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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1985
Bulent M Basol, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Eric S Tseng, Torrance, CA (US);
The Standard Oil Company, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A stable front contact current collector grid 36 is provided for thin-film photovoltaic devices. The current collector grid 36 is deposited on a textured patterned surface 35 of an optically transparent electrically conductive layer 34 that insures stable bonding between the current collector grid 36 and the transparent conductive layer 34. The photovoltaic device 30 includes a substrate 32; an optically transparent electrically conductive layer 34 having a textured patterned surface 35; a front contact current collector grid 36; a first semiconductor layer 38; a second semiconductor layer 40; and an electrically conductive film 42 in contact with the second semiconductor layer.