Konarka Technologies, Inc.

University of Massachusetts

US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Merck Patent Gmbh

Lian Li

Russell A Gaudiana

Edmund Montello

Kethinni G Chittibabu

Alan Montello

Jayant Kumar

Robert D Eckert

Paul Wormser

Ramaswamy Nagarajan

Michael John Lee

Lynne Ann Samuelson

Sukant K Tripathy

Kevin Oliver

Srinivasan Balasubramanian

Susan Tripathy, Legal Representative

Ravi Mosurkal

Jin-An He

Bill Beckenbaugh

Xiaogong Wang

Claire Lepont

Siddhant Iyer

G Kethinni Chittibabu

Kethinni Chittibabu

Robert Eckert

Disclosed herein is a curable composition with high optical transparency and good oxygen and moisture barrier properties, compositions for making the same, and methods of making and of using the same.

Oxygen and moisture barrier compositions and related methods

A flexible circuit module is disclosed. The flexible circuit module includes a fabric member including a plurality of fibers having non-conductive elements, and conductive elements oriented through the plane of the fabric. Each conductive element includes a first fiber element strand and a first unterminated end opposite the first fiber element strand, and a second fiber element strand having second unterminated end opposite the second fiber element strand. The fabric member further includes a first side with the first fiber element strands extending therefrom and a second side with second fiber element strands extending therefrom. A first hook-and-loop busbar is conductively connected to the first fiber element strands and a second hook-and-loop busbar is conductively connected to the second fiber element strands.

Electrical system with hook-and-loop busbars

Photovoltaic materials and methods of photovoltaic cell fabrication provide a photovoltaic cell in the form of a fiber. These fibers may be formed into a flexible fabric or textile.

Photovoltaic fibers

Modules are disclosed. The modules can include a first photovoltaic cell including an electrode, a second photovoltaic cell including an electrode, and an interconnect disposed in the electrode of the first photovoltaic cell and disposed in the electrode of the second photovoltaic cell so that the electrode of the first photovoltaic cell and the electrode of the second photovoltaic cell are connected.

Photovoltaic module architecture

A method of making a photovoltaic cell includes contacting a cross-linking agent with semiconductor particles, and incorporating the semiconductor particles into the photovoltaic cell.

Photovoltaic cell

A flexible photovoltaic cell integrated onto an active card, such as a greeting card or 'smart' card, may be fabricated separately and then integrated with additional electronics on the active card. Alternatively, the photovoltaic cell may be fabricated on the active card itself, constituting, if desired, part or all of its surface design.

Photovoltaic powered multimedia greeting cards and smart cards

A polymeric linking agent enables the manufacture of photovoltaic cells on flexible substrates, including, for example, polymeric substrates. Photovoltaic cells may be fabricated by a relatively simple continuous manufacturing process, for example, a roll-to-roll process, instead of a batch process.

Low temperature interconnection of nanoparticles

The invention, in one embodiment, is directed to various aspects of the use of one or more wires in conjunction with an adhesive strip to serve as an electrically conductive connector between the photoactive layers of a photovoltaic cell or module.

Wire interconnects for fabricating interconnected photovoltaic cells

In one aspect, the invention provides photovoltaic modules. In one embodiment, a photovoltaic module includes a plurality of photovoltaic cells, at least two of which include a photosensitized nanomatrix layer and a charge carrier media. Preferably, the cells further include a catalytic media layer. The photovoltaic cells are disposed between a first electrical connection layer and a second electrical connection layer. In one embodiment, the cells are interconnected in series and the electrical connections layers each include conductive and insulative regions.

Photovoltaic cell interconnection

A method for making a multilayer structure having macroscopic second order nonlinear optical properties is described. The resulting nonlinear optical structures made by the method are also described. The method includes the steps of contacting a substrate having ionic adsorption sites with a first charged polyion; ceasing contact of the substrate with the first charged polyion; and thereafter, contacting the substrate with a second charged polyion having a charge opposite to that of the first charged polyion, wherein at least one of the polyions includes a nonlinear optical chromophoric side chain.

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