H10F 71/125
The active layers comprising only group ii-vi materials
Official title: {The active layers comprising only Group II-VI materials, e.g. CdS, ZnS or CdTe}
H10F71/125 (The active layers comprising only group ii-vi materials) appears on 787 US grants and 829 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 787
- Published applications
- 829
- Assignees
- 388
- Inventors
- 1,660
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 12 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Photovoltaic devices with narrow scribes and methods and systems for forming the same29 Sep 2026US 12,751,107 B2First Solar, Inc.
- Camera having a reduced dark current photodetector4 Aug 2026US 12,701,818 B2
- Low-stress dielectric layer, planarization method, and low-temperature processing for 3D-integrated electrical device14 Jul 2026US 12,684,896 B2Raytheon Company
- Stack structure and manufacturing method thereof, capacitor using the same, transistor using the same, dye-sensitized solar cell using the same, and architectural film for window glass coating using the same30 Jun 2026US 12,672,381 B2Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
- Method for producing transparent conductive coatings for emi protection using HiPIMS26 May 2026US 12,637,753 B2Raytheon Company
- Photoelectric device based on quantum dots and its manufacturing method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293332 A1University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University
- Doped photovoltaic semiconductor layers and methods of making3 Sep 2026US 2026/0262325 A1First Solar, Inc.
- Electrical field-assisted ultrafast doping in the polycrystalline cdte solar technology27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255718 A1Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
- Photovoltaic cell preparation method and photovoltaic cell21 May 2026US 2026/0143847 A1Jinko Solar (Shangrao) Co., Ltd
- Method for manufacturing a copper-free CdTe based thin film solar cell device26 Mar 2026US 2026/0090130 A1China Triumph International Engineering Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of preparing a semiconductor layer for an optical transforming device540US 5,920,798 AMatsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1999
- Semiconductor P-I-N detector531US 6,255,708 B12001
- Photovoltaic cell having a p-type polycrystalline layer with large crystals176US 5,501,744 APhoton Energy, Inc. · 1996
- Process for making photovoltaic devices and resultant product168US 5,536,333 ASolar Cells, Inc. · 1996
- Thin-film, flexible photovoltaic module165US 6,310,281 B1Global Solar Energy, Inc. · 2001