H10F 10/17
Photovoltaic cells having only pin junction potential barriers
Official title: Photovoltaic cells having only PIN junction potential barriers
H10F10/17 (Photovoltaic cells having only pin junction potential barriers) appears on 1,168 US grants and 1,360 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 1,168
- Published applications
- 1,360
- Assignees
- 486
- Inventors
- 2,578
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 32 | 9 |
| 2002 | 29 | 18 |
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| 2004 | 12 | 17 |
| 2005 | 9 | 24 |
| 2006 | 8 | 20 |
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| 2008 | 5 | 51 |
| 2009 | 8 | 70 |
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| 2023 | 27 | 17 |
| 2024 | 20 | 32 |
| 2025 | 18 | 27 |
| 2026 | 19 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Heterojunction solar cell and manufacturing method thereof, and photovoltaic module6 Oct 2026US 12,757,501 B2Trina Solar Co., Ltd.
- Bi-facial light-receiving silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell6 Oct 2026US 12,757,561 B1Hanwha Solutions Corporation
- Composition29 Sep 2026US 12,751,197 B1Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
- Three-dimensional framework silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell and its preparation method28 Jul 2026US 12,696,548 B2Hefei Polytechnic University
- Silicon solar cell and module7 Jul 2026US 12,677,502 B2Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
- Tandem solar cell module assembly1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303011 A1TSEC Corporation
- Germanium-silicon light sensing apparatus ii24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293334 A1Artilux, Inc.
- Back contact solar cell, manufacturing method thereof, and photovoltaic module10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271426 A1Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd.
- Method for producing perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271607 A1Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin FüR Materialien Und Energie GmbH
- Process for the formation of a perovskite layer in particular for a photovoltaic cell3 Sep 2026US 2026/0262435 A1Singulus Technologies AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Film forming method and film forming apparatus473US 8,586,484 B2Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. · 2013
- Photovoltaic module framing system with integral electrical raceways293US 6,111,189 ABP Solarex · 2000
- P and n-type microcrystalline semiconductor alloy material including band gap widening elements, devices utilizing same277US 4,775,425 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1988
- Photovoltaic roof system248US 5,232,518 AUnited Solar Systems Corporation · 1993
- High efficiency photovoltaic device248US 5,977,476 AUnited Solar Systems Corporation · 1999