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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Solaero Technologies Corp., Albuquerque, NM (US);
Inventors:
Daniel Derkacs, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Jeff Steinfeldt, Rio Rancho, NM (US);
Assignee:
SolAero Technologies Corp., Albuquerque, NM (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/0725 (2012.01); H01L 31/0304 (2006.01); H01L 31/05 (2014.01); H01L 31/18 (2006.01); H01L 31/0687 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/0725 (2013.01); H01L 31/03046 (2013.01); H01L 31/0504 (2013.01); H01L 31/0687 (2013.01); H01L 31/1844 (2013.01); Y02E 10/544 (2013.01); Y02P 70/521 (2015.11);
Abstract
A multijunction solar cell assembly and its method of manufacture including first and second discrete and different semiconductor body subassemblies which are electrically interconnected to form a five junction solar cell, each semiconductor body subassembly including first, second, third and fourth lattice matched subcells; wherein the average band gap of all four cells in each subassembly is greater than 1.44 eV.