Patents

US 12211948 B1: Multijunction solar cells

Granted
2025-01-28
Filed
2021-12-22 application 17559038
Type
Utility · 17 claims
Elsewhere
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Abstract

A method of fabricating multijunction solar cell including an upper solar subcell and having an emitter of p conductivity type with a first band gap, and a base of n conductivity type with a second band gap greater than the first band gap; a lower solar subcell disposed below the upper solar subcell having an emitter of p conductivity type with a third band gap, and a base of n conductivity type with a fourth band gap greater than the third band gap; and an intermediate grading interlayer disposed between the upper and lower solar subcells and having a graded lattice constant that matches the upper first subcell on a first side and the second solar subcell on the second side opposite the first side, and having a fifth band gap that is greater than the second band gap of the upper solar subcell.

Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg250128.xml).

Assignees

AssigneeTypePlaceAlso on furp.orgSource
SolAero Technologies Corp 189 patentsUS company or organizationAlbuquerque, NMSOLAERO 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

InventorPlacePatentsPerson pageSource
Daniel DerkacsAlbuquerque, NM84PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10

CPC categories

SubclassCategoryFirst groupSource
H10FInorganic semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiationH10F10/161PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10
Y02EReduction of greenhouse gas [ghg] emissions, related to energy generation, transmission or distributionY02E10/544PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10

Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).

Assignments and security interests

RecordedWhatFromToReel/frameSource
2022-01-26Assignment
Assignment of assignor's interest
DERKACS, DANIEL signed 2019-01-23SOLAERO TECHNOLOGIES CORP. ALBUQUERQUE, NM58774/958ECORSEXC, 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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