H10F 10/142
Comprising multiple pn homojunctions
Official title: comprising multiple PN homojunctions, e.g. tandem cells
H10F10/142 (Comprising multiple pn homojunctions) appears on 679 US grants and 975 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 975
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 20 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Multilayer junction photoelectric conversion element and method for manufacturing the same6 Oct 2026US 12,757,499 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Method for producing a via in a III-V multijunction solar cell6 Oct 2026US 12,757,500 B2AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH
- Use of a low bandgap absorber region in a laser power converter29 Sep 2026US 12,751,093 B2The Boeing Company
- Multijunction metamorphic solar cells29 Sep 2026US 12,751,095 B2SolAero Technologies Corp.
- Multijunction solar cell25 Aug 2026US 12,720,875 B2SolAero Technologies Corp.
- Power routing module with a switching matrix for a solar cell array24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293325 A1The Boeing Company
- Passivated contact structure, solar cell and preparation method therefor, and photovoltaic module3 Sep 2026US 2026/0262322 A1Tongwei Solar (Meishan) Co., Ltd.
- Prefabricated conductors on a substrate to facilitate corner connections for a solar cell array30 Jul 2026US 2026/0223464 A1The Boeing Company
- Solar cell module, multi-junction solar cell module, and photovoltaic power generation system23 Jul 2026US 2026/0215004 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Tandem solar cell, manufacturing method thereof, and photovoltaic module16 Jul 2026US 2026/0206328 A1Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of fabricating epitaxial structures827US 8,455,290 B2Masimo Semiconductor, Inc. · 2013
- Method of fabricating bifacial tandem solar cells756US 8,852,994 B2Masimo Semiconductor, Inc. · 2014
- Bifacial tandem solar cells511US 9,368,671 B2Masimo Semiconductor, Inc. · 2016
- Method of producing sheets of crystalline material345US 4,727,047 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1988
- Release strategies for making transferable semiconductor structures, devices and device components321US 7,932,123 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2011