Owner General Electric Company

Inventors Feldman-Peabody, Scott; Lita, Bogdan; Cozens, Michael Burnash; Sadeghi, Mehran; Zhao, Yu; Whitney, Renee Mary

Agent Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Pub. Number AU-A-2010249144

Priority 12/639,099 16.12.09 US

Filing date 2 December 2010

Wipo publication date 30 June 2011

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

H01L 21/00 (2006.01) Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or solid state devices or of parts thereof

H01L 31/06 (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 - characterised by at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier