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Article: California Inventors Develop Solar Cell Protection System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 6, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Frank Ho of Yorba Linda, Calif., Milton Y. Yeh of Santa Monica, Calif., Chaw-Long Chu of Chino Hills, Calif., and Peter A. IIes of Arcadia, Calif., have developed a system and a method for protecting a solar cell.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solar cell includes first solar cell portion. The first solar cell portion includes at least one junction and at least one solar cell contact on a backside of the first solar cell portion. At least one bypass diode portion is epitaxially grown on the first solar cell portion. The bypass diode has at least one contact. An interconnect couples the solar cell contact to the diode contact."
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