Commissariat a L'energie Atomique

Compagnie Internationale Pour L'informatique

Igor Melnick

Jean-Pierre Lazzari

Line Vieux-Rochaz

Andre Chenevas-Paule

A basic photovoltaic stack is constituted by a semiconducting layer interposed between a layer forming an ohmic contact and a layer forming a Schottky contact. A second photovoltaic stack having the same structure as the basic stack is formed on this latter and includes one of the layers forming an ohmic or Schottky contact. The layer or layers forming an ohmic contact are connected together so as to constitute a first output terminal of the photovoltaic generator. The layer or layers forming a Schottky contact are connected together so as to constitute a second output terminal of the generator.

Photovoltaic generator

Evaporation source for vacuum deposition, comprising a refractory crucible provided in its outer surface with conducting members traversed by an electric current and able to raise the crucible temperature by Joule effect, in which the said outer surface is coated, prior to fitting the conducting members, with a thin intermediate coating layer which does not react with the crucible but which is in intimate contact with the latter. A particular application is the vacuum heating to elevated temperature of crucibles.

Evaporation source for vacuum deposition

A magnetic circuit which exhibits low reluctance on the path of a magnetic flux and comprises at least one anisotropic thin film formed of an iron-nickel-chromium alloy through which said magnetic flux passes in the hard direction of magnetization of the film.

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Grenoble, France

Igor Melnick