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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2014
Applicant:
First Solar, Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Inventors:
Daniel Damjanovic, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Jing Guo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sreenivas Jayaraman, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Oleh P. Karpenko, Richmond, CA (US);
Feng Liao, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Chong Lim, Holland, OH (US);
Rick C. Powell, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Jigish Trivedi, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Zhibo Zhao, Novi, MI (US);
Assignee:
FIRST SOLAR, INC., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/00 (2006.01); H01L 31/00 (2006.01); H01L 31/065 (2012.01); H01L 31/18 (2006.01); H01L 31/0216 (2014.01); H01L 31/073 (2012.01); H01L 31/0392 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/065 (2013.01); H01L 31/02167 (2013.01); H01L 31/073 (2013.01); H01L 31/1828 (2013.01); H01L 31/1864 (2013.01); H01L 31/1872 (2013.01); H01L 31/03925 (2013.01); Y02E 10/543 (2013.01);
Abstract
A photovoltaic device including a protective layer between a window layer and an absorber layer, the protective layer inhibiting dissolving/intermixing of the window layer into the absorber layer during a device activation step, and methods of forming such photovoltaic devices.