Solar cell and method for manufacture thereof

US5380372A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Nukem, LLC · DE

Inventors

• Hilmar Von Campe · Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, DE
• Horst Ebinger · Salmünster, DE
• Dieter Nikl · Kelkheim, DE
• Wolfgang Warzawa · Hanau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 8, 1992
• Grant date: Jan 10, 1995
• Expiry date: Oct 8, 2012

Classification

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

Abstract

The invention relates to a semiconductor component such as a thin-film solar cell with a seeding layer (20) arranged between a semiconductor layer (21, 22) and a carrier substrate (18). The surface of the carrier substrate (18) facing the seeding layer (20) is sealed or a sealing layer (19) is deposited onto the carrier substrate (18).