H10F 10/18
Photovoltaic cells having only schottky potential barriers
Official title: Photovoltaic cells having only Schottky potential barriers
H10F10/18 (Photovoltaic cells having only schottky potential barriers) appears on 172 US grants and 155 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 172
- Published applications
- 155
- Assignees
- 126
- Inventors
- 460
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 7 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 9 | 0 |
| 1980 | 7 | 0 |
| 1981 | 11 | 0 |
| 1982 | 8 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 5 |
| 2007 | 0 | 5 |
| 2008 | 0 | 3 |
| 2009 | 1 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 | 12 |
| 2011 | 4 | 10 |
| 2012 | 4 | 10 |
| 2013 | 9 | 13 |
| 2014 | 8 | 17 |
| 2015 | 9 | 10 |
| 2016 | 8 | 11 |
| 2017 | 6 | 4 |
| 2018 | 8 | 8 |
| 2019 | 8 | 6 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 | 9 |
| 2022 | 4 | 3 |
| 2023 | 4 | 5 |
| 2024 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Energy harvest and storage device for semiconductor chips and methods for forming the same28 Jul 2026US 12,696,549 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Super CMOS devices on a microelectronics system6 Jan 2026US 12,520,572 B2Schottky Lsi, Inc.
- Systems and methods for non-epitaxial high Schottky-barrier heterojunction solar cells26 Aug 2025US 12,402,418 B2California Institute of Technology
- Schottky-barrier type infrared photodetector3 Dec 2024US 12,159,953 B2Imperial College Innovations Limited
- CdSeTe photovoltaic devices with interdigitated back contact architecture29 Oct 2024US 12,132,136 B2Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
- Liquid transducer radioisotope-powered nuclear voltaic system9 Jul 2026US 2026/0196375 A1Nubatt Pte. Ltd.
- Large-area schottky-junction photovoltaics using transition-metal dichalcogenides2 Oct 2025US 2025/0311472 A1The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
- Photoelectric conversion element and photoelectric conversion device26 Jun 2025US 2025/0212549 A1Tohoku University
- Vehicle roof solar panel with a variable dimming feature10 Apr 2025US 2025/0120218 A1Fca US LLC
- Super cmos devices on a microelectronics system6 Mar 2025US 2025/0081596 A1Schottky Lsi, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nanophotovoltaic devices501US 7,514,725 B2Spire Corporation · 2009
- High temperature amorphous semiconductor member and method of making the same225US 4,177,474 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1979
- Method for improving the crystallinity of semiconductor films by laser beam scanning and the products thereof160US 4,059,461 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1977
- Semiconductor p-n junction solar cell and method of manufacture91US 4,001,864 A1977
- Particulate semiconductor devices and methods88US 4,947,219 AChronar Corp. · 1990