Solar cell apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9716199-B2
Application number	US-201314382649-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 5, 2013
Priority date	Mar 5, 2012
Publication date	Jul 25, 2017
Grant date	Jul 25, 2017

Abstract

A solar cell apparatus includes a substrate having a transmission area and a non-transmission area adjacent to the transmission area, a solar cell disposed at the non-transmission area on the substrate, and a lattice pattern disposed at the transmission area on the substrate.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A solar cell apparatus comprising:
a substrate having a transmission area and a non-transmission area adjacent to the transmission area;
a solar cell disposed at the non-transmission area on the substrate; and
a reflection transmission part disposed at the transmission area on the substrate, and including a plurality of bar-shaped lattice patterns extended in a first direction and a plurality of transmission grooves for separating the lattice patterns from each other;
a transparent, resilient buffer sheet layer formed to correspond to a shape of the solar cell, the lattice patterns and the transmission grooves to cover the solar cell and the reflection transmission part,
wherein the buffer sheet layer comprises ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA),
wherein the reflection transmission part and the solar cell are alternatively disposed to not overlap each other,
wherein the solar cell and the lattice patterns of the reflection transmission part are bonded to the substrate by a bonding part,
wherein the solar cell and the lattice patterns are disposed on a same surface of the substrate,
wherein a depth of each of the transmission grooves is equal to a height of each of the lattice pattern,
wherein the height of each of the lattice patterns is lower than a height of the solar cell,
wherein a pitch of the lattice patterns is in a range of 75 nm to 300 nm, and
wherein the transmission area has a shape extended in one direction, and the lattice patterns extend in a direction equal to the extension direction of the transmission area.

2. The solar cell apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the height of the lattice pattern is in a range of 50 nm to 200 nm.

3. The solar cell apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the lattice pattern comprises a metal, a metal compound, or a polymer.

4. The solar cell apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the lattice pattern comprises aluminum.

Assignees

• Lg Innotek Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Dong Keun

Classifications

• H02S40/22

  Light-reflecting or light-concentrating means (directly associated with the PV cell or integrated with the PV cell H10F77/42) · CPC title

• H01L31/0547

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y02E10/52

  PV systems with concentrators · CPC title

• H01L31/0549 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H10F77/488 Primary

  Reflecting light-concentrating means, e.g. parabolic mirrors or concentrators using total internal reflection · CPC title