H10F 71/1257
Comprising growth substrates not made of group ii-vi materials
Official title: {comprising growth substrates not made of Group II-VI materials}
H10F71/1257 (Comprising growth substrates not made of group ii-vi materials) appears on 186 US grants and 238 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 186
- Published applications
- 238
- Assignees
- 130
- Inventors
- 537
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 3 | 8 |
| 2003 | 9 | 4 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 4 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 9 |
| 2009 | 2 | 10 |
| 2010 | 5 | 26 |
| 2011 | 8 | 41 |
| 2012 | 26 | 29 |
| 2013 | 10 | 14 |
| 2014 | 12 | 18 |
| 2015 | 11 | 15 |
| 2016 | 12 | 10 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10 |
| 2018 | 9 | 4 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9 |
| 2020 | 2 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 | 6 |
| 2022 | 5 | 2 |
| 2023 | 4 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Semiconductor device and production method thereof90US 6,653,701 B1Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. · 2003
- ZnO/Cu(InGa)Se2 solar cells prepared by vapor phase Zn doping88US 7,179,677 B2Midwest Research Institute · 2007