Design for Flexible Thin Film Solar Cell

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 Date
Patent No.
6,410,362
Category
Device or Machine

A clear thermal emissive coating, such as clear polyimide, is deposited directly upon a thin film solar cell forming a flexible thin film solar cell. The thin film solar cell can be deposited on another thermal emissive coating used as a substrate during thin film solar cell semiconductor processing so that resulting flexible thin film solar cell can be illuminated on the top side and eject heat from both sides suitable for forming a solar cell array over a curved surface such as a power sphere nanosatellite with thermal regulation.

Keywords: solar, thin film
International Class: H01L31/0216, H01L31/0392, H01L31/048, H01L31/048