H10F 10/163
Comprising only group iii-v materials
Official title: comprising only Group III-V materials, e.g. GaAs/AlGaAs or InP/GaInAs photovoltaic cells
H10F10/163 (Comprising only group iii-v materials) appears on 373 US grants and 523 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 373
- Published applications
- 523
- Assignees
- 178
- Inventors
- 682
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 5 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 4 |
| 2004 | 2 | 3 |
| 2005 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 5 |
| 2007 | 2 | 5 |
| 2008 | 0 | 15 |
| 2009 | 3 | 15 |
| 2010 | 6 | 42 |
| 2011 | 8 | 37 |
| 2012 | 12 | 44 |
| 2013 | 18 | 22 |
| 2014 | 24 | 30 |
| 2015 | 31 | 41 |
| 2016 | 27 | 30 |
| 2017 | 23 | 40 |
| 2018 | 28 | 41 |
| 2019 | 33 | 22 |
| 2020 | 25 | 29 |
| 2021 | 30 | 25 |
| 2022 | 20 | 27 |
| 2023 | 23 | 10 |
| 2024 | 15 | 16 |
| 2025 | 9 | 9 |
| 2026 | 11 | 6 |
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.
- Multijunction solar cell25 Aug 2026US 12,720,875 B2SolAero Technologies Corp.
- Method for manufacturing a solar cell11 Aug 2026US 12,707,727 B2Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell structures for improved current generation and collection14 Jul 2026US 12,684,877 B2The Boeing Company
- Solar cell design for improved performance at low temperature1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304965 A1The Boeing Company
- Semitransparent thermophotovoltaic architecture2 Jul 2026US 2026/0189174 A1The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Electronic device and method for producing the same18 Jun 2026US 2026/0173580 A1Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.
- Automated assembly methods for fabricating space vehicles28 May 2026US 2026/0150431 A1SolAero Technologies Corp.
- Iii-v photovoltaic multi-junction solar cell19 Mar 2026US 2026/0082730 A1AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Lattice matched solar cell and method for manufacturing the same152US 6,300,558 B1Japan Energy Corporation · 2001
- Solar cells employing stacked opposite conductivity layers141US 4,017,332 AVarian Associates, Inc. · 1977