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7634389 |
Reflectivity optimization for multilayer stacks
A method for obtaining an optimal reflectivity value for complex multilayer stacks is disclosed. Aspects of the present invention include generating a model of a multilayer stack and parameterizing...
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7615400 |
Method for producing multijunction solar cell
There is provided a method for producing a multijunction solar cell having four-junctions, the method allowing the area of a device to be increased. On a nucleation site formed on a substrate 2, ...
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7572648 |
Method of manufacturing optical sensor
A cubic element of photonic crystal is integrally formed on the surface of a photo-detection element, and a portion of the photonic crystal cubic element is irradiated with ultraviolet rays thereby...
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7557024 |
Single poly CMOS imager
More complete charge transfer is achieved in a CMOS or CCD imager by reducing the spacing in the gaps between gates in each pixel cell, and/or by providing a lightly doped region between adjacent...
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7517716 |
Method of forming optical sensor that includes three pairs of electrodes formed at different depths in a semiconductor substrate
A method for forming an optical sensor. First, a structure which comprises a semiconductor substrate is provided. Then, a first electrode and a fourth electrode are formed at a first depth in the...
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7514290 |
Chip-to-wafer integration technology for three-dimensional chip stacking
This embodiment addresses a novel Chip-to-wafer chip lamination technique that provides low cost and high throughput. In the Chip-to-Chip process, using the temperature rise and utilizing...
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7504278 |
Image sensor and method for manufacturing the same
An image sensor is disclosed where individual photo diodes of the respective unit cells separated by an element isolating layer are physically integrated into a single large scale pixel formed...
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7495206 |
Image sensor with stacked and bonded photo detection and peripheral circuit substrates
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device with a three dimensional integration structure and a method for fabricating the same are provided. An image sensor includes a first substrate...
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7482610 |
Vertical-cavity enhanced resonant thermal emitter
A thermal emitter device includes a cavity structure that comprises an active medium for allowing thermal emissions to occur. A photonic crystal structure is positioned on one side of the cavity...
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7470560 |
Image sensor having a charge storage region provided within an implant region
A deep implanted region of a first conductivity type located below a transistor array of a pixel sensor cell and adjacent a doped region of a second conductivity type of a photodiode of the pixel...
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7449630 |
Solar cell having an integral monolithically grown bypass diode
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for protecting a solar cell. The solar cell includes first solar cell portion. The first solar cell portion includes at least one junction...
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7449359 |
Fabricating method of CMOS image sensor
A fabricating method of a CMOS image sensor is disclosed, by which a light condensing effect is enhanced by providing an inner microlens to a semiconductor substrate. The CMOS image sensor includes...
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7410887 |
Controlled process and resulting device
A technique for forming a film of material ( 12 ) from a donor substrate ( 10 ). The technique has a step of introducing energetic particles ( 22 ) through a surface of a donor substrate ( 10 ) to...
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7348255 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating a semiconductor device
A semiconductor structure has an active region on a substrate, and recessed portions are formed at lower edges of lateral portions of the semiconductor structure. Patterned first insulation layers...
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7288429 |
Image sensor with vertically integrated thin-film photodiode
An image sensor with a vertically integrated thin-film photodiode includes a bottom doped layer of a PIN photodiode imbedded in a dielectric layer, wherein a bottom surface of the bottom doped...
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7238545 |
Method for fabricating tandem thin film photoelectric converter
A method of manufacturing a tandem-type thin film photoelectric conversion device includes the steps of forming at least one photoelectric conversion unit ( 3 ) on a substrate ( 1 ) in a deposition...
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7157303 |
Thin film transistor array substrate and fabricating method thereof
A thin film transistor array substrate structure includes a plurality of data lines; a plurality of gate lines intersecting the data lines to define pixel areas, the gate line being adjacent to at...
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7138289 |
Technique for fabricating multilayer color sensing photodetectors
A multilayer color-sensing photodetector is fabricated in a semiconductor wafer having a single crystal structure to form a first, second and third layer of single crystal semiconductor material. A...
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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...
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7105373 |
Vertical photodiode with heavily-doped regions of alternating conductivity types
A single junction interdigitated photodiode utilizes a stack of alternating highly doped first regions of a first conductivity type and highly doped second regions of a second conductivity type,...
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7060592 |
Image sensor and fabricating method thereof
An image sensor comprising an image sensing device layer, a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) layer, an optical device array and a substrate is provided. The SOI layer has a first surface and a second...
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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...
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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...
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6924167 |
Method of forming a bandgap tuned vertical color imager cell
A combination of materials is used to form the photodiodes of a vertical color imager cell. The materials used to form the photodiodes have different band gaps that allow the photon absorption...
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6864414 |
Apparatus and method for integral bypass diode in solar cells
A solar cell having a multijunction solar cell structure with a bypass diode is disclosed. The bypass diode provides a reverse bias protection for the multijunction solar cell structure. In one...
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6809250 |
Repaired solar panel and method of preparing same
In a method of repairing a solar panel having a defective solar cell or cells, a replacement cell (or cells) is glued onto a defective solar cell or cells of the solar panel, and is electrically...
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6803513 |
Series connected photovoltaic module and method for its manufacture
A photovoltaic module includes at least a first and a second photovoltaic cell each having a substrate electrode, a top electrode and a photovoltaic semiconductor body disposed therebetween in...
