H10F 10/164
Comprising heterojunctions with group iv materials
Official title: comprising heterojunctions with Group IV materials, e.g. ITO/Si or GaAs/SiGe photovoltaic cells
H10F10/164 (Comprising heterojunctions with group iv materials) appears on 1,060 US grants and 1,669 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 1,060
- Published applications
- 1,669
- Assignees
- 382
- Inventors
- 2,117
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 2 | 7 |
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| 2009 | 2 | 49 |
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| 2011 | 31 | 62 |
| 2012 | 27 | 90 |
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| 2014 | 44 | 110 |
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| 2017 | 74 | 105 |
| 2018 | 68 | 110 |
| 2019 | 91 | 95 |
| 2020 | 66 | 68 |
| 2021 | 51 | 42 |
| 2022 | 57 | 60 |
| 2023 | 52 | 78 |
| 2024 | 68 | 133 |
| 2025 | 88 | 126 |
| 2026 | 71 | 98 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Backside contact solar cells with separated polysilicon doped regions29 Sep 2026US 12,751,094 B2
- Method for treating a photovoltaic module by light soaking15 Sep 2026US 12,740,178 B2Commissariat A L' Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
- Back contact solar cell, method for manufacturing the same, and photovoltaic module18 Aug 2026US 12,713,712 B2Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell and photovoltaic module18 Aug 2026US 12,713,734 B2Jinko Solar (Haining) Co., Ltd.
- Method for manufacturing a solar cell11 Aug 2026US 12,707,727 B2Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd.
- Solar Cell, Cell Component, and Photovoltaic System8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314110 A1Guangdong Aiko Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell and manufacturing method therefor24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293324 A1Ja Solar Technology Yangzhou Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell, manufacturing method for solar cell, and photovoltaic module27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255719 A1Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd.
- Layer stack, method and process system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255722 A1Von Ardenne Asset GmbH & Co. KG
- Solar cell and preparing method therefor, and photovoltaic module27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255725 A1Tongwei Solar (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Structures and devices including germanium-tin films and methods of forming same470US 9,793,115 B2ASM IP Holding B. V. · 2017
- Back side contact solar cell with doped polysilicon regions170US 7,468,485 B1SunPower Corporation · 2008
- Method of forming semiconducting materials and barriers124US 4,226,897 APlasma Physics Corp. · 1980
- Photovoltaic device100US 5,213,628 ASanyo Electric Co., Ltd. · 1993
- Solar cell having doped semiconductor heterojunction contacts92US 7,737,357 B2SunPower Corporation · 2010