First Solar, Inc.

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc.

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Pratima V Addepalli

Rama Venkatasubramanian

Randall G Alley

Xiao Guang Yang

Oleh Petro Karpenko

Edward P Siivola

San Yu

Brooks O'Quinn

Thomas Colpitts

Kip D Coonley

Imran Khan

James Matthew Marcicki

Devang Bhalchandra Dave

John S Deeken

John Posthill

Veluchamy Palaniappagounder

Anil J Reddy

Gang Xiong

Jianbo Lu

Benyamin Buller

Xu Wang

David K Hwang

Rick C Powell

Bing A Shen

Markus Gloeckler

Zhibo Zhao

Ming Lun Yu

David Alan Koester

Jayesh Bharathan

Rui Shao

Akhlesh Gupta

Andrei Los

Sreenivas Jayaraman

Connor McCann

Bogdan Bude

Cynthia Watkins

Michael Puchan

Mary Napier

A vehicle includes an electric machine, a battery, an electrical circuit, an overcharge limit device, and a controller. The electric machine is configured to propel the vehicle. The battery has a plurality of cells and is configured to provide electrical power to the electric machine. The electrical circuit is configured to deliver the electrical power from the battery to the electric machine. The overcharge limit device is configured to individually disconnect each of the plurality cells from the circuit in response to an internal pressure of a respective cell exceeding a pressure threshold. The controller is programmed to, in response to detecting a first set of parameters that are indicative of a first of the cells being disconnected from the electrical circuit via the overcharge limit device, discontinue control the first of the cells.

Battery control system for a hybrid or electric vehicle

A method controlling a battery management system is provided. The method may include commanding by a controller a heat exchanger of a vehicle to pre-cool a traction battery of the vehicle key-off responsive to the vehicle being within a predetermined range of a predicted parking location, a current temperature of the traction battery being less than a temperature threshold, and a predicted parked temperature for the traction battery being greater than the temperature threshold.

Method of operating thermal management system in electric vehicles

A method includes controlling charging a battery pack of an electrified vehicle, via a control system of the electrified vehicle, based on climate conditions, traffic conditions, and learned driving habits of a driver of the electrified vehicle. The control system is configured to create a smart charging schedule for either adding or not adding an additional charge to the battery pack in anticipation of an expected upcoming drive cycle.

Smart charging schedules for battery systems and associated methods for electrified vehicles

A photovoltaic device includes a substrate, a transparent conductive oxide, an n-type window layer, a p-type absorber layer and an electron reflector layer. The electron reflector layer may include zinc telluride doped with copper telluride, zinc telluride alloyed with copper telluride, or a bilayer of multiple layers containing zinc, copper, cadmium and tellurium in various compositions. A process for manufacturing a photovoltaic device includes forming a layer over a substrate by at least one of sputtering, evaporation deposition, CVD, chemical bath deposition process, and vapor transport deposition process. The process includes forming an electron reflector layer over a p-type absorber layer.

Photovoltaic device including a back contact and method of manufacturing

A photovoltaic device with a low-resistance stable electrical back contact is disclosed. The photovoltaic device can have a CuTeor CuTeNlayer.

Electrical contact

A method to improve operation of a CdTe-based photovoltaic device is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of depositing a semiconductor absorber layer adjacent to a substrate, depositing a semiconductor buffer layer adjacent to the semiconductor layer, and annealing at least one of the semiconductor absorber layer and the semiconductor buffer layer with one of a laser and a flash lamp.

Method of manufacturing a photovoltaic device

A method to preparing Cadmium telluride surface before forming metal back contact is disclosed. The method can include removing carbon from Cadmium telluride surface.

Photovoltaic back contact

A structure, system and method for controlling a temperature of a heat generating device in a solid medium, wherein heat is extracted from the medium into at least one heat extraction device, the heat extraction device dissipates heat into an environment apart from the medium by a heat sink thermally coupled to the heat extraction device; and heat from the medium is dissipated into the heat sink by a first thermal interface material thermally coupling the heat sink to the medium.

Thin film thermoelectric devices for hot-spot thermal management in microprocessors and other electronics

A thermoelectric device having at least one unipolar couple element () including two legs () of a same electrical conductivity type. A first-temperature stage () is connected to one of the two legs. A second-temperature stage () is connected across the legs of the at least one unipolar couple element. A third-temperature stage () is connected to the other of the two legs. Methods for cooling an object and for thermoelectric power conversion utilize the at least one unipolar couple element to respectively cool an object and produce electrical power.

Trans-thermoelectric device

A method of forming a thermoelectric device may include forming a plurality of islands of thermoelectric material on a deposition substrate. The plurality of islands of thermoelectric material may be bonded to a header substrate so that the plurality of islands are between the deposition substrate and the header substrate. More particularly, the islands of thermoelectric material may be epitaxial islands of thermoelectric material having crystal structures aligned with a crystal structure of the deposition substrate. Related structures are also discussed.

Methods of forming thermoelectric devices using islands of thermoelectric material and related structures

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Pratima V Addepalli