IP Library Granted Patent US 8,941,001
Granted Patent B1
US 8,941,001 · App. 12/948,732 · Granted Jan 27, 2015

Transparent layer with anti-reflective texture

Inventors: Louis Basel (The Hague, NL); Robert Stancel (Berlin, DE); Christian Fessenmaier (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee: aeris CAPITAL Sustainable IP Ltd.
H01L31/02168
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Patent No.
US 8,941,001
App. No.
12/948,732
Granted
Jan 27, 2015
Kind
B1
Abstract

Methods and devices are provided for improved anti-reflective texture. In some embodiments, the absorber layer for use with this anti-reflective layer is a group IB-IIIA-VIA absorber layer.

Claims (11)

1. An assembly comprising:

a textured transparent panel and a photovoltaic cell or solar collector element configured to collect light, said panel being textured on at least one of its faces by a plurality of raised rhomboid geometrical features with respect to a general plane of said face, wherein each of the raised rhomboid geometrical features in the plurality has six faces, the textured face increasing light transmission of the panel and being placed on a side on which the light is received, a surface of said features each having at least a raised ridge line, wherein the rhomboid geometrical features form a rhomboid pattern that includes ridges, but not apex features.

2. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the raised ridge line is highest of any raised features on the panel.

3. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the panel has touching features.

4. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the panel has completely touching features.

5. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a bulk of the panel essentially consists of materials whose linear absorption is less than 0.01 mm −1 within the spectrum ranging from 380 to 1200 nm.

6. The assembly as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the bulk of the panel essentially consists of a glass having a linear absorption of less than 0.008 mm −1 within the spectrum ranging from 380 to 1200 nm.

7. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a distance between the panel and the element is less than 15 cm.

8. The assembly as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the distance between the panel and the element is less than 3 cm.

9. The assembly as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the distance between the panel and the element ranges from 0 to 10 mm.

10. The assembly as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the distance between the panel and the element ranges from 0 to 5 mm.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 21, 2014
From: NANOSOLAR, INC.
To: AERIS CAPITAL SUSTAINABLE IP LTD.
Reel/Frame 032502/0201 →
SECURITY AGREE,EMT Recorded Nov 15, 2012
From: NANOSOLAR, INC.
To: AERIS CAPITAL SUSTAINABLE IMPACT PRIVATE INVESTMENT FUND CAYMAN L.P.
Reel/Frame 029556/0418 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 16, 2012
From: BASEL, LOUIS; STANCEL, ROBERT; FESENMAIER, CHRISTIAN
To: NANOSOLAR, INC.
Reel/Frame 028798/0355 →
Continuity (1)
Provisional Application 61262143 · Nov 17, 2009