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8183066 Method and system for large scale manufacture of thin film photovoltaic devices using multi-chamber configuration  
A method for large scale manufacture of photovoltaic devices includes loading a substrate into a load lock station and transferring the substrate in a controlled ambient to a first process station....
8178937 Image sensor and method for manufacturing the same  
Disclosed are an image sensor and a method for manufacturing the same. The image sensor includes an isolation trench formed in a semiconductor substrate corresponding to a logic region and a pixel...
8178384 Interfacial architecture for nanostructured optoelectronic devices  
An optoelectronic apparatus, a method for making the apparatus, and the use of the apparatus in an optoelectronic device are disclosed. The apparatus may include an active layer having a...
8173474 Method of manufacturing solar battery  
When a layered structure of a transparent electrode layer and a metal layer is formed as a back side electrode layer over a surface on a side opposite to a side of incidence of light of a thin film...
8173891 Monolithic, multi-bandgap, tandem, ultra-thin, strain-counterbalanced, photovoltaic energy converters with optimal subcell bandgaps  
Modeling a monolithic, multi-bandgap, tandem, solar photovoltaic converter or thermophotovoltaic converter by constraining the bandgap value for the bottom subcell to no less than a particular...
8173477 Isolation chamber and method of using the isolation chamber to make solar cell material  
Apparatuses and methods are provided for the continuous formation of solar cell material including an isolation chamber that reduces cross contamination between adjacent formation zones that are at...
8173475 Method of producing photoelectric conversion device having a multilayer structure formed on a substrate  
A method of producing a photoelectric conversion device having a multilayer structure formed on a substrate, the multilayer structure including a lower electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer...
8168462 Passivation process for solar cell fabrication  
Embodiments of the invention contemplate the formation of a high efficiency solar cell using a novel plasma oxidation process to form a passivation film stack on a surface of a solar cell...
8168467 Solar cell method of fabrication via float glass process  
The present invention provides improved solar cells. This patent teaches a particularly efficient method of device manufacture based on incorporating the solar cell fabrication into the widely...
8163089 Vapor deposition apparatus and process for continuous deposition of a thin film layer on a substrate  
An apparatus and related process are provided for vapor deposition of a sublimated source material as a thin film on a photovoltaic (PV) module substrate. A receptacle is disposed within a vacuum...
8163587 Methods of using a silicon nanoparticle fluid to control in situ a set of dopant diffusion profiles  
A method of forming a multi-doped junction on a substrate is disclosed. The method includes providing the substrate doped with boron atoms, the substrate comprising a front substrate surface, and...
8164083 Quantum dot optoelectronic devices with enhanced performance  
An optoelectronic device is disclosed which includes a quantum dot layer including plurality of quantum dots which do not have capping layers. This optoelectronic device may be a quantum dot...
8163591 Backside illuminated image sensor  
A backside illuminated image sensor includes a photodiode, formed below the top surface of a semiconductor substrate, for receiving light illuminated from the backside of the semiconductor...
8158451 Method for manufacturing a junction  
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device comprising a homojunction or a heterojunction with a controlled dopant (concentration) profile and a method of making the same. Accordingly,...
8158450 Barrier films and high throughput manufacturing processes for photovoltaic devices  
Methods and devices are provided for improved roofing devices. In one embodiment of the present invention, a photovoltaic roofing assembly is provided that comprises of a roofing membrane and a...
8158921 Dual conversion gain gate and capacitor combination  
An imaging device comprising a plurality of photosensors, a shared diffusion region for receiving charge generated by the photosensors, and a dual conversion gain element that can be selectively...
8153456 Bifacial solar cell using ion implantation  
An improved bifacial solar cell is disclosed. In some embodiments, the front side includes an n-type field surface field, while the back side includes a p-type emitter. In other embodiments, the...
8154055 CMOS image sensor and method for fabricating the same  
A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor includes a photodiode formed in a substrate structure, first to fourth gate electrodes formed over the substrate structure, spacers...
8154020 Photo-voltaic cell device and display panel  
A photo-voltaic cell device includes a first electrode, an N-type doped silicon-rich dielectric layer, a P-type doped silicon-rich dielectric layer, and a second electrode. The N-type doped...
8153465 Image sensor and method for manufacturing the same  
An image sensor and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The image sensor includes a readout circuitry, an electrical junction region, an interconnection, and an image sensing device. The...
8154097 Image sensor and method of manufacturing the same  
An image sensor and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The image sensor includes a substrate having a sensor array area and a peripheral circuit area a first insulating film structure...
8153466 Mask applied to a workpiece  
A method of fabricating a workpiece is disclosed. A material defining apertures is applied to a workpiece. A species is introduced to the workpiece through the apertures and the material is...
8148188 Photoelectrochemical cell with carbon nanotube-functionalized semiconductor electrode  
Photoelectrochemical cells and methods are provided, in particular, to the functionalization of semiconductor surfaces such that its semiconducting and light generating properties are maintained...
8148192 Transparent solar cell method of fabrication via float glass process  
The present invention provides improved devices such as transparent solar cells. This patent teaches a particularly efficient method of device manufacture based on incorporating the solar cell...
8143086 Optically controlled electrical-switch device based upon carbon nanotubes and electrical-switch system using the switch device  
Described herein is an optically controlled electrical-switch device which includes a first current-conduction terminal and a second current-conduction terminal, and a carbon nanotube connected...
