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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2008
Applicant:
Ashok Sinha, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ashok Sinha, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sunpreme, Ltd., Grand Cayman, KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/00 (2006.01); H01L 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods for fabricating solar cells without the need to perform gasification of metallurgical-grade silicon are disclosed. Consequently, the costs and health and environmental hazards involved in fabricating the solar or silicon grade silicon are being avoided. A solar cell structure comprises a metallurgical grade doped silicon substrate and a thin-film structure formed over the substrate to form a p-i-n junction with the substrate. The substrate may be doped p-type, and the thin film structure may be an intrinsic amorphous layer formed over the substrate and an n-type amorphous layer formed over the intrinsic layer.