Solar energy collecting module

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9960296-B2
Application number	US-40058709-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 9, 2009
Priority date	Nov 6, 2008
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 2018

Abstract

A solar energy collecting system includes a substrate and at least one solar chip. The substrate includes a first surface, a second surface and a plurality of lateral surfaces, wherein the first surface faces the second surface, the lateral surfaces are adjacent to the first and second surfaces, and a first micro structure is formed on the first or the second surface. The solar chip is near one of the lateral surfaces. Solar light penetrates the first and the second surface and is refracted or reflected by the first micro structure to leave the substrate via the lateral surface and be absorbed by the solar chip.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A solar energy collecting module, comprising:
a substrate comprising a first surface, a second surface and a plurality of lateral surfaces, wherein the first surface faces the second surface, the lateral surfaces are adjacent to the first and second surfaces, and a first micro-structure is formed on the second surface;
at least one solar cell disposed on one of the lateral surfaces, arranged such that solar light penetrates the first surface and is refracted or reflected by the first micro-structure on the second surface to leave the substrate via the lateral surface on which the solar cell is disposed and be absorbed by the solar cell; and
a micro/nano-scale structure comprising:
a micro/nano layer formed on the first surface of the substrate; and
a metal layer formed on the micro/nano layer,

wherein the first micro-structure comprises a plurality of strips, wherein each of the strips extends in a direction parallel to the lateral surface on which the solar cell is disposed, and a cross section of each strip is triangular,
wherein a vertex angle of the triangular of each of the strips is divided into an angle A and an angle B by a vertical line extending from an apex, the angle A is 80 degrees, and the angle B is 40-80 degrees.

2. The solar energy collecting module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the substrate is made of a transparent material.

3. The solar energy collecting module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the solar cell is made of silicon or a semiconductor material selected from the chemical elements listed on Group III and Group V of the periodic table.

4. The solar energy collecting module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a distance between the solar cell and the lateral surface is less than 1 mm.

5. The solar energy collecting module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first surface is coated by a water repellent material comprising polyvinylidene fluoride, polysulfone, reactive modifying agent with a water-free polymer, silicon rubber, Acrylonitrile-Butadien-Styrene, or Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).

6. The solar energy collecting module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the micro/nano-scale structure comprises a plurality of three-dimensional structures, and each of the three-dimensional structures is with a cross section having a width that is gradually larger from a top to a bottom portion and a height of 100-570 nm, arranged with a period of 100-600 nm.

7. The solar energy collecting module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the metal layer comprises gold, silver, aluminum, nickel, copper, chromium, tin oxide or indium tin oxide (ITO).

8. The solar energy collecting module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the metal layer is less than 150 nm.

9. The solar energy collecting module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the micro/nano structure further comprises a hard coating coated on the metal layer.

Assignees

• Lin Hui Hsiung
• Yu Chia Wei
• Pao Yu Nan
• Ind Tech Res Inst

Inventors

• Lin Hui-Hsiung
• Yu Chia-Wei
• Pao Yu-Nan

Classifications

• H01L31/02366 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• F24J2/067

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• H01L31/0547

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y02E10/52

  PV systems with concentrators · CPC title

• H10F77/488

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