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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 29, 2019
Applicant:

Solaero Technologies Corp., Albuquerque, NM (US);

Inventors:

Mark A. Stan, Albuquerque, NM (US);

Arthur Cornfeld, Sandy Springs, GA (US);

Assignee:

SolAero Technologies Corp., Albuquerque, NM (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/0735 (2012.01); H01L 31/0304 (2006.01); H01L 31/041 (2014.01); H01L 31/054 (2014.01); H01L 31/0687 (2012.01); H01L 31/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/0735 (2013.01); H01L 31/03046 (2013.01); H01L 31/041 (2014.12); H01L 31/0549 (2014.12); H01L 31/06875 (2013.01); H01L 31/1892 (2013.01);
Abstract

An inverted metamorphic multijunction solar cell comprising: an upper first solar subcell having a first band gap; a middle second solar subcell disposed adjacent to the upper first solar subcell and having a second band gap smaller than said first band gap; a graded interlayer disposed adjacent to the middle second solar subcell and having a band gap that remains constant throughout its thickness; a lower third solar subcell disposed adjacent to said graded interlayer and having a fourth band gap that is smaller than said second band gap such that said third solar subcell is lattice mismatched with respect to said second solar subcell; a back surface field (BSF) layer disposed directly adjacent to the base layer of said lower third solar subcell; at least one distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) layer disposed directly adjacent to the back surface field (BSF) layer.


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