H10F 10/161
Comprising multiple pn heterojunctions
Official title: comprising multiple PN heterojunctions, e.g. tandem cells
H10F10/161 (Comprising multiple pn heterojunctions) appears on 539 US grants and 820 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 539
- Published applications
- 820
- Assignees
- 293
- Inventors
- 1,101
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 24 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- 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.
- Photovoltaic power generation systems and methods regarding same8 Sep 2026US 12,732,131 B2Brilliant Light Power, Inc.
- Generation of textured surfaces, manufacturing of tandem solar cells, and tandem solar cell25 Aug 2026US 12,720,874 B2Singulus Technologies AG
- Multijunction solar cell25 Aug 2026US 12,720,875 B2SolAero Technologies Corp.
- Tandem perovskite solar cell and manufacturing method thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314248 A1Hanwha Solutions Corporation
- Tandem solar cell, manufacturing method thereof, and photovoltaic module16 Jul 2026US 2026/0206328 A1Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
- Inverted metamorphic multijunction solar cells having a permanent supporting substrate2 Jul 2026US 2026/0190504 A1SolAero Technologies Corp.
- Solar cell, tandem solar cell, and photovoltaic module25 Jun 2026US 2026/0182086 A1Jinko Solar (Haining) Co., Ltd.
- Absorber, solar cell and process for producing an absorber18 Jun 2026US 2026/0173573 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly564US 7,972,875 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2011
- Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly346US 8,722,458 B2Semprius, Inc. · 2014
- Release strategies for making transferable semiconductor structures, devices and device components321US 7,932,123 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2011
- Release strategies for making transferable semiconductor structures, devices and device components208US 8,895,406 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2014
- InGaAsN/GaAs heterojunction for multi-junction solar cells184US 6,252,287 B1Sandia Corporation · 2001