Semiconductor device manufacturing: process – Making device or circuit responsive to nonelectrical signal – Responsive to electromagnetic radiation
Reexamination Certificate
2011-06-21
2011-06-21
Smith, Matthew (Department: 2823)
Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Making device or circuit responsive to nonelectrical signal
Responsive to electromagnetic radiation
C438S785000, C438S073000, C438S092000, C438S064000, C438S462000, C257SE21599, C257SE21359, C257SE21088
Reexamination Certificate
active
07964431
ABSTRACT:
A photovoltaic cell is formed by bonding a donor body to a receiver element and cleaving a thin lamina from the donor body. Electrical contact is made to the bonded surface of the lamina through vias formed in the lamina. In some embodiments the emitter exists only at the bonded surface or only at the cleaved surface face; the emitter does not wrap through the vias between the surfaces. Wiring contacting each of the two surfaces is formed only at the cleaved face, and one set of wiring contacts the bonded surface through conductive material formed in the vias, insulated from the via sidewalls.
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Hilali Mohamed M
Petti Christopher J
Baptiste Wilner Jean
Smith Matthew
The Mueller Law Office, P.C.
Twin Creeks Technologies, Inc.
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