Patents
US 12051760 B2: Multijunction solar cells
- Granted
- 2024-07-30
- Filed
- 2023-07-13 application 18221462
- Type
- Utility · 21 claims
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Abstract
A multijunction solar cell including an upper first solar subcell having an emitter and base layers forming a photoelectric junction; a second solar subcell disposed under and adjacent to the upper first solar subcell, and having an emitter and base layers forming a photoelectric junction; and a third solar subcell disposed under and adjacent to the second solar subcell and having an emitter and base layers forming a photoelectric junction; wherein at least one of the base and emitter layers of at least a particular solar subcell from among the upper first solar subcell, the second solar subcell, and the third solar subcell has a graded band gap throughout at least a portion of thickness of its active layer adjacent to the photoelectric junction and being in a range of 20 to 300 MeV greater than a band gap in the active layer away from the photoelectric junction.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg240730.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 | H10F10/163 | 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
No recorded assignments or security interests on file for this patent.
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