H10F 77/164
Polycrystalline semiconductors
H10F77/164 (Polycrystalline semiconductors) appears on 597 US grants and 742 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 597
- Published applications
- 742
- Assignees
- 341
- Inventors
- 1,546
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1980 | 5 | 0 |
| 1981 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 9 | 4 |
| 2002 | 8 | 13 |
| 2003 | 9 | 6 |
| 2004 | 7 | 7 |
| 2005 | 5 | 9 |
| 2006 | 4 | 5 |
| 2007 | 5 | 11 |
| 2008 | 5 | 6 |
| 2009 | 2 | 31 |
| 2010 | 9 | 50 |
| 2011 | 11 | 84 |
| 2012 | 31 | 46 |
| 2013 | 16 | 39 |
| 2014 | 39 | 53 |
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| 2017 | 41 | 48 |
| 2018 | 26 | 24 |
| 2019 | 32 | 43 |
| 2020 | 32 | 23 |
| 2021 | 19 | 16 |
| 2022 | 24 | 21 |
| 2023 | 19 | 21 |
| 2024 | 16 | 27 |
| 2025 | 21 | 29 |
| 2026 | 18 | 22 |
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.
- Backside contact solar cells with separated polysilicon doped regions29 Sep 2026US 12,751,094 B2
- Back contact solar cell and photovoltaic module29 Sep 2026US 12,751,109 B2Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
- Back contact solar cell and method for preparing same, and battery assembly8 Sep 2026US 12,733,291 B2Trina Solar Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell and preparation method therefor18 Aug 2026US 12,713,731 B2Tongwei Solar (Meishan) Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell and photovoltaic module8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314115 A1Tongwei Solar (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell and preparation method thereof17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282594 A1Jinko Solar (Haining) Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell, method for preparing solar cell, and solar cell production line17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282598 A1Laplace Renewable Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell, manufacturing method thereof, and photovoltaic module3 Sep 2026US 2026/0262323 A1Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell, manufacturing method for solar cell, and photovoltaic module27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255719 A1Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- P and n-type microcrystalline semiconductor alloy material including band gap widening elements, devices utilizing same277US 4,775,425 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1988
- Method of forming an electronic device using a separation-enhancing species262US 7,749,884 B2AstroWatt, Inc. · 2010
- High efficiency photovoltaic device248US 5,977,476 AUnited Solar Systems Corporation · 1999
- Method of fabricating n-type and p-type microcrystalline semiconductor alloy material including band gap widening elements242US 4,891,330 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1990
- Three dimensional amorphous silicon/microcrystalline silicon solar cells187US 5,538,564 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1996