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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2014
Applicant:
First Solar, Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Inventors:
Daniel Damjanovic, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Rick C. Powell, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Jigish Trivedi, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Zhibo Zhao, Novi, MI (US);
Assignee:
FIRST SOLAR, INC., Perryburg, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/00 (2006.01); H01L 31/0296 (2006.01); H01L 31/18 (2006.01); H01L 21/02 (2006.01); H01L 31/0392 (2006.01); H01L 31/073 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/0296 (2013.01); H01L 21/02568 (2013.01); H01L 21/02631 (2013.01); H01L 31/02966 (2013.01); H01L 31/03925 (2013.01); H01L 31/073 (2013.01); H01L 31/1828 (2013.01); H01L 31/1832 (2013.01); Y02E 10/543 (2013.01); Y02P 70/521 (2015.11);
Abstract
A completed photovoltaic device and method forming it are described in which fluxing of a window layer into an absorber layer is mitigated by the presence of a sacrificial fluxing layer.