Owner General Electric Company

Inventors Kumar, Sundeep; Saha, Atanu; Aiyer, Hemantkumar Narsinham; Nayak, Mohandas; Ramasesha, Sheela Kollali

Agent Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Pub. Number AU-A-2009200640

Filing date 18 February 2009

Wipo publication date 2 September 2010

H01L 21/40 (2006.01) Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or solid state devices or of parts thereof

C22F 1/08 (2006.01) Changing the physical structure of non-ferrous metals or alloys by heat treatment or by hot or cold working - of copper or alloys based thereon

C23C 8/08 (2006.01) Solid state diffusion into metallic material surfaces - only one element being applied

H01L 31/042 (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 - including a panel or array of photoelectric cells, e.g. solar cells