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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 1979
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1978
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gregory H Olsen, Dayton, NJ (US);
Michael Ettenberg, Freehold, NJ (US);
Assignee:
RCA Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
136 / ; 357 30 ; 357 52 ; 136 / ;
Abstract
A new low cost high efficiency gallium arsenide homojunction solar cell incorporating a passivating surface layer of indium gallium phosphide. The thickness of the indium gallium phosphide layer is selected so that it is transmissive to photons having wavelengths shorter than its bandgap energy.