Patents
US 11916159 B2: Multijunction solar cells
- Granted
- 2024-02-27
- Filed
- 2022-11-14 application 17986663
- Type
- Utility · 19 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
A multijunction solar cell including an upper first solar subcell having a first band gap and positioned for receiving an incoming light beam; and a second solar subcell disposed below and adjacent to and lattice matched with said upper first solar subcell, and having a second band gap smaller than said first band gap; wherein at least one of the solar subcells has a graded band gap throughout the thickness of at least a portion of its emitter layer and base layer.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg240227.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Hart | Albuquerque, NM | 19 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Daniel Derkacs | Albuquerque, NM | 84 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Zachary Bittner | Albuquerque, NM | 18 | 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 | H10F10/161 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| C12P | Fermentation or enzyme-using processes to synthesise a desired chemical compound or composition or to separate optical isomers from a racemic mixture | C12P19/56 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-15 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | ESPENLAUB, ANDREW signed 2021-01-07 HART, JOHN signed 2021-01-08 BITTNER, ZACHARY signed 2021-01-11 DERKACS, DANIEL signed 2021-01-11 | SOLAERO TECHNOLOGIES CORP. ALBUQUERQUE, NM | 61780/591 | 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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