Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Photoelectric – Panel or array
Patent
1987-05-14
1989-09-05
Terapane, John F.
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Photoelectric
Panel or array
H01L 3106
Patent
active
H00006670
ABSTRACT:
A multijunction solar cell is disclosed which uses a patterned intercell ohmic connection as the tunnel junction to connect a top solar cell in electrical and optical series with a bottom solar cell. By confining this patterned tunnel junction to shadowed areas directly beneath the top surface metallization grid, the tunnel junction is set free from the requirement that it be transparent and have band gaps greater than or equal to those of the top solar cell.
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"Patterned GE Tunnel Junctions As Cell Interconnects for Multijunction Monolithic Cascade Solar Cells" by P. K. Chiang, M. L. Timmons, G. G. Fountain and J. A. Hutchby, Conference Record, 18th Photovoltaic Specialists Conf. (1985), pp. 562-567, published Apr. 1986.
Bedair Salah M.
Hauser John R.
Hutchby James A.
Markunas Robert J.
Timmons Michael L.
Auton William G.
Jorgensen Eric
Singer Donald J.
Terapane John F.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretaryof t
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