Y02E 10/548
Amorphous silicon pv cells
Official title: Amorphous silicon PV cells
Y02E10/548 (Amorphous silicon pv cells) appears on 1,746 US grants and 1,884 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y02E- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 1,884
- Assignees
- 673
- Inventors
- 3,518
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Contacts of solar cells and other optoelectronic devices11 Dec 2025US 2025/0380533 A1Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
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