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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183084 | Methods of manufacturing solid state image pickup devices A method of manufacturing a solid state image pickup device having a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion region for converting light into a signal charge, and a plurality of wiring layers including first and second wiring layers. The method... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8148194 | Solar cell, manufacturing method thereof and electrode material There is presented a solar cell comprising a semiconductor substrate of one conductivity-type, a layer of the opposite conductivity-type provided on a surface side of the semiconductor substrate, a surface electrode formed thereon, and a backside electrode formed on... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148195 | Process for producing a contact area of an electronic component A process for forming at least one local contact area of a substrate of an electrical component for contacting the contact area with a connector, in which the substrate, on the contact side, is provided with a sintered porous metal layer. To make available a mechani... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148196 | Semiconductor light emitting device This invention discloses a light emitting semiconductor device including a light-emitting structure and an external optical element. The optical element couples to the light-emitting structure circumferentially. In addition, the refractive index of the external opti... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143090 | Method of fabricating photo sensor A method of fabricating a photo sensor includes the following steps. First, a substrate is provided, having a conductive layer, a buffer dielectric layer, a patterned semiconductor layer, a dielectric layer, and a planarization layer disposed thereon from bottom to ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8129216 | Method of manufacturing solar cell with doping patterns and contacts A method of manufacturing a solar cell. The method includes the steps of providing a substrate, applying a first dopant to a first surface, applying a second dopant to a second surface, covering the doped first surface with a hard mask, applying a third dopant to th... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8119444 | Method for manufacturing the image sensor An image sensor and a method of manufacturing an image sensor. An image sensor may include a semiconductor substrate which may include a readout circuitry. An image sensor may include an interlayer dielectric over a semiconductor substrate, and/or a first metal patt... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119443 | Method of manufacturing image sensor having ions implanted into photodiode layer to control contact hole shape Provided is a method in which a photodiode layer is formed on a metal interconnection layer, and a hard mask layer is formed on the photodiode layer. Then, a photoresist pattern is formed on the hard mask layer to define a contact hole region, and a first hole is fo... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8110431 | Ion implanted selective emitter solar cells with in situ surface passivation Solar cells and methods for their manufacture are disclosed. An example method may include providing a p-type doped silicon substrate and introducing n-type dopant to a first and second region of the front surface of the substrate by ion implantation so that the sec... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8105869 | Method of manufacturing a silicon-based semiconductor device by essentially electrical means Proposed is the method for forming selective emitters, field-induced emitters, back-surface field regions, and contacts to the functional regions of a solar cell by essentially electrical means and without conventional thermal diffusion and masking processes. The pr... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105868 | Method for making solar sub-cells from a solar cell The invention pertains to a method for making a solar cell module comprising solar cells connected in series, comprising the steps of: a) making in a system composed of a substrate-overlaid by a first electrode layer, itself overlaid by an active layer, a first, int... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8093097 | Layer sequence and method of manufacturing a layer sequence A layer sequence (400), comprising an aluminum layer (300), a nickel layer (301), and a nickel layer protection layer (302; 701). The aluminum layer (300) is formable on a substrate (200), the nickel layer (301) is fo... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8084293 | Continuously optimized solar cell metallization design through feed-forward process An improved, lower cost method of processing substrates, such as to create solar cells, is disclosed. The doped regions are created on the substrate, using a mask or without the use of lithography or masks. After the implantation is complete, visual recognition is u... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8053272 | Semiconductor device fabrication method A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, comprises steps of forming a common contact hole for a first conductivity-type region and a second conductivity-type region, implanting an impurity in at least one of the first conductivity-type region and the second c... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8043886 | Methods for manufacturing a contact grid on a photovoltaic cell Processes for fabricating a contact grid for a photovoltaic cell generally includes providing a photovoltaic cell having an antireflective coating disposed on a sun facing side, the photovoltaic cell comprising a silicon substrate having a p-n junction; soft stampin... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8039293 | Method of manufacturing photoelectric conversion device A method of manufacturing a photoelectric conversion device having a semiconductor substrate, comprises a first step of forming an insulating film on the semiconductor substrate, a second step of forming first holes in the insulating film, a third step of forming, i... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8039292 | Holey electrode grids for photovoltaic cells with subwavelength and superwavelength feature sizes A photovoltaic cell and a method of forming an electrode grid on a photovoltaic semiconductor substrate of a photovoltaic cell are disclosed. In one embodiment, the photovoltaic cell comprises a photovoltaic semiconductor substrate; a back electrode electrically con... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8030122 | Method and apparatus for reduction of non-adaptive signals in photo-EMF sensors A method and apparatus for a photoinduced electromotive force sensor. The sensor has an active substrate formed of a semi-insulating photoconductor with sufficient carrier trap density to form an effective charge grating and pairs of electrodes disposed on the activ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8003434 | Reduced dark current photodetector A photo-detector comprising: a photo absorbing layer comprising an n-doped semiconductor exhibiting a valence band energy level; a barrier layer, a first side of the barrier layer adjacent a first side of the photo absorbing layer, the barrier layer exhibiting a val... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8003433 | Process for fabricating a high-integration-density image sensor The present application relates to the fabrication of an electronic component. The component comprises two, superposed integrated circuits: one of which is formed on the front side of a thinned first substrate, and the other of which is produced on the front side of... