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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2012
Miasole, Santa Clara, CA (US);
John Corson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alex Austin, Carmel Valley, CA (US);
Robert Tas, Aromas, CA (US);
Neil Mackie, Fremont, CA (US);
Mats Larsson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Korhan Demirkan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Weijie Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jochen Titus, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Swati Sevanna, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert Zubeck, Los Altos, CA (US);
Randy Dorn, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Asit Rairkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Ron Rulkens, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ajay Saproo, Los Altos, CA (US);
Dan Vitkavage, San Jose, CA (US);
BEIJING APOLLO DING RONG SOLAR TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing, CN;
Abstract
A solar cell containing a plurality of CIGS absorber sublayers has a conversion efficiency of at least 13.4 percent and a minority carrier lifetime below 2 nanoseconds. The sublayers may have a different composition from each other.