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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178778 | Photovoltaic conversion element and manufacturing method therefor, and photovoltaic conversion module using same A photovoltaic conversion element includes a one conductivity-type crystalline Si semiconductor; an opposite conductivity-type semiconductor which is joined to the crystalline Si semiconductor to form a pn junction therebetween; an electrode provided on the opposite... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8084683 | 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... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8049101 | Photovoltaic device In the photovoltaic devices comprising a substantially intrinsic amorphous silicon layer containing hydrogen between an n-type single-crystal silicon substrate and a p-type amorphous silicon layer containing hydrogen, the photovoltaic device according to the present... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049102 | Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same A solar cell includes a substrate of a first conductive type; an emitter part of a second conductive type positioned at a front surface of the substrate; a first silicon thin film layer positioned on the emitter part and including amorphous silicon containing impuri... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7960644 | Low-cost multi-junction solar cells and methods for their production Methods for fabricating solar cells without the need to perform gasification of metallurgical-grade silicon are disclosed. Consequently, the costs and health and environmental hazards involved in fabricating the solar or silicon grade silicon are being avoided. A so... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956283 | Low-cost solar cells and methods for their production Methods for fabricating solar cells without the need to perform gasification of metallurgical-grade silicon are disclosed. Consequently, the costs and health and environmental hazards involved in fabricating the solar or silicon grade silicon are being avoided. A so... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7897868 | Stacked photovoltaic element and method for producing the same A stacked photovoltaic element comprising a plurality of unit photovoltaic elements each composed of a pn- or pin-junction, connected to each other in series, wherein a zinc oxide layer is provided at least one position between the unit photovoltaic elements, and th... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7671271 | Thin film solar cell and its fabrication process A method for producing a solar cell including the steps of forming a p-type microcrystalline silicon oxide layer on a glass substrate using a PECVD method and raw gases comprising Silane gas, Diborane gas, Hydrogen gas and Carbon Dioxide gas. The method may employ a... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7633006 | Back side contact solar cell with doped polysilicon regions In one embodiment, a back side contact solar cell includes a tunnel oxide layer formed on a back side of a substrate. A polysilicon layer is formed on the tunnel oxide layer, and dopant sources are formed on the polysilicon layer. Dopants from the dopant sources are... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7371619 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same In order to obtain a thin-film transistor having high characteristics using a metal element for accelerating the crystallization of silicon, a nickel element is selectively added to the surface of an amorphous silicon film (103) in regions (101) and ( | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371263 | Plasmaless dry contact cleaning method using interhalogen compounds A method of removing an oxide layer from an article. The article may be located in a reaction chamber into which an interhalogen compound reactive with the oxide layer is introduced. A temperature of the reaction chamber may be modified so as to remove the oxide lay... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368658 | High efficiency diamond solar cells A photovoltaic device and method of making same. A layer of p-doped microcrystalline diamond is deposited on a layer of n-doped ultrananocrystalline diamond such as by providing a substrate in a chamber, providing a first atmosphere containing about 1% by volume CH | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364808 | Substrate with transparent conductive oxide film, process for its production and photoelectric conversion element A substrate with a transparent conductive oxide film (especially a substrate with a transparent conductive oxide film useful as a substrate for a thin-film silicon-based solar cell) being excellent in mass production efficiency and being characterized by having a lo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7354857 | Method of making iron silicide and method of making photoelectric transducer A solar cell comprises a substrate, and a metal electrode layer, a p-i-n junction, and a transparent electrode layer which are successively laminated on the substrate. The p-i-n junction comprises an n layer, an i layer, and a p layer which are laminated in this ord... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352044 | Photoelectric transducer, photoelectric transducer apparatus, and iron silicide film A solar battery 10 comprises a metal electrode layer 12, a pin junction 100, and a transparent electrode layer 16 which are successively laminated on a substrate 11 such as a silicon substrate. The pin junction 100 comprises... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7333916 | Performance monitor for a photovoltaic supply A method and apparatus is disclosed for monitoring the performance of a solar powered electrical supply where the supply comprises an array of photovoltaic cells that are mounted on a building. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises: a device for producing a sig... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7332785 | Dye-sensitized solar cell A dye-sensitized solar cell with high conversion efficiency is provided. The dye-sensitized solar cell according to the present invention has, between an electrode (2) formed on a surface of a transparent substrate (1) and a counter electrode (6... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7309831 | Protective sheet for solar battery module, method of fabricating the same and solar battery module A protective sheet for a solar battery module comprises a weather-resistant sheet (1) of, for example, a fluorocarbon resin, and a deposited inorganic oxide thin film (2) formed on one of the surfaces of the weather-resistant sheet (1). A surfac... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7279632 | Multi-element polycrystal for solar cells and method of manufacturing the same Provided is a multi-element polycrystal formed by cooling a melt containing multiple components while controlling a cooling rate. The multi-element polycrystal is a mixed crystal essentially formed of elements Si and Ge having different absorption wavelength ranges ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276658 | Manufacturing a solar cell foil connected in series via a temporary substrate The invention pertains to a method of manufacturing a photovoltaic foil provided with solar cells connected in series, which method comprises the following steps: a) providing a temporary substrate b) applying a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) c) applying a photo... