H10F 10/19
Photovoltaic cells having multiple potential barriers of different types
Official title: Photovoltaic cells having multiple potential barriers of different types, e.g. tandem cells having both PN and PIN junctions
H10F10/19 (Photovoltaic cells having multiple potential barriers of different types) appears on 292 US grants and 434 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 434
- Assignees
- 189
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Tandem solar cell, manufacturing method thereof, and photovoltaic module16 Jul 2026US 2026/0206328 A1Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
- Bi-facial light-receiving silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell16 Jul 2026US 2026/0206330 A1Hanwha Solutions Corporation
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Photovoltaic module framing system with integral electrical raceways293US 6,111,189 ABP Solarex · 2000
- Photovoltaic module framing system with integral electrical raceways194US 6,465,724 B1BP Solar International Ltd. · 2002
- Photovoltaic device162US 5,738,731 ACrystal Device Corporation · 1998
- Multi-junction, monolithic solar cell using low-band-gap materials lattice matched to GaAs or Ge152US 6,281,426 B1Midwest Research Institute · 2001
- Photovoltaic device103US 4,981,525 ASanyo Electric Co., Ltd. · 1991