Photovoltaic devices including doped semiconductor films

US10319873B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• First Solar, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Rick C. Powell · Ann Arbor, US
• Upali Jayamaha · Perrysburg, US
• Anke Abken · Whitehouse, US
• Markus Gloeckler · Perrysburg, US
• Akhlesh Gupta · Sylvania, US
• Roger T. Green · Holden, US
• Peter V. Meyers · Coopersburg, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 13, 2016
• Grant date: Jun 11, 2019
• Expiry date: Nov 17, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P70/50

Abstract

A photovoltaic cell can include a dopant in contact with a semiconductor layer.