Photovoltaic device with protective layer over a window layer and method of manufacture of the same

US9276154B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• First Solar, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Daniel Damjanovic · Perrysburg, US
• Jing Guo · Kunshan, CN
• Sreenivas Jayaraman · Maumee, US
• Oleh Karpenko · San Jose, US
• Feng Liao · Perrysburg, US
• Chong Lim · Perrysburg, US
• Rick C. Powell · Ann Arbor, US
• Jigish Trivedi · Boise, US
• Zhibo Zhao · Ann Arbor, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 3, 2014
• Grant date: Mar 1, 2016
• Expiry date: Feb 3, 2034

Classification

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

Abstract

A photovoltaic device including a protective layer between a window layer and an absorber layer, the protective layer inhibiting dissolving/intermixing of the window layer into the absorber layer during a device activation step, and methods of forming such photovoltaic devices.