H10F 10/167
Comprising group i-iii-vi materials
Official title: comprising Group I-III-VI materials, e.g. CdS/CuInSe2 [CIS] heterojunction photovoltaic cells
H10F10/167 (Comprising group i-iii-vi materials) appears on 638 US grants and 1,111 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 638
- Published applications
- 1,111
- Assignees
- 294
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Article with transparent conductive layer and method of making the same6 Oct 2026US 12,757,521 B2Vitro Flat Glass LLC
- Article with transparent conductive oxide coating16 Jun 2026US 12,660,368 B2Vitro Flat Glass LLC
- Method for manufacturing stacked thin film, method for manufacturing solar cell, multi-junction solar cell, solar cell module, and photovoltaic power generation system12 May 2026US 12,628,458 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Photoelectric conversion element and method for manufacturing photoelectric conversion element12 May 2026US 12,628,460 B2Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
- Thin-film photovoltaic module with silver sulfide coating and preparation method thereof31 Mar 2026US 12,593,530 B2Cnbm Research Institute for Advanced Glass Materials Group Co., Ltd.
- Article with Transparent Conductive Oxide Coating24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293366 A1Vitro Flat Glass LLC
- Photoelectric conversion element, photovoltalic module, flying object and method for manufacturing photoelectric conversion element17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282562 A1Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
- Photoelectric conversion element, photoelectric conversion module, and paddle10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271429 A1Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
- Laminated body, electronic device, solar cell, multi-junction solar cell, solar cell module, and photovoltaic power generation system26 Mar 2026US 2026/0090139 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Method for reuse of gaas substrate employed for epitaxial cigs solar cell29 Jan 2026US 2026/0033034 A1Korea Institute of Energy Technology
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fabrication of thin-film, flexible photovoltaic module241US 6,372,538 B1Global Solar Energy, Inc. · 2002
- Solar cell with chalcopyrite absorber layer239US 5,626,688 ASiemens Aktiengesellschaft · 1997
- Thin film solar cell and method of making173US 4,915,745 AAtlantic Richfield Company · 1990
- Nozzle-based, vapor-phase, plume delivery structure for use in production of thin-film deposition layer171US 7,194,197 B1Global Solar Energy, Inc. · 2007
- Methods for forming thin-film heterojunction solar cells from I-III-VI.sub. 2167US 4,335,266 AThe Boeing Company · 1982