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7998786 | Method of manufacturing a TFT array panel Multi-layered wiring for a larger flat panel display is formed by depositing molybdenum on a substrate in presence of a precursor gas containing at least one oxygen, nitrogen and carbon to form a molybdenum layer. An aluminum layer is deposited on the molybdenum lay... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7993957 | Phase change memory cell and manufacturing method thereof using minitrenches A process forms a phase change memory cell using a resistive element and a memory region of a phase change material. The resistive element has a first thin portion having a first sublithographic dimension in a first direction; and the memory region has a second thin... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7977148 | Method for manufacturing image sensor A method for manufacturing an image sensor includes forming a photolithography key in a scribe lane of a first substrate over which circuitry is formed in an active region. A photodiode is formed on an active region of a second substrate. The second substrate is bon... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7972894 | Method of producing a photovoltaic cell with a heterojunction on the rear face A method of producing a photovoltaic cell. A passivation layer based on an intrinsic amorphous semiconductor is deposited on a back surface of a substrate based on a crystalline semiconductor. A first sacrificial mask including at least one through-opening on the pa... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7960206 | Adjustment of masks by re-flow As a step in performing a process on a structure, a hole pattern is provided in a thin layer of organic resin masking material formed over the structure to provide a process mask. A processing step is then performed through the openings in the mask, and after a proc... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7951641 | Photovoltaic lead manufacture An improved lead foil operation procedure for photovoltaic module manufacture is disclosed. The procedure includes lift, cut, and fold lead foil. ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7947528 | Solid-state image pickup device, electronic apparatus using such solid-state image pickup device and method of manufacturing solid-state image pickup device A back-illuminated type solid-state image pickup device (1041) includes read circuits (Tr1, Tr2) formed on one surface of a semiconductor substrate (1042) to read a signal from a photo-electric conversion element (PD) formed on the semico... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7943417 | Method for metallization of photovoltaic cells with multiple annealing operations Method for metallization of at least one photovoltaic cell comprising a substrate based on a semiconductor with a first type of conductivity, a layer doped with a second type of conductivity produced in the substrate and forming a front face of the substrate, an ant... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7932127 | Method of making CMOS image sensor-hybrid silicide Techniques for manufacturing a CMOS image sensor are provided. A semiconductor substrate is provided, and at least one isolation region can be formed between a periphery region of the substrate and a photo-sensing region of the substrate. A first well in the periphe... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7923282 | Formation of stretchable photovoltaic devices and carriers Formation of stretchable photovoltaic devices and carriers is described. In some examples, a formation method includes: forming a stretchable carrier including a stretchable part having a given length, the given length being operable to change in response to a force... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7906366 | Printing mask and solar cell A printing mask includes a mask frame and a mesh extended on the mask frame, in which a mask portion is formed by filling the mesh with resin to leave a pattern forming portion in a region corresponding to an electrode pattern to be formed on a printing object. The ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7901976 | Method of forming borderless contacts A method is provided for forming a borderless contact to a local interconnect (LI) line on a substrate. Generally, the method includes steps of (i) depositing a nitride layer over a number of LI lines on the substrate, to substantially cover the LI lines; (ii) etchi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7897428 | Three-dimensional integrated circuits and techniques for fabrication thereof Integrated circuits having complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and photonics circuitry and techniques for three-dimensional integration thereof are provided. In one aspect, a three-dimensional integrated circuit comprises a bottom device layer and a top d... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7888168 | Solar cell contact formation process using a patterned etchant material Embodiments of the invention contemplate the formation of a high efficiency solar cell using novel methods to form the active region(s) and the metal contact structure of a solar cell device. In one embodiment, the methods include the use of various etching and patt... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7863083 | High temperature processing compatible metal gate electrode for pFETS and methods for fabrication A method for fabricating a CMOS gate electrode by using Re, Rh, Pt, Ir or Ru metal and a CMOS structure that contains such gate electrodes are described. The work functions of these metals make them compatible with current pFET requirements. For instance, the metal ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7863084 | Contact fabrication of emitter wrap-through back contact silicon solar cells Back contact solar cells including rear surface structures and methods for making same. The rear surface has small contact areas through at least one dielectric layer, including but not limited to a passivation layer, a nitride layer, a diffusion barrier, and/or a m... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7858433 | Photoelectric converting film stack type solid-state image pickup device, and method of producing the same A solid-state image pickup device comprises: a plurality of photoelectric converting films stacked via an insulating layer, the photoelectric converting films being above a semiconductor substrate in which a signal read circuit is formed, in which each of the photoe... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7858432 | Method of manufacturing solar cells with buried contacts with a laser A buried contact solar cell which is capable of operating with high efficiency is manufactured by a method which comprises the steps of forming a groove in a surface of a substrate, and forming an electrode by filling a conductive material in the groove using a lase... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7820475 | Back side contact solar cell structures and fabrication processes In one embodiment, active diffusion junctions of a solar cell are formed by diffusing dopants from dopant sources selectively deposited on the back side of a wafer. The dopant sources may be selectively deposited using a printing method, for example. Multiple dopant... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7772028 | CMOS imager with Cu wiring and method of eliminating high reflectivity interfaces therefrom A CMOS image sensor and method of fabrication wherein the sensor includes Copper (Cu) metallization levels allowing for incorporation of a thinner interlevel dielectric stack to result in a pixel array exhibiting increased light sensitivity. The CMOS image sensor in... | 08/10/2010 |
