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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:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kaneka Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 3/10232 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 3/10232 ;
Abstract
A silicon-based thin film photoelectric conversion device includes a substrate , a back electrode having a light reflecting metal film , at least one silicon-based photoelectric conversion unit and a front transparent electrode , wherein at least one of the light reflecting metal film and the front transparent electrode has that surface thereof closer to the silicon-based photoelectric conversion unit provided with convexities and concavities having a level difference therebetween in a range of 0.01 to 2 &mgr;m and a pitch greater than the level difference and no more than 25 times the level difference.