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6790706 |
Apparatus and method for leadless packaging of semiconductor devices
The present invention is directed to a leadless and interconnected semiconductor package. The package includes a first chip having bond pads with a second chip having bond pads positioned on the...
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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...
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6743974 |
Silicon solar cell with germanium backside solar cell
A multijunction solar cell comprising a silicon solar cell with a germanium solar cell formed on the backside of the silicon solar cell. The silicon solar cell and germanium solar cell are directly...
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6734452 |
Infrared radiation-detecting device
An Al x Ga 1−x As/GaAs/Al x Ga 1−x As quantum well exhibiting a bound-to-quasibound intersubband absorptive transition is described. The bound-to-quasibound transition exists when the first...
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6723577 |
Method of forming an optical fiber interconnect through a semiconductor wafer
An integrated circuit with a number of optical fibers that are formed in high aspect ratio holes. The high aspect ratio holes extend through a semiconductor wafer. The optical fibers include a...
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6709885 |
Method of fabricating image sensors using a thin film photodiode above active CMOS circuitry
A method of fabricating an image sensor having pin photodiodes residing vertically atop underlying CMOS control circuitry. In the preferred technique, pin photodiodes fabricated in amorphous...
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6677516 |
Photovoltaic cell and process for producing the same
A dye-sensitized photovoltaic cell comprising an electroconductive support, a porous photovoltaic layer constituted with a porous semiconductor layer containing a photosensitizing dye, a hole...
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6653550 |
Integrated thin-film photoelectric conversion module
An integrated thin-film photoelectric conversion module includes a multi-layered film including a first electrode layer, a semiconductor layer and a second electrode layer stacked on a main surface...
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6653165 |
Methods of forming semiconductor element, and semiconductor elements
For efficiently forming a semiconductor element with excellent adhesion and environment resistance, a semiconductor element forming method is configured to have a step of forming a plurality of pin...
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6613974 |
Tandem Si-Ge solar cell with improved conversion efficiency
P-type and n-type regions are defined in the first surface of a substrate upon which is formed an epitaxial layer of preferably Si—Ge material, preferably capped by Si material. During epitaxy...
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6600202 |
Compact sensing apparatus having reduced cross section and methods of mounting same
A compact sensing apparatus having reduced cross section and methods are provided for sensing the magnitude and direction of an electrical or magnetic field. The compact sensing apparatus and...
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6566159 |
Method of manufacturing tandem thin-film solar cell
A method of manufacturing a tandem thin-film solar cell is provided, the solar cell including a plurality of photoelectric conversion units stacked on a substrate, the photoelectric conversion...
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6552259 |
Solar cell with bypass function and multi-junction stacked type solar cell with bypass function, and method for manufacturing these devices
In this bypass-function added solar cell, a plurality of island-like p + regions, which is third regions, are formed at a boundary between a p-type region and an n-type region layer constituting a...
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6541298 |
Method of making infrared sensor with a thermoelectric converting portion
An infrared sensor including a substrate, a plurality of infrared detection pixels arrayed on a substrate with each of the infrared detection pixels including an infrared absorption portion formed...
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6521967 |
Three color quantum well infrared photodetector focal plane array
A three-color QWIP focal plane array is based on a GaAs/AlGaAs material system. Three-color QWIPs enable target recognition and discriminating systems to precisely obtain the temperature of two...
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6437233 |
Solar cell having multi-quantum well layers transitioning from small to large band gaps and method of manufacture therefor
A solar cell comprises a superstrate formed from a material that is transparent to light, a first layer formed of delta doped silicon, a plurality of layers formed from semiconductor materials,...
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6420647 |
Texturing of glass by SiO2 film
A thin film silicon solar cell is provided on a glass substrate, is illustrated, the glass having a textured surface, including larger scale surface features and smaller scale surface features....
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6346811 |
Methods for mounting a sensor and signal conditioner to form sensing apparatus having enhanced sensing capabilities and reduced size
A compact sensing apparatus having reduced cross section and methods are provided for sensing the magnitude and direction of an electrical or magnetic field. The compact sensing apparatus and...
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6316716 |
Solar cell and method for producing such a cell
A solar cell includes a substrate carrier for current generating photoactive layers that include at least one front layer and one layer toward the substrate of different polarities, a front...
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6294794 |
Non-linear optical device using quantum dots
A non-linear optical device includes a plurality of quantum dots in an active layer such that the quantum dots have a composition or doping modified asymmetric in a direction perpendicular to the...
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6288323 |
Thin film photoelectric conversion module and method of manufacturing the same
The present invention provides a thin film photoelectric conversion module, including a substrate and a plurality of thin film photoelectric conversion cells formed on the substrate and connected...
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6278055 |
Stacked organic photosensitive optoelectronic devices with an electrically series configuration
A stacked organic photosensitive optoelectronic device optimized to enhance desired characteristics such as external quantum efficiency and voltage is described. The photosensitive optoelectronic...
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6242686 |
Photovoltaic device and process for producing the same
A photovoltaic device have a pin junction of a p-layer, an i-layer and an n-layer, wherein the p-layer includes a first p-layer and a second p-layer thereover, the first p-layer having a thickness...
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