H10F 77/16
Material structures
Official title: Material structures, e.g. crystalline structures, film structures or crystal plane orientations
H10F77/16 (Material structures) appears on 2,949 US grants and 3,912 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 2,949
- Published applications
- 3,912
- Assignees
- 1,257
- Inventors
- 7,240
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 7 | 0 |
| 1978 | 8 | 0 |
| 1979 | 13 | 0 |
| 1980 | 7 | 0 |
| 1981 | 17 | 0 |
| 1982 | 15 | 0 |
| 1983 | 12 | 0 |
| 1984 | 18 | 0 |
| 1985 | 34 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 24 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 21 | 0 |
| 1995 | 28 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 29 | 0 |
| 1998 | 20 | 0 |
| 1999 | 22 | 0 |
| 2000 | 35 | 0 |
| 2001 | 39 | 15 |
| 2002 | 27 | 33 |
| 2003 | 32 | 28 |
| 2004 | 21 | 31 |
| 2005 | 18 | 51 |
| 2006 | 20 | 45 |
| 2007 | 19 | 71 |
| 2008 | 17 | 77 |
| 2009 | 27 | 192 |
| 2010 | 63 | 301 |
| 2011 | 111 | 351 |
| 2012 | 150 | 325 |
| 2013 | 131 | 284 |
| 2014 | 184 | 281 |
| 2015 | 194 | 268 |
| 2016 | 205 | 254 |
| 2017 | 180 | 203 |
| 2018 | 148 | 173 |
| 2019 | 138 | 196 |
| 2020 | 154 | 133 |
| 2021 | 113 | 140 |
| 2022 | 108 | 98 |
| 2023 | 90 | 105 |
| 2024 | 79 | 96 |
| 2025 | 79 | 100 |
| 2026 | 66 | 61 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Heterojunction solar cell and manufacturing method thereof, and photovoltaic module6 Oct 2026US 12,757,501 B2Trina Solar Co., Ltd.
- Article with transparent conductive layer and method of making the same6 Oct 2026US 12,757,521 B2Vitro Flat Glass LLC
- Backside contact solar cells with separated polysilicon doped regions29 Sep 2026US 12,751,094 B2
- Solar blind solid state gallium containing photodiode device and related method29 Sep 2026US 12,751,096 B2Palomino Laboratories, Inc.
- Back contact solar cell and photovoltaic module29 Sep 2026US 12,751,109 B2Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell and photovoltaic module8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314115 A1Tongwei Solar (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell and manufacturing method therefor1 Oct 2026US 2026/0305003 A1Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
- Power routing module with a switching matrix for a solar cell array24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293325 A1The Boeing Company
- Photoelectric device based on quantum dots and its manufacturing method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293332 A1University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University
- Germanium-silicon light sensing apparatus ii24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293334 A1Artilux, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and devices for fabricating and assembling printable semiconductor elements883US 7,622,367 B1The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2009
- Stretchable semiconductor elements and stretchable electrical circuits765US 7,557,367 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2009
- Stretchable form of single crystal silicon for high performance electronics on rubber substrates525US 7,521,292 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2009
- Film forming method and film forming apparatus473US 8,586,484 B2Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. · 2013
- Printable semiconductor structures and related methods of making and assembling422US 7,799,699 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2010