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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:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1998
Akimasa Umemoto, Sakurai, JP;
Susumu Kidoguchi, Kitakatsuragi-gun, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The integrated thin film solar battery of this invention includes a plurality of unit cells serially connected with one another on a same translucent insulating substrate, each of the unit cells including a transparent conductive film electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a back electrode formed in this order so that the transparent conductive film electrode of one unit cell is serially connected to the back electrode of an adjacent unit cell, wherein the transparent conductive film electrode of one unit cell and the back electrode of an adjacent unit cell are connected via a contact line, and the contact line is formed by patterning by scribing the photoelectric conversion layer using a laser beam, and a wavelength of the laser beam exceeding 0.60 &mgr;m is used for the scribing so that side edges of the contact line of the photoelectric conversion layer is heated to be crystallized and thus made conductive and that the crystallized side edges can provide a conduction effect added to a contact effect of a groove of the contact line.
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