Coating processes – Electrical product produced – Photoelectric
Patent
1985-05-17
1987-05-05
Morgenstern, Norman
Coating processes
Electrical product produced
Photoelectric
427 75, 427109, H01L 3118
Patent
active
046631887
ABSTRACT:
A photodetector including a light transmissive electrically conducting layer having a textured surface with a semiconductor body thereon. This layer traps incident light thereby enhancing the absorption of light by the semiconductor body. A photodetector comprising a textured light transmissive electrically conducting layer of SnO.sub.2 and a body of hydrogenated amorphous silicon has a conversion efficiency about fifty percent greater than that of comparative cells. The invention also includes a method of fabricating the photodetector of the invention.
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Burke William J.
Cohen Donald S.
Jaconethy K.
Morgenstern Norman
Morris Birgit E.
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