H10F 10/11
Photovoltaic cells having point contact potential barriers
Official title: Photovoltaic cells having point contact potential barriers (H10F10/18 takes precedence)
H10F10/11 (Photovoltaic cells having point contact potential barriers) appears on 56 US grants and 67 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 56
- Published applications
- 67
- Assignees
- 52
- Inventors
- 141
- Latest grant
- 24 Feb 2026
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| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Solar cells having hybrid architectures including differentiated p-type and n-type regions with offset contacts24 Feb 2026US 12,563,846 B2Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.
- Solar cells having hybrid architectures including differentiated p-type and n-type regions with offset contacts18 Feb 2025US 12,230,724 B2Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.
- Contacts for solar cells18 Feb 2025US 12,230,727 B2Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.
- Solar cell, photovoltaic module, and method for manufacturing photovoltaic module14 Jan 2025US 12,199,195 B2Jinko Solar Co., Ltd.
- Laminated passivation structure of solar cell and preparation method thereof31 Dec 2024US 12,183,839 B2Trina Solar Co., Ltd.
- Method of manufacturing point contact solar cells and apparatus using the same9 Apr 2026US 2026/0101593 A1Terasolar Energy Materials Corp.
- Method of manufacturing point contact solar cells and apparatus using the same9 Apr 2026US 2026/0101606 A1Terasolar Energy Materials Corp.
- Solar cells having hybrid architectures including differentiated p-type and n-type regions with offset contacts22 May 2025US 2025/0169201 A1Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.
- Photovoltaic module and method for manufacturing the same10 Oct 2024US 2024/0339551 A1Meyer Burger (Germany) GmbH
- Flexible Solar Panels and Photovoltaic Devices, and Methods and Systems for Producing Them15 Aug 2024US 2024/0274734 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of fabricating back surface point contact solar cells163US 4,927,770 ABoard of Trustees of the Leland Stanford California Corporation · 1990
- Fast process flow, on-wafer interconnection and singulation for MEPV80US 9,559,219 B1Sandia Corporation · 2017
- Solar cell59US 5,100,478 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1992
- Method of making passivated antireflective coating for photovoltaic cell55US 5,011,782 AElectric Power Research Institute, Inc. · 1991
- Solar cell and cell mount46US 4,836,861 ATactical Fabs, Inc. · 1989