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US 2011/0030776 A1Published application
Photovoltaic device back contact
OwnerBenyamin Buller, Akhlesh Gupta +1inventors
InventorsBenyamin Buller, Akhlesh Gupta, Syed Zafar
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Abstract
A photovoltaic device back contact is disclosed. The back contact can include an indium nitride.
Claims20
A photovoltaic device comprising:
- a substrate;
- a transparent conductive oxide layer adjacent to the substrate;
- a semiconductor layer adjacent to the transparent conductive oxide layer, the semiconductor layer comprising a semiconductor absorber layer and a semiconductor window layer;
- and
- a back contact layer adjacent to the semiconductor layer, wherein the back contact layer comprises an indium nitride.
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A method of manufacturing a photovoltaic device comprising the steps of:
- depositing a transparent conductive oxide layer adjacent to a substrate;
- depositing a semiconductor window layer adjacent to the transparent conductive oxide layer;
- depositing a semiconductor absorber layer adjacent to the semiconductor window layer;
- and
- depositing a back contact layer adjacent to the semiconductor absorber layer, wherein the back contact layer includes an indium nitride.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.