Q1 Nanosystems Corporation

Calyxo Gmbh

John Bohland

Robert M Smith

Larry Bawden

Norman W Johnston

Michael Bauer

Frank Becker

Kenneth R Kormanyos

Robert Fischer

Hubert Joachim Frenck

Various stamping methods may reduce defects and increase throughput for manufacturing metamaterial devices. Metamaterial devices with an array of photovoltaic bristles, and/or vias, may enable each photovoltaic bristle to have a high probability of photon absorption. The high probability of photon absorption may lead to increased efficiency and more power generation from an array of photovoltaic bristles. Reduced defects in the metamaterial device may decrease manufacturing cost, increase reliability of the metamaterial device, and increase the probability of photon absorption for a metamaterial device. The increase in manufacturing throughput and reduced defects may reduce manufacturing costs to enable the embodiment metamaterial devices to reach grid parity.

Three-dimensional photovoltaic devices including cavity-containing cores and methods of manufacture

Three-dimensional photovoltaic devices including non-conductive cores and methods of manufacture

The invention relates to a process for producing a glass sheetcoated with a semiconductor material, which comprises the steps (a) production of a glass strip in a float bathcontaining liquid tin; (b) discharge of the glass strip from the float bathand optionally coating of the glass strip with a transparent, electrically conductive intermediate layer; (c) transfer of the uncoated or coated glass strip into a deposition chamberfor the physical deposition of the semiconductor material from the gas phase; and (d) coating of the coated or uncoated glass strip from step (c) with the semiconductor material by physical deposition of the semiconductor material from the gas phase at a gas pressure of at least 0.1 bar. The invention additionally relates to an apparatus for producing a glass strip coated with a semiconductor material, a process for producing a solar cell or a solar module and also a solar cell or a solar module which can be obtained by this process.

Process and apparatus for producing a glass sheet coated with a semiconductor material

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Folsom, CA, United States of America

John Bohland