Photovoltaic devices including doped semiconductor films

US10861994B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• First Solar, Inc. · US

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 10, 2019
• Grant date: Dec 8, 2020
• Expiry date: Jun 10, 2039

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.