Spheral Solar Power Inc.

Ats Automation Tooling Systems Inc.

Gary Don Stevens

Milfred Dale Hammerbacher

Frederic Rivollier

Aline Wullur

Paul Ray Sharrock

Glen Crossley

My Thi Hoai Hoang

Brett Michael Barnes

A solar panel overlay for mounting on an underlying roof deck comprises a substrate and at least one row of photovoltaic cells on the substrate. The photovoltaic cells define a solar collecting surface having an appearance mimicking that of the underlying roof deck. A solar panel overlay assembly comprising a plurality of interconnect solar panel overlays is also provided.

Solar panel overlay and solar panel overlay assembly

A method of fabricating a photovoltaic solar cell is provided. A plurality of generally spherical semiconductor elements are provided. Each of the semiconductor elements has a core and an outer surface surface forming a p-n junction. An anti-reflection coating is deposited on the outer surface of each of the semiconductor elements and each of the semiconductor elements is bonded into a perforated aluminum foil array thereby providing ohmic contact to a first side of the p-n junction. The anti-reflection coating is removed from a portion of each of the semiconductor elements and then the core is exposed, thereby allowing ohmic contact to be made to a second side of the p-n junction.

Method of fabricating an optical concentrator for a photovoltaic solar cell

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Kitchener, Canada

Gary Don Stevens