Patents
US 11784272 B2: Multijunction solar cell
- Granted
- 2023-10-10
- Filed
- 2022-04-28 application 17731399
- Type
- Utility · 19 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
A multijunction solar cell including a substrate and a top (or light-facing) solar subcell having an emitter layer, a base layer, and a window layer adjacent to the emitter layer, the window layer composed of a material that is optically transparent, has a band gap of greater than 2.6 eV, and includes an appropriately arranged multilayer antireflection coating on the top surface thereof.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg231010.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SolAero Technologies Corp 189 patents | US company or organization | Albuquerque, NM | SOLAERO TECHNOLOGIES CORP State business registration EXACT high confidence: identical full name and state SOLAERO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Federal lobbying client FUZZY medium confidence: same name (legal endings aside) and state | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Derkacs | Albuquerque, NM | 84 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Andrew Espenlaub | Albuquerque, NM | 14 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| H10F | Inorganic semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation | H10F10/13 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| B64G | Cosmonautics; vehicles or equipment therefor | B64G1/2222 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| Y02E | Reduction of greenhouse gas [ghg] emissions, related to energy generation, transmission or distribution | Y02E10/544 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).
Assignments and security interests
| Recorded | What | From | To | Reel/frame | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-02 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | DERKACS, DANIEL signed 2022-04-27 ESPENLAUB, ANDREW COLIN signed 2022-04-27 | SOLAERO TECHNOLOGIES CORP BY ROCKET LAB ALBUQUERQUE, NM | 59783/245 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
Documents recorded with the USPTO Assignment Recordation Branch that list this patent. A security interest is a lender’s claim on the patent as collateral; a release ends it.
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