Owner First Solar, Inc.

Inventors Powell, Rick C.; Gloeckler, Markus; Buller, Benyamin; Shao, Rui

Agent Griffith Hack

Pub. Number AU-A-2010271339

PCT Pub. Number WO2011/006050

Priority 61/224,658 10.07.09 US; 61/225,013 13.07.09 US

Filing date 9 July 2010

Wipo publication date 13 January 2011

H01L 31/18 (2006.01) Semiconductor devices sensitive to infra-red radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength, or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation - Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of these devices or of parts thereof

H01L 31/06 (2006.01) Semiconductor devices sensitive to infra-red radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength, or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation - characterised by at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier