Owner PrimeStar Solar, Inc.

Inventors Gossman, Robert Dwayne; Drayton, Jennifer A.

Agent Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Pub. Number AU-A-2010257207

Priority 12/638,749 15.12.09 US

Filing date 15 December 2010

Wipo publication date 30 June 2011

C23C 14/34 (2006.01) Coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering or by ion implantation - Sputtering

C23C 14/18 (2006.01) Coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering or by ion implantation - on other inorganic substrates

C23C 28/02 (2006.01) Coating for obtaining at least two superposed coatings either by methods not provided for in a single one of main groups , or by combinations of methods provided for in subclasses and or - only coatings of metallic material

H01L 31/0272 (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

H01L 31/04 (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 - adapted as conversion devices

H01L 31/18 (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 - Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of these devices or of parts thereof