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7595543 Semiconductor processing method for increasing usable surface area of a semiconductor wafer  
The invention provides a method for increasing the usable surface area of a semiconductor wafer having a substantially planar surface and a thickness dimension at right angles to said substantially...
7575698 TI and W containing transparent oxide electrode film  
A transparent oxide electrode film is provided to have crystalline indium oxide as its main component in which the indium in the indium oxide is substituted with titanium at a titanium/indium...
7569462 Directional crystallization of silicon sheets using rapid thermal processing  
The present invention provides a method of recrystallizing a silicon sheet, and in particular recrystallizing a small grained silicon sheet to improve material properties such as grain size and...
7550665 Stacked photoelectric converter  
In a stacked-layer type photoelectric conversion device, a plurality of photoelectric conversion units are stacked on a substrate, each of which includes a one conductivity-type layer, a...
7537955 Low temperature nano particle preparation and deposition for phase-controlled compound film formation  
The present invention is directed to different methods used in the formation of an ink, as well as being directed to the formation of layers used in the fabrication of a solar cell, particularly...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
7161083 High efficiency solar cells  
The present invention relates to improvements in solar cell and solar panel photovoltaic materials which cause the solar cells/panels to operate more efficiently. In particular, the present...
7132598 Hole transporting agents and photoelectric conversion device comprising the same  
A photoelectric conversion device comprising a semiconductor and an organic electrically conducting agent, wherein the organic electrically conducting agent exhibits a melting temperature T m ...
7128975 Multicrystalline silicon substrate and process for roughening surface thereof  
A surface of a multicrystalline silicon substrate is etched with an alkaline aqueous solution in a condition so that a surface area-to-planar surface area ratio R is smaller than 1.1. A...
7122736 Method and apparatus for fabricating a thin-film solar cell utilizing a hot wire chemical vapor deposition technique  
A thin-film solar cell is provided. The thin-film solar cell comprises an a-SiGe:H (1.6 eV) n-i-p solar cell having a deposition rate of at least ten (10) Å/second for the a-SiGe:H intrinsic...
7091411 Multicrystalline laser-crystallized silicon thin layer solar cell deposited on a glass substrate and method of producing  
The invention relates to a multicrystalline laser-crystallized silicon thin layer solar cell deposited on a glass substrate (a), which is configured for illuminating from the substrate side, and to...
7087831 Photoelectric conversion device and method of production thereof  
A photoelectric conversion device comprising at least an electron acceptive charge transfer layer, an electron donative charge transfer layer, and a light absorption layer existing between the...
7075002 Thin-film photoelectric conversion device and a method of manufacturing the same  
A method of manufacturing a thin-film solar cell, comprising the steps of: forming an amorphous silicon film on a substrate; placing a metal element that accelerates the crystallization of silicon...
7067069 Silane composition, silicon film forming method and solar cell production method  
A silane composition for preparing a semiconductor thin films of a solar cell is disclosed. The silane composition contains a polysilane compound represented by the formula Si n R m (n is an...
7064263 Stacked photovoltaic device  
A stacked photovoltaic device comprises at least three p-i-n junction constituent devices superposed in layers, each having a p-type layer, an i-type layer and an n-type layer which are formed of...
7030313 Thin film solar cell and method of manufacturing the same  
A thin film solar cell comprises a p-layer, an i-layer and an n-layer formed in this order as a pin junction on a substrate in which the p-layer and the i-layer are thin silicon films each...
7019207 Method for producing a solar module with thin-film solar cells which are series-connected in an integrated manner and solar modules produced according to the method, especially using concentrator modules  
Known methods of producing large-surface integrated thin-film solar modules with an amorphous, poly- or microcrystalline absorber layer always comprise division and conversion structuring processes...
6963120 Photovoltaic element  
A photovoltaic element is provided which has a high conversion efficiency, a low-cost producibility, a light weight and good overall characteristics in a final product form with a transparent...
6960718 Method for manufacturing a photovoltaic element  
In a photovoltaic element according to the present invention, a first transparent conductive film, a second transparent conductive film, a p-type semiconductor film, an intrinsic semiconductor...
6951770 Method of manufacturing a photovoltaic foil  
The invention pertains to a method of manufacturing a photovoltaic foil comprising a TCO layer, a photovoltaic layer, and a back electrode, which method comprises the following steps: providing a...
