H10F 10/165
The heterojunctions being group iv-iv heterojunctions
Official title: the heterojunctions being Group IV-IV heterojunctions, e.g. Si/Ge, SiGe/Si or Si/SiC photovoltaic cells
H10F10/165 (The heterojunctions being group iv-iv heterojunctions) appears on 907 US grants and 1,495 published applications in this corpus.
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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.
- Solar cell and preparing method therefor, and photovoltaic module27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255725 A1Tongwei Solar (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.
- Backside-contact solar cell and method for producing a backside-contact solar cell27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255726 A1Silfab Solar Cells SC Inc.
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
- Photovoltaic device100US 5,213,628 ASanyo Electric Co., Ltd. · 1993
- Solar cell having doped semiconductor heterojunction contacts92US 7,737,357 B2SunPower Corporation · 2010
- Process for producing a thin silicon solar cell89US 5,403,751 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1995