8143084 Image sensing device and manufacture method thereof  
An image sensing device for receiving an incident light having an incident angle and photo signals formed thereby is provided. The image sensing device includes a micro prism and a micro lens for...
8143149 Method of forming a flexible nanostructured material for photovoltaic panels  
An efficient and low-cost method is intended for forming a flexible nanostructured material suitable for use as an active element of a photovoltaic panel. The method consists of evaporating a...
8143085 Dye-sensitized solar cell and method for manufacturing the same  
Provided is a dye-sensitized solar cell. Specifically, the present invention provides a dye-sensitized solar cell which is designed to reduce the production cost, improve productivity and increase...
8139139 Imaging apparatus with phase difference detecting sensor  
An imaging apparatus having a function of enabling focus detection at high speed while exposing an image sensor to light. Imaging apparatus 1 has: a first photoelectric converting element (image...
8138065 Solid-state imaging device and method for manufacturing the same  
A solid-state imaging device having a high sensitivity and a structure in which a miniaturized pixel is obtained, and a method for manufacturing the solid-state imaging device in which an interface...
8138009 Method of fabricating thin film solar cell and apparatus for fabricating thin film solar cell  
Disclosed is a method of fabricating a thin film solar cell including introducing a reaction solution into a reaction chamber, fixing a supporter onto a loader, disposing the loader in the reaction...
8133751 ONO spacer etch process to reduce dark current  
A method of forming a CMOS image sensor device. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a P-type impurity characteristic. The semiconductor substrate includes a surface...
8129765 CMOS image sensor with photo-detector protecting layers  
An image sensor includes a logic region and an APS region having a first gate electrode, a photo-detector, a first protecting layer, first spacers, and a second protecting layer. The first gate...
8129812 Trench isolation structure and method of formation  
In general, the present invention discloses at least one trench isolation region formed in a semiconductor substrate to electrically and/or optically isolate at least one active region from another...
8119434 Fast p-i-n photodetector with high responsitivity  
A lateral p-i-n photodetector is provided that includes an array of vertical semiconductor nanowires of a first conductivity type that are grown over a semiconductor substrate also of the first...
8119439 Methods of manufacturing an image sensor having an air gap  
In an example embodiment, the method of manufacturing an image sensor includes forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) on a substrate. The substrate may have a plurality of pixels arranged thereon...
8119433 Image sensor and fabricating method thereof  
An image sensor includes an insulating interlayer including a metal line on a semiconductor substrate, a photodiode pattern provided on the insulating interlayer to be connected to the metal line,...
8114739 Semiconductor device with oxygen-diffusion barrier layer and method for fabricating same  
Methods are provided for fabricating a transistor. An exemplary method involves depositing an oxide layer overlying a layer of semiconductor material, forming an oxygen-diffusion barrier layer...
8115241 Solid state imaging apparatus and method for fabricating the same  
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a substrate; an imaging region which is formed at part of the substrate and in which photoelectric conversion cells including photoelectric...
8115097 Grid-line-free contact for a photovoltaic cell  
Electrical contact to the front side of a photovoltaic cell is provided by an array of conductive through-substrate vias, and optionally, an array of conductive blocks located on the front side of...
8105861 CMOS image sensor with reduced dark current  
A carbon-containing semiconductor layer is formed on exposed surfaces of a p− doped semiconductor layer abutting sidewalls of a shallow trench. Following formation of a dielectric layer on the c...
8106427 Image sensor with well bounce correction  
An image sensor includes a pixel array having photoactive pixels and dark reference pixels. The photoactive pixels can be configured in a sub-array within the pixel array. Well contacts are only...
8101437 Method of forming three-terminal solar cell array  
A method for manufacturing three-terminal solar cell array is provided. In this method, only four major scribing or etching steps are needed to expose the three conductive layers of the...
8101450 Photodetector isolation in image sensors  
Shallow trench isolation regions are disposed in an n-type silicon semiconductor layer laterally adjacent to a collection region of a photodetector and laterally adjacent to a charge-to-voltage...
8101451 Method to form a device including an annealed lamina and having amorphous silicon on opposing faces  
A semiconductor assembly is described in which a support element is constructed on a surface of a semiconductor lamina. Following formation of the thin lamina, which may have a thickness about 50...
8101449 Process for altering thermoelectric properties of a material  
A process for altering the thermoelectric properties of an electrically conductive material is provided. The process includes providing an electrically conducting material and a substrate. The...
8101455 Method of fabricating solar cell  
A method of fabricating a solar cell is disclosed. The solar cell fabricating method includes forming a first transparent conductive layer on a transparent substrate, texturing an upper surface of...
8097927 Highly sensitive photo-sensing element and photo-sensing device using the same  
The present invention provides an image display unit integrated with a photo-sensor, comprising a photo-sensing element with high sensitivity and low noise and a polycrystalline silicon TFT...
8093095 Semiconductor device with a bulk single crystal on a substrate  
Device and method of forming a device in which a substrate (10) is fabricated with at least part of an electronic circuit for processing signals. A bulk single crystal material (14) is formed on...
8088639 Solid-state image pickup device  
A solid-state image pickup device includes a semiconductor substrate within which a pixel comprised of a photodiode and a transistor is formed. The transistor is formed at a surface of the...