Y02E 10/543
Solar cells from group ii-vi materials
Official title: Solar cells from Group II-VI materials
Y02E10/543 (Solar cells from group ii-vi materials) appears on 552 US grants and 700 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y02E- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 700
- Assignees
- 264
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 21 Apr 2026
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| 2025 | 8 | 11 |
| 2026 | 5 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Polymeric Back Interface Layer for CdTe/CdSeTe Solar Cells8 Jan 2026US 2026/0013313 A1The University of Toledo
- Contacts of solar cells and other optoelectronic devices11 Dec 2025US 2025/0380533 A1Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
- Method for manufacturing cdte based thin film solar cell with graded refractive index profile within the cdte-based absorber layer and cdte based thin film solar cell with graded refractive index profile27 Nov 2025US 2025/0366253 A1China Triumph International Engineering Co., Ltd.
- Photovoltaic Devices with Textured TCO Layers, and Methods of Making TCO Stacks2 Oct 2025US 2025/0311473 A1First Solar, Inc.
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By later US patents
- Method of preparing a semiconductor layer for an optical transforming device540US 5,920,798 AMatsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1999
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- 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
- Photovoltaic device162US 5,738,731 ACrystal Device Corporation · 1998