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AssigneeEmcore Solar Power, Inc.
InventorsClaiborne McPheeters, Daniel Derkacs
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A solar cell assembly comprising a plurality of solar cells, each solar cell of the plurality of solar cells being shaped as a portion of a circle, the portion having at least one curved edge having a shape of the arc of the circumference of said circle and at least one straight edge, the portion having a surface area corresponding to not more than 50% of the surface area of the circle. This makes it possible to make efficient use of the material of the wafer from which the solar cells are produced by reducing waste, while arrangement of the solar cells into rectangular unit cells enables construction of substantially rectangular solar cell arrays and assemblies that have their surface area covered substantially by solar cells with little area unoccupied by solar cells.
A solar cell assembly comprising a plurality of solar cells, each solar cell of the plurality of solar cells substantially being shaped as a sector of a circle, the portion having at least one curved edge having a shape of an arc of a circumference of said circle and at least one straight edge, the portion having a surface area corresponding to not more than 50% of a surface area of said circle,
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A method of producing a solar cell assembly comprising:
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