H10F 10/172
Comprising multiple pin junctions
Official title: comprising multiple PIN junctions, e.g. tandem cells
H10F10/172 (Comprising multiple pin junctions) appears on 415 US grants and 545 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 545
- Assignees
- 213
- Inventors
- 1,077
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2002 | 16 | 12 |
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| 2005 | 4 | 16 |
| 2006 | 4 | 9 |
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| 2008 | 2 | 25 |
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| 2010 | 8 | 81 |
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| 2012 | 23 | 70 |
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| 2021 | 4 | 3 |
| 2022 | 5 | 7 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 12 |
| 2025 | 2 | 7 |
| 2026 | 9 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Bi-facial light-receiving silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell6 Oct 2026US 12,757,561 B1Hanwha Solutions Corporation
- Three-dimensional framework silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell and its preparation method28 Jul 2026US 12,696,548 B2Hefei Polytechnic University
- Strong oxide transport layer with clusters and gap fill layer30 Jun 2026US 12,672,418 B2Swift Solar Inc.
- Scalable van der Waals superlattices for absorbers and emitters2 Jun 2026US 12,648,257 B2The Regents of the University of California
- Waveguide edge having reduced reflectivity19 May 2026US 12,635,260 B2Snap Inc.
- Tandem solar cell module assembly1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303011 A1TSEC Corporation
- Method for producing perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271607 A1Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin FüR Materialien Und Energie GmbH
- Solar cell, multijunction solar cell, solar cell module, solar power generation system, and method for manufacturing solar cell19 Mar 2026US 2026/0082708 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Solar cell, method for preparing the same, and photovoltaic module5 Mar 2026US 2026/0068354 A1Jinko Solar (Shangrao) Co., Ltd
- Photovoltaic cell assembly with ultraviolet filtering5 Feb 2026US 2026/0040727 A1Tandem PV
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By later US patents
- 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
- Method of fabricating n-type and p-type microcrystalline semiconductor alloy material including band gap widening elements242US 4,891,330 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1990