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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Gtat Corporation, Nashua, NH (US);
Steve Babayan, Los Altos, CA (US);
Robert Brainard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arvind Chari, Saratoga, CA (US);
Alejandro de la Fuente Vornbrock, San Carlos, CA (US);
Venkatesan Murali, San Jose, CA (US);
Gopal Prabhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Venkateswaran Subbaraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Dong Xu, Fremont, CA (US);
GTAT Corporation, Nashua, NH (US);
Abstract
A free-standing metallic article, and method of making, is disclosed in which the metallic article is electroformed on an electrically conductive mandrel. The mandrel has an outer surface with a preformed pattern, wherein at least a portion of the metallic article is formed in the preformed pattern. The metallic article is separated from the electrically conductive mandrel, which forms a free-standing metallic article that may be coupled with the surface of a semiconductor material for a photovoltaic cell.