System of architecture and related built-in nanomembranes for the emitter of a light-to-electricity all-silicon converter for the giant photoconversion and the method of its manufacture
US10020408B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 21, 2014 |
| Grant date | Jul 10, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 14, 2034 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P70/50
Abstract
Architecture of the light-to-electricity converter characterized in that the system of amorphized nanograins, preferentially nanograins of amorphized silicon, of any shape are optimally spread within the crystalline host material, preferentially crystalline silicon that are wrapped around with a metamaterial seg-matter nanolayer, characterized by secondary generation centers, called segtons, that are conditioned around divacancies and disposed entirely or only partly within the volume of the emitter, this volume being limited at each end by a nanomembrane assuming the appropriate exploitation of the lower-energy secondary generation through the giant photoconversion involving hot electrons, segtons, and seg-matter.
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