sensor element using ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7910399 | Thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin films overlying glass substrates The thermal management and method for large scale processing of CIS and/or CIGS based thin film overlaying glass substrates. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a copper indium diselenide semiconductor film. The method... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7888167 | Photoelectric conversion device and method for manufacturing the same To provide a photoelectric conversion device with improved photoelectric conversion characteristics and cost competitiveness. A photoelectric conversion device including a semiconductor junction has a semiconductor layer in which a needle-like crystal is made to gro... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7879644 | Hybrid window layer for photovoltaic cells A novel photovoltaic solar cell and method of making the same are disclosed. The solar cell includes: at least one absorber layer which could either be a lightly doped layer or an undoped layer, and at least a doped window-layers which comprise at least two sub-wind... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7871853 | Plasma doping method and apparatus employed in the same A plasma doping method and a plasma doping apparatus, having a superior in-plane uniformity of an amorphous layer formed on a sample surface, are provided. In the plasma doping method by which plasma is generated within a vacuum chamber, and impurity ions con... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7838326 | Methods of fabricating semiconductor device including phase change layer Provided are methods of fabricating a semiconductor device including a phase change layer. Methods may include forming a dielectric layer on a substrate, forming an opening in the dielectric layer and depositing, on the substrate having the opening, a phase change l... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7833826 | Film formation method, thin-film transistor and solar battery After a gate oxide film 10 has been formed on a silicon substrate G, a first step of forming a microcrystalline silicon film by high electron density plasma of an electron temperature of 2.0 eV or less and a second step of forming an ultra-microcrystalline si... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7807495 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor film and method of manufacturing photovoltaic element A method of manufacturing a semiconductor film capable of suppressing difficulty in temperature control of a catalytic wire is obtained. This method of manufacturing a semiconductor film includes steps of heating a catalytic wire to at least a prescribed temperature... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7795069 | Image sensor and method for manufacturing the same An image sensor includes a lower metal interconnection, an interlayer dielectric, a first substrate, a photodiode, an upper electrode and an amorphous silicon layer. The lower metal interconnection and the interlayer dielectric are formed over the first substrate in... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7632703 | Organic thin-film transistors Methods are disclosed for improving organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) performance by acid doping of the semiconducting layer. The semiconducting polymer comprising the semiconductor layer is doped with an acid, especially a Lewis acid, either during or after polym... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7608475 | Buffer layer for promoting electron mobility and thin film transistor having the same A buffer layer for promoting electron mobility. The buffer layer comprises amorphous silicon layer (a-Si) and an oxide-containing layer. The a-Si has high enough density that the particles in the substrate are prevented by the a-Si buffer layer from diffusing into t... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7442627 | Transparent conductive layer forming method, transparent conductive layer formed by the method, and material comprising the layer A transparent conductive layer forming method is disclosed which comprises the steps of introducing a reactive gas to a discharge space, exciting the reactive gas in a plasma state by discharge at atmospheric pressure or at approximately atmospheric pressure, and ex... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443721 | Semiconductor integrated device A semiconductor non volatile memory device capable of multiple write operations with high reliability includes memory cells. Each memory cell of the device has a first electrode, a second electrode, and an information storage section between the two electrodes. A se... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7435635 | Method for crystallizing semiconductor material A semiconductor material and a method for forming the same, said semiconductor material having produced by a process comprising melting a noncrystal semiconductor film containing therein carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen each at a concentration of 5×1019 atom... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7425491 | Nanowire transistor with surrounding gate One aspect of the present subject matter relates to a method for forming a transistor. According to an embodiment of the method, a pillar of amorphous semiconductor material is formed on a crystalline substrate, and a solid phase epitaxy process is performed to crys... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7393727 | Manufacturing method of thin-film transistor, thin-film transistor sheet, and electric circuit A thin-film transistor, a thin-film transistor sheet, an electric circuit, and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed, the method comprising the steps of forming a semiconductor layer by providing a semiconductive material on a substrate, b) forming an insulat... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7393715 | Manufacturing method for image pickup apparatus In an image pickup device, a step of forming an embedded plug includes a step of forming a connecting hole in the insulation film in which the embedded plug is to be formed, a metal layer deposition step of depositing a metal layer on the insulation film in which th... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7374985 | Laser irradiation apparatus and method for manufacturing semiconductor device The linear laser beam generally has a width of 1 mm or less, and it is necessary to adjust the optical system with high accuracy in order to form the laser beam having such a narrow width and having a homogeneous intensity distribution. The adjustment of the optical... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7361924 | Non-volatile memory element and production method thereof and storage memory arrangement A nonvolatile memory element and associated production methods and memory element arrangements are presented. The nonvolatile memory element has a changeover material and a first and second electrically conductive electrode present at the changeover material. To red... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361930 | Method for forming a multiple layer passivation film and a device incorporating the same A method of forming a multiple layer passivation film on a semiconductor device surface comprises placing a semiconductor device in a chemical vapor deposition reactor, introducing a nitrogen source into the reactor, introducing a carbon source into the reactor, dep... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359010 | Method for producing display device In a liquid crystal display device, a first substrate includes electrical wirings and a semiconductor integrated circuit which has TFTs and is connected electrically to the electrical wirings, and a second substrate includes a transparent conductive film on a surfac... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7351605 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device The number of masks is reduced in a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device that has a transistor and a photoelectric conversion element on an insulating surface. In a manufacturing method of the present invention, semiconductor layers functioning as a source... | 04/01/2008 |
