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7468146 |
A metal chalcogenide composite nano-particle comprising a metal capable of forming p-type semiconducting chalcogenide nano-particles and a metal capable of forming n-type semiconducting chalcogenide nano-particles, wherein at least one o...
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7319190 |
The present invention relates generally to the field of photovoltaics and more specifically to manufacturing thin-film solar cells using a thermal process. Specifically, a method is disclosed to manufacture a CIGS solar cell by an in-sit...
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7297868 |
A photovoltaic cell exhibiting an overall conversion efficiency of at least 9.0% is prepared from a copper-indium-gallium-diselenide thin film. The thin film is prepared by simultaneously electroplating copper, indium, gallium, and selen...
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7255926 |
A component involving a substrate, a layered structure arranged on the substrate, and a barrier layer arranged over the layered structure, wherein the barrier layer has the reaction product of an epoxy resin and a polymeric polyol.
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7253355 |
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...
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7235736 |
A solar cell unit comprising a substrate and a plurality of photovoltaic cells is provided. The substrate has a first end and a second end. The plurality of photovoltaic cells, which are linearly arranged on the substrate, comprises a fi...
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7179677 |
A process for making a thin film ZnO/Cu(InGa)Se 2 solar cell without depositing a buffer layer and by Zn doping from a vapor phase, comprising: depositing Cu(InGa)Se 2 layer on a metal back contact deposited on a glass substrate; heati...
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7087833 |
Nanocomposite photovoltaic devices are provided that generally include semiconductor nanocrystals as at least a portion of a photoactive layer. Photovoltaic devices and other layered devices that comprise core-shell nanostructures and/or...
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7087832 |
Nanocomposite photovoltaic devices are provided that generally include semiconductor nanocrystals as at least a portion of a photoactive layer. Photovoltaic devices and other layered devices that comprise core-shell nanostructures and/or...
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7053294 |
A thin-film solar cell ( 10 ) is provided. The thin-film solar cell ( 10 ) comprises a flexible metallic substrate ( 12 ) having a first surface and a second surface. A back metal contact layer ( 16 ) is deposited on the first surface of...
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7026543 |
In a photovoltaic cell having a photovoltaically active semiconductor material constituted by a plurality of metals or metal oxides, the photovoltaically active material is selected from a
p- or n-doped semiconductor material cons...
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7022910 |
In one aspect, the invention provides photovoltaic cells that utilize a mesh electrode on at least one exposure side of the photovoltaic cell. Preferably, the mesh electrode is a metallic mesh. In one embodiment, the invention provides d...
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7019208 |
Sulfur is used to improve the performance of CIGS devices prepared by the evaporation of a single source ZIS type compound to form a buffer layer on the CIGS. The sulfur may be evaporated, or contained in the ZIS type material, or both. ...
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6974976 |
A method of manufacturing improved thin-film solar cells entirely by sputtering includes a high efficiency back contact/reflecting multi-layer containing at least one barrier layer consisting of a transition metal nitride. A copper indiu...
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6951689 |
The present invention provides a substrate with a transparent conductive layer comprising at least one layer stacked on a supporting substrate, wherein the surface of the transparent conductive layer has a distribution of inclination arc...
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6949206 |
The present invention provides compositions (small molecules, oligomers and polymers) that can be used to modify charge transport across a nanocrystal surface or within a nanocrystal-containing matrix, as well as methods for making and u...
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6878871 |
Nanocomposite photovoltaic devices are provided that generally include semiconductor nanocrystals as at least a portion of a photoactive layer. Photovoltaic devices and other layered devices that comprise core-shell nanostructures and/or...
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6864415 |
A photoelectric cell that includes a first insulating base, having on its surface a first electrode layer, which has on its surface a metal oxide semiconductor film, which includes anatase titanium oxide particles, on which a photosensit...
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6849798 |
The present invention relates to the use of a nanocrystalline layer of Cu 2 O in the construction of photovoltaic cells to increase the ability of the photovoltaic cells to utilize UV radiations for photocurrent generation.
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6825409 |
A thin-film solar cell and a method of producing a thin-film solar cell. The thin-film solar cell includes an absorber layer and at least one transparent window electrode. The window electrode is produced with a first metal-based thin-fi...
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6822158 |
A thin-film solar cell including a transparent electrode layer, a semiconductor photovoltaic conversion layer, a rear transparent electrode layer and a rear reflective metal layer, said layers being formed in this order on a transparent ...
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6740807 |
A differential response light-receiving device comprising: a semiconductor electrode comprising an electrically conductive layer and a photosensitive layer containing a semiconductor sensitized by a dye; an ion-conductive electrolyte lay...
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6706959 |
A photoelectric conversion element is disposed in each of a plurality of recesses of a support. Light reflected by the inside surface of the recess shines on the photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element has ...
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6660931 |
A substrate for a solar cell is provided which comprises a support having a metal surface and a zinc oxide film formed on the metal surface and having a water content of 7.5×10 −3 mol/cm 3 or less, preferably 4.0×10 −4 mol/cm 3 ...
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6639143 |
A solar cell using a ferroelectric material(s) is provided with a ferroelectric layer at the front surface or the rear surface thereof, or at the front and the rear surfaces thereof. The ferroelectric layer is formed with a ferroelectric...
