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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
May. 04, 2015
Applicant:
Solarcity Corporation, San Mateo, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jianming Fu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zheng Xu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Jiunn Benjamin Heng, San Jose, CA (US);
Chentao Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Tesla, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/0352 (2006.01); H01L 31/0224 (2006.01); H01L 31/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/035209 (2013.01); H01L 31/022425 (2013.01); H01L 31/1884 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a photovoltaic module. The photovoltaic module includes an optical concentrator and a tunneling-junction solar cell. The tunneling-junction solar cell includes a base layer, a quantum-tunneling-barrier (QTB) layer situated above the base layer, an emitter layer, a front-side electrode, and a back-side electrode.