Multiple gap photovoltaic device

Details Multiple gap photovoltaic device Multiple gap photovoltaic device

1980-02-15

1981-03-03

Weisstuch, Aaron

Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric

Photoelectric

Panel or array

136258, 136255, 357 2, 357 30, 427 74, 29572, H01L 3104

Patent

active

042538823

ABSTRACT:
A multiple gap photovoltaic device having a transparent electrical contact adjacent a first cell which in turn is adjacent a second cell on an opaque electrical contact, includes utilizing an amorphous semiconductor as the first cell and a crystalline semiconductor as the second cell.

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