Y02E 10/541
Cuinse2 material pv cells
Official title: CuInSe2 material PV cells
Y02E10/541 (Cuinse2 material pv cells) appears on 1,383 US grants and 2,412 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y02E- Granted patents
- 1,383
- Published applications
- 2,412
- Assignees
- 553
- Inventors
- 3,153
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 8 | 7 |
| 2026 | 7 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Article with transparent conductive layer and method of making the same6 Oct 2026US 12,757,521 B2Vitro Flat Glass LLC
- Article with transparent conductive oxide coating16 Jun 2026US 12,660,368 B2Vitro Flat Glass LLC
- Method of patterning a thin-film photovoltaic layer stack26 May 2026US 12,641,890 B2First Solar, Inc.
- Photoelectric conversion element and method for manufacturing photoelectric conversion element12 May 2026US 12,628,460 B2Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
- Method for post-treating an absorber layer17 Feb 2026US 12,557,425 B2Cnbm Research Institute for Advanced Glass Materials Group Co., Ltd.
- Article with Transparent Conductive Oxide Coating24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293366 A1Vitro Flat Glass LLC
- Solar cell, multi-junction solar cell, solar cell module, and photovoltaic power generation system23 Jul 2026US 2026/0215002 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Cigs solar cell with both transparency and flexibility and its manufacturing method1 Jan 2026US 2026/0006938 A1Korea Institute of Science and Technology
- Photovoltaic device11 Sep 2025US 2025/0287769 A1Oxford Photovoltaics Limited
- Bifacial thin film solar cell and method for fabricating the same29 May 2025US 2025/0176305 A1Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fabrication of thin-film, flexible photovoltaic module241US 6,372,538 B1Global Solar Energy, Inc. · 2002
- Solar cell with chalcopyrite absorber layer239US 5,626,688 ASiemens Aktiengesellschaft · 1997
- Thin-film solar cells205US 6,974,976 B2Miasole · 2005
- Image sensor with microcrystalline germanium photodiode layer178US 7,276,749 B2e-Phocus, Inc. · 2007
- Thin film solar cell and method of making173US 4,915,745 AAtlantic Richfield Company · 1990