Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Amorphous silicon solar cell allowing infrared transmission

Patent ·
OSTI ID:863415

An amorphous silicon solar cell with a layer of high index of refraction material or a series of layers having high and low indices of refraction material deposited upon a transparent substrate to reflect light of energies greater than the bandgap energy of the amorphous silicon back into the solar cell and transmit solar radiation having an energy less than the bandgap energy of the amorphous silicon.

Research Organization:
RCA Labs., Princeton, NJ (USA)
Assignee:
RCA Corporation (New York, NY)
Patent Number(s):
US 4166919
OSTI ID:
863415
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English