Y02E 10/545
Microcrystalline silicon pv cells
Official title: Microcrystalline silicon PV cells
Y02E10/545 (Microcrystalline silicon pv cells) appears on 262 US grants and 386 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y02E- Granted patents
- 262
- Published applications
- 386
- Assignees
- 153
- Inventors
- 715
- Latest grant
- 1 Jul 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same1 Jul 2025US 12,349,502 B2Trina Solar Co., Ltd.
- Blister-free polycrystalline silicon for solar cells24 Dec 2024US 12,176,449 B2Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.
- Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly5 Nov 2024US 12,136,620 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
- Solar cell separation with edge coating19 Sep 2023US 11,764,315 B2Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.
- Solar cell apparatus and method for forming the same for single, tandem and heterojunction systems6 Jun 2023US 11,670,729 B2Sun Company, Inc.
- Solar cell and method of manufacturing the same6 Aug 2026US 2026/0231536 A1Shangrao Jinko solar Technology Development Co., LTD
- Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same6 Feb 2025US 2025/0048777 A1Trina Solar Co., Ltd.
- Solar cell separation with edge coating4 Jan 2024US 2024/0006542 A1Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.
- Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same29 Jun 2023US 2023/0207712 A1Shangrao Jinko solar Technology Development Co., LTD
- Solar cell and method of manufacturing the same16 Mar 2023US 2023/0078624 A1Shangrao Jinko solar Technology Development Co., LTD
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly564US 7,972,875 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2011
- Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly346US 8,722,458 B2Semprius, Inc. · 2014
- P and n-type microcrystalline semiconductor alloy material including band gap widening elements, devices utilizing same277US 4,775,425 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1988
- High efficiency photovoltaic device248US 5,977,476 AUnited Solar Systems Corporation · 1999
- Three dimensional amorphous silicon/microcrystalline silicon solar cells187US 5,538,564 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1996