Glass support light energy converter

US4173494A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Jack S. Kilby · US

Inventors

• Elwin L. Johnson · Dallas, US
• Jack S. Kilby · Dallas, US
• Jay W. Lathrop · Clemson, US
• John S. McFerren · Dallas, US
• David J. Myers · Sydney, AU

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 14, 1977
• Grant date: Nov 6, 1979
• Expiry date: Feb 14, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S204/03

Abstract

Semiconductor particles are distributed in a single level layer orientation in a glass sheet with portions of each particle exposed at both surfaces of the sheet. A metal layer on one surface of the sheet is in ohmic contact with the body of each particle and forms a common electrode.