6951689 Substrate with transparent conductive layer, and photovoltaic element  
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...
6946029 Sheet manufacturing method, sheet, sheet manufacturing apparatus, and solar cell  
An inexpensive sheet with excellent evenness and a desired uniform thickness can be obtained by cooling a base having protrusions, dipping the surfaces of the protrusions of the cooled base into a...
6930238 Solar cell module-mounting structure and solar cell module array  
In a solar cell module-mounting structure, a solar cell module 101 is fixed on one surface of a plate-shaped member 102 , the plate-shaped member 102 is placed on an installation surface so...
6911594 Photovoltaic device  
A photovoltaic device including a plurality of unit devices stacked, each unit device comprising a silicon-based non-single-crystal semiconductor material and having a pn or pin structure, in which...
RE38727 Photoelectric conversion device and method of making the same  
A photoelectric conversion device has a non-single-crystal semiconductor laminate member formed on a substrate having a conductive surface, and a conductive layer formed on the non-single-crystal...
6878921 Photovoltaic device and manufacturing method thereof  
A photovoltaic device having a crystalline semiconductor and an amorphous semiconductor thin film so that junction characteristics can be upgraded. The photovoltaic device includes an i-type...
6870088 Solar battery cell and manufacturing method thereof  
A solar battery cell of a serial stacked structure, increasing scattering of light, exhibiting good power-generating efficiency per unit area, and ensuring high reliability and a large yield in the...
6858308 Semiconductor element, and method of forming silicon-based film  
The invention provides a semiconductor element having a semiconductor junction composed of silicon-based films, at least one of the silicon-based films containing a microcrystal. The microcrystal...
6838743 Optoelectronic material, device using the same and method for manufacturing optoelectronic material  
This invention relates an optoelectronic material comprising a uniform medium with a controllable electric characteristic; and semiconductor ultrafine particles dispersed in the medium and having a...
6825408 Stacked photoelectric conversion device  
A stacked photoelectric conversion device comprising at least two photoelectric conversion element layers sandwiched between a first electrode layer and a light receiving second electrode layer,...
6822157 Thin film solar battery module  
In a thin film solar battery module, a flat glass substrate with non-monocrystal silicon type thin film solar cells formed thereon, a space layer, and a chilled figured glass are sequentially...
6821875 Low area metal contacts for photovoltaic devices  
In a method for forming a contact on semiconductor surface, a crystalline silicon surface is first oxidized, following which an aluminium layer is deposited onto the oxide layer. A layer of...
6812499 Silicon-based film and photovoltaic element  
A silicon based film is provided which comprises a crystal phase formed on a substrate with a surface shape represented by a function f, wherein the silicon-based film is formed on a substrate with...
6800801 Photovoltaic power generating structure  
There is disclosed a photovoltaic power generating structure in which a solar cell module is arranged on a base member, wherein a closed space portion cut off from the air is provided between the...
6791024 Power converter, and photovoltaic element module and power generator using the same  
To improve the conversion efficiency of a power converter in a solar cell module in which a solar cell module main body containing a solar cell is integrated with a power converter for converting...
6784358 Solar cell structure utilizing an amorphous silicon discrete by-pass diode  
A solar cell structure includes a solar cell that produces a voltage when illuminated, and a discrete amorphous silicon by-pass diode. A first by-pass diode terminal of the amorphous silicon...
6780665 Photovoltaic cells from silicon kerf  
The disclosure describes an economical and environmentally benign method to recover crystalline silicon metal kerf from wiresaw slurries and to shape and sinter said recovered crystalline silicon...
6750394 Thin-film solar cell and its manufacturing method  
A thin-film solar cell comprises a set of a transparent conductive layer and a photoelectric conversion layer laminated in this order on a substrate, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer is...
6737123 Silicon-based film formation process, silicon-based film, semiconductor device, and silicon-based film formation system  
A silicon-based film is formed superimposing a direct-current potential on the high-frequency power to set the potential of the high-frequency power feed section to a potential which is lower by V...
6734352 Photoelectric conversion device  
The present invention provides a photoelectric conversion device that improves photoelectric conversion efficiency with the interaction between a transparent substrate with a transparent conductive...