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6559373 |
The present invention relates to a solar powered cathodic protection system using a photocatalyst which functions as a non-sacrificial photoanode under sunlight, wherein said non-sacrificial photoanode consisting of the photocatalyst suc...
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6559372 |
Systems and methods are described for compositions, apparatus and/or electronic devices. A composition, includes a composition layer defining a first surface and a second surface, the composition layer including a collection layer that i...
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6541695 |
A thin film, photovoltaic, solar energy conversion device comprising: a thin-film, photovoltaic layer; a transparent electrical conducting layer in contact with said photovoltaic layer; a back electrical conducting layer in contact with ...
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6538194 |
A photoelectric cell that includes a first insulating base, having on its surface a first electrode layer, which has on its surface a metal oxide semiconductor film, which includes anatase titanium oxide particles, on which a photosensit...
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6534704 |
A solar cell includes a first semiconductor layer that is p-type, and a second semiconductor layer that is n-type formed over the first semiconductor layer. The solar cell includes a layer A made of a semiconductor different from the fir...
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6518086 |
A two-stage method of producing thin-films of group IB-IIIA-VIA on a substrate for semiconductor device applications includes a first stage of depositing an amorphous group IB-IIIA-VIA precursor onto an unheated substrate, wherein the pr...
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6515219 |
Provided are a zinc oxide thin film having an X-ray diffraction peak of the plane of zinc oxide crystal, a photoelectric conversion element having the zinc oxide thin film, and production processes thereof. By these, the texture level of...
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6512172 |
Disclosed is a method of producing a photo device containing a layer of nanometer sized particles and a conducting polymer in solid sate, wherein the layer is made by mixing the nanometer sized particles in colloid with precursor polypar...
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6486391 |
The invention relates to a diode structure, especially for thin film solar cells. The aim of the invention is to provide a diode structure for thin film solar cells. Said structure allows for an assembly of a thin film solar cell, whereb...
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6479745 |
A dye-sensitized solar cell comprising a porous semiconductor layer in which a dye is adsorbed and an electrolyte which are sandwiched between a transparent conductive film formed on a surface of a transparent substrate and a conductive ...
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6479744 |
In a photovoltaic device module comprising a plurality of photovoltaic devices connected electrically through a metal member, an insulating member is so provided as to avoid contact between an edge portion of the photovoltaic device and ...
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6452091 |
The peeling of a thin-film single-crystal from a substrate is carried out so that the directions of straight lines on the single-crystal surface made by planes on which the single-crystal is apt to cleave are different from the front lin...
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6441301 |
A solar cell with good characteristics and high reliability is provided that includes a semiconductor comprising at least one element from each of groups Ib, IIIb, and VIb. A method of manufacturing the same also is provided. The solar c...
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6429369 |
The invention relates to a thin-film solar cell on the basis of IB-IIIA-VIA compound semiconductors and a method for producing such a solar cell. Between the polycrystalline IB-IIIA-VIA absorber layer of the p-type conductivity and the c...
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6355874 |
The present invention provides a semiconductor device and a solar cell, which may be low-cost, highly efficient, safe, and last long. The semiconductor device has a compound semiconductor layer as a window layer including nitride compoun...
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6323417 |
Provided is a method for making layers of I-III-VI semiconductor materials for use in photovoltaic cells, and particularly for making CIS and variations on CIS, such as CIGS and CIGSS. The method includes formation of a plurality of prec...
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6310281 |
A new, large-area, thin-film, flexible photovoltaic structure is disclosed, as well as a general fabrication procedure, including a preferably roll-to-roll-type, process-chamber-segregated, "continuous-motion", method for producing such ...
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6307148 |
An indium layer and a copper layer, and whenever necessary, a gallium layer or a gallium-alloy layer, are laminated on an electrode film formed on one of the surfaces of a substrate to form a metallic film. The metallic film is then subj...
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6297442 |
It is to provide an essentially transparent solar cell of high efficiency that can be used by accumulating with a display device to generate electricity simultaneously with utilization of the display function, a self-power-supply display...
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6291762 |
The present invention discloses a dust-proof and weather resistant photovoltaic module, including (a) a front substrate of light transmittable safety glass plate, wherein a photo-catalyst composition is applied to the safety glass plate;...
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6281036 |
A method of fabricating Cuα(In x Ga 1 -x)β(Se y S 1 -y)γ films for solar cells includes forming an electrode on a substrate and supplying the substrate and electrode with Cu, In, Ga, Se, and S to form a Cuα(In x Ga 1 -x)β(Se y S...
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6259016 |
The present invention includes a substrate, a lower electrode film, a p-type semiconductor layer (a second semiconductor layer), an n-type semiconductor layer (a first semiconductor layer), an upper electrode film and an anti-reflection ...
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6251701 |
An all dry method for producing solar cells is provided comprising first heat-annealing a II-VI semiconductor; enhancing the conductivity and grain size of the annealed layer; modifying the surface and depositing a tellurium layer onto t...
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6238808 |
Provided are a substrate with a zinc oxide layer, in which at least a zinc oxide layer is provided on a support substrate, wherein the zinc oxide layer comprises a zinc oxide layer having the c axis perpendicular to the support substrate...
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6187150 |
A method for manufacturing a thin film photovoltaic device comprising a transparent conductive film, a thin film photovoltaic unit, and a back transparent conductive film and a back metal electrode which are successively formed on a subs...
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