H10F 77/219
Arrangements for electrodes of back-contact photovoltaic cells
Official title: {Arrangements for electrodes of back-contact photovoltaic cells}
H10F77/219 (Arrangements for electrodes of back-contact photovoltaic cells) appears on 1,275 US grants and 2,042 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Method for producing a via in a III-V multijunction solar cell6 Oct 2026US 12,757,500 B2AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH
- Backside contact solar cells with separated polysilicon doped regions29 Sep 2026US 12,751,094 B2
- Electrode structure of back contact cell, back contact cell, back contact cell module, and back contact cell system29 Sep 2026US 12,751,112 B2Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell, sliced cell and manufacturing method thereof, photovoltaic module, and photovoltaic system22 Sep 2026US 12,745,485 B2Trina Solar Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell and photovoltaic module8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314083 A1Tongwei Solar (Meishan) Co., Ltd.
- Busbar-free heterojunction solar cell and assembly thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314108 A1Ja Solar Technology Yangzhou Co., Ltd.
- Solar Cell, Cell Component, and Photovoltaic System8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314110 A1Guangdong Aiko Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
- Photovoltaic solar cell structure, manufacturing method thereof, and photovoltaic module1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304967 A1Longi Solar Technology (Taizhou) Co., Ltd.
- Back contact solar cell and method for manufacturing same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0305001 A1Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Bilevel contact solar cells219US 5,053,083 AThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 1991
- Three dimensional amorphous silicon/microcrystalline silicon solar cells187US 5,538,564 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1996
- Solar cell arrangement180US 6,441,297 B12002
- Method of fabricating back surface point contact solar cells163US 4,927,770 ABoard of Trustees of the Leland Stanford California Corporation · 1990
- Method of making a back contacted solar cell158US 5,468,652 ASandia Corporation · 1995