Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Photoelectric – Panel or array
Patent
1980-06-20
1981-09-29
Weisstuch, Aaron
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Photoelectric
Panel or array
136255, 136258, 357 2, 357 15, 357 30, H01L 3104
Patent
active
042924618
ABSTRACT:
A high efficiency tandem solar cell may be fabricated wherein a layer of transparent conducting material is placed over a crystalline substrate and under an amorphous region. Light incident on the upper surface has higher energy photons absorbed in the higher bandgap amorphous material and lower energy photons pass through the transparent conductor to a point of absorption in the lower energy gap crystalline material.
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International Business Machines - Corporation
Riddles Alvin J.
Weisstuch Aaron
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