Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Thermoelectric – Radiation pyrometer
Patent
1973-10-30
1976-02-03
Curtis, Allen B.
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Thermoelectric
Radiation pyrometer
148187, 148188, H01l 1502
Patent
active
039363198
ABSTRACT:
A solar cell with improved efficiency is provided with a convoluted P-N junction whereby a higher proportion of carriers produced by exposure of the solar cell to a source of radiation will be collected by the P-N junction rather than being lost by recombination. The solar cell has an increased resistance to radiation damage. The solar cell is made from a body of semiconductor material in which two regions of opposite type conductivity are formed. The material of one region is substantially the same as the body and the material of the other region is recrystallized material of the first region having solid solubility of a metal therein to impart a selective type conductivity and resistivity thereto.
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Anthony Thomas R.
Cline Harvey E.
Winegar Donald M.
Cohen Joseph T.
Curtis Allen B.
General Electric Company
Squillaro Jerome C.
Winegar Donald M.
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