Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Masato Nishikuni

Yukinori Kuwano

Shingo Okamoto

Shigeru Noguchi

Hiroaki Izu

Shoichi Nakano

Akira Terakawa

Tsuyoshi Takahama

Masayoshi Ono

Hiroyuki Kuriyama

Takahiro Haga

Yukio Nakashima

Hiroyuki Mori

Yoshinobu Takabatake

Nobuo Hanehira

Masanori Kaji

Shinya Tsuda

Makoto Tanaka

Takeo Tsutsumi

The solar battery output section has a hole provided through the substrate and through an output terminal formed on the front-side of that substrate. Metal foil is applied covering the hole on the backside of the substrate. The inside of the hole is filled with conducting material to electrically connect the output terminal and the metal foil. Finally, a protective resin film is applied over the substrate, and a wire lead is solder attached to the metal foil on the backside of the substrate.

Solar battery output section and its method of manufacture

An electrostatic motor for use as a power generating mechanism to be mounted on a micromachine includes a rotatable semiconductor substrate and a drive electrode disposed in proximity to the substrate. The semiconductor substrate is doped with a specified impurity element to form electromagnetic wave-static electric converters of p-n junction. When the motor is to be started, the converter in the vicinity of the electrode is irradiated with electromagnetic waves to set up an electric field between the opposed surfaces of the converter and the electrode to rotate the substrate by an electrostatic force due to the electric field.

Micromachine

A photovoltaic device includes a substrate (1, 10) having a conductive electrode (2, 10), and a first semiconductor layer (3.sub.1, 11.sub.1) of a first conductivity type, a substantially intrinsic second semiconductor layer (3.sub.2, 11.sub.2) and a third semiconductor layer (3.sub.3, 11.sub.3) of the opposite conductivity type successively deposited on the conductive electrode. The hydrogen content in at least the first and second semiconductor layer (3.sub.1, 11.sub.1) is 10% or less. At least the second semiconductor layer (3.sub.2, 11.sub.2), is made of an amorphous semiconductor layer.

Photovoltaic device

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Masato Nishikuni