Photovoltaic device having an extended PN junction
US4112457A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 1, 1976 |
| Grant date | Sep 5, 1978 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 1, 1996 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02E10/50
Abstract
A photovoltaic device having essentially only a body of semiconductor material having a first region of one conductivity type in contact with a second region of the opposite conductivity type, forming a portion of the device PN junction therebetween. A plurality of pocket regions of the same conductivity type as the first region extend into the second region thereby further defining a portion of the PN junction in the second region.
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