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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2010
Applicants:
Young-june Yu, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Munib Wober, Topsfield, MA (US);
Peter Duane, Waltham, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
ZENA TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 1/20 (2006.01); H01L 31/0352 (2006.01); H01L 31/056 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/035281 (2013.01); H01L 31/03529 (2013.01); H01L 31/056 (2014.12); Y02E 10/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
A photovoltaic device operable to convert light to electricity, comprising a substrate, a plurality of structures essentially perpendicular to the substrate, one or more recesses between the structures, each recess having a planar mirror on a bottom wall thereof and each recess filled with a transparent material. The structures have p-n or p-i-n junctions for converting light into electricity. The planar mirrors function as an electrode and can reflect light incident thereon back to the structures to be converted into electricity.