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276749 | Image sensor with microcrystalline germanium photodiode layer A microcrystalline germanium image sensor array. The array includes a number of pixel circuits fabricated in or on a substrate. Each pixel circuit comprises a charge collecting electrode for collecting electrical charges and a readout means for reading out the charg... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271333 | Apparatus and method of production of thin film photovoltaic modules The present invention relates to light-weight thin-film photovoltaic cells, methods for making cells, modules made from cells, and methods for making modules from cells. The invention teaches a manner in which individual cells may be bonded to one another, eliminati... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7259321 | Method of manufacturing thin film photovoltaic modules A method for manufacturing a thin film photovoltaic module comprising series connected cells, the cells comprising a front contact, a back contact and a photovoltaically active region positioned between the front and back contacts, the series connected cell being fo... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253355 | Method for constructing a layer structure on a substrate The invention relates to a method for constructing a layer structure on an especially fragile flat substrate. In order for thin, fragile flat substrates to be able to be subjected to refinement or construction of semiconductor components, a process is proposed with ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7242049 | Memory device A floating gate transistor has a reduced barrier energy at an interface with an adjacent gate insulator, allowing faster charge transfer across the gate insulator at lower voltages. Data is stored as charge on the floating gate. The data charge retention time on the... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7214872 | Photovoltaic element and photovoltaic device An ITO film as a transparent conductive film is formed on a semiconductor layer comprising an amorphous semiconductor or a microcrystalline semiconductor, a comb-like collecting electrode is formed on the ITO film, and a cover glass containing alkaline ions is place... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7211821 | Devices with optical gain in silicon A photonic device includes a silicon semiconductor based superlattice. The superlattice has a plurality of layers that form a plurality of repeating units. At least one of the layers in the repeating unit is an optically active layer with at least one species of rar... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7208355 | Semiconductor device and method for preparing the same A semiconductor device and a method for preparing the same that can solve crack of a semiconductor film, capacitance electrodes and the like due to stress when forming a source electrode and a drain electrode in a semiconductor device having a thin film transistor a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7208394 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device with a fluorine concentration At present, a forming process of a base film through an amorphous silicon film is conducted in respective film forming chambers in order to obtain satisfactory films. When continuous formation of the base film through the amorphous silicon film is performed in a sin... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7202102 | Doped absorption for enhanced responsivity for high speed photodiodes A photodiode with a semiconductor intrinsic light absorption layer has at least one p-doped light absorption layer or an n-doped light absorption layer, and preferably both. The diode also has a cathode electrode and an anode electrode electrically coupled with the ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202143 | Low temperature production of large-grain polycrystalline semiconductors An oxide or nitride layer is provided on an amorphous semiconductor layer prior to performing metal-induced crystallization of the semiconductor layer. The oxide or nitride layer facilitates conversion of the amorphous material into large grain polycrystalline mater... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202411 | Photovoltaic and thermophotovoltaic devices with quantum barriers A photovoltaic or thermophotovoltaic device includes a diode formed by p-type material and n-type material joined at a p-n junction and including a depletion region adjacent to said p-n junction, and a quantum barrier disposed near or in the depletion region of the ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198992 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising doping steps using gate electrodes and resists as masks The present invention is characterized in that a semiconductor film containing a rare gas element is formed on a crystalline semiconductor film obtained by using a catalytic element via a barrier layer, and the catalytic element is moved from the crystalline semicon... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199303 | Optical energy conversion apparatus An optical energy conversion apparatus 10 includes a first impurity doped semiconductor layer 5, formed on a substrate, and which is of a semiconductor material admixed with a first impurity, an optically active layer 6, formed on the first impu... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196834 | Transparent flat body This invention relates to a transparent flat body including two transparent cover layers (1, 2) that confine between them an active layer (3) whose transparency varies in an electric field and disposed between two electrode layers (6, 7) optiona... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194801 | Thin-film battery having ultra-thin electrolyte and associated method A method and system for fabricating solid-state energy-storage devices including fabrication films for devices without an anneal step. A film of an energy-storage device is fabricated by depositing a first material layer to a location on a substrate. Energy is suppl... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7189917 | Stacked photovoltaic device To provide a stacked photovoltaic device including: at least one pair of a first photovoltaic device and a second photovoltaic device stacked in order from a light incident side; and a selective reflection layer formed between the at least one pair of the first phot... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7182122 | Heating and cooling apparatus, and vacuum processing apparatus equipped with this apparatus A heating and cooling apparatus with which batch processing is possible and throughput can be increased, and furthermore which is more compact and uses less energy. A substrate heating chamber and a substrate cooling chamber each capable of simultaneously holding a ... | 02/27/2007 |
