Photovoltaic devices including doped semiconductor films

US9263608B2 · 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: Oct 31, 2008
• Grant date: Feb 16, 2016
• Expiry date: Nov 15, 2028

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.