A solar glass assembly configured to generate energy and including a framing assembly having a plurality of framing elements enclosing a cavity, an upper frame surface, and a lower frame surface opposing the upper frame surface, an upper transparent glass layer coupled to the upper frame surface, defining a plurality of enclosed lens apertures with a plurality of magnifying lenses disposed therein and a lower glass layer coupled to the framing assembly and opposing the upper transparent glass layer, and a plurality of honeycomb lattice structures each housed within the cavity, of an electrically and thermally conductive material, interposed between the upper transparent glass layer and the lower glass layer, electrically coupled to a diode, and housing a semiconductor material within a cavity therein, directly coupled thereto, and disposed underneath one of the plurality of magnifying lenses to focus incoming solar light to the semiconductor material.

The application is directed to a method for the manufacture of a photovoltaic element that comprises placing a first encapsulation layer on the first support plate to protect the photovoltaic cells and forming an active layer of the photovoltaic cells connected to electrical conductors; placing a second encapsulation layer on top of the active layer to protect the photovoltaic cells; placing a second support plate on top of the second encapsulation layer to form a photovoltaic structure such that the first and second encapsulation layers form a continuous encapsulation between the first and second support plates to protect the active layer; and removing at least one support plate comprising removable material from the encapsulation such that an outer surface of the flexible photovoltaic element used in a manufacture of a non-planar photovoltaic module is formed from an outer surface of the encapsulation exposed by the partially removed support plate.

A thin film photovoltaic module includes a submodule with a first glass layer, a transparent conducting oxide layer, a thin film semiconductor layer, and a conductive back contact layer. The thin film module may further include a lamination layer and an electrically insulative backing layer. In one embodiment, the module may include a clip-less mounting feature comprising at least a first and second hole formed in the electrically insulative backing layer.

An ultra-thin transmissive cadmium (Cd) alloy solar cell is provided. The ultra-thin transmissive cadmium (Cd) alloy solar cell includes a substrate section, a conductive section, a window section, and an absorber section. The absorber section includes a transmissive cadmium (Cd) alloy and a seven hundred (700) or less nanometer (nm) section thickness. The ultra-thin transmissive cadmium (Cd) alloy solar cell includes a percent (10%) transmissivity for portions of a first irradiance wavelength range between three hundred fifty (350) nanometers (nm) to approximately eight hundred twenty-five (825) nanometers (nm). The ultra-thin transmissive cadmium (Cd) alloy solar cell includes a sixty-five percent (65%) transmissivity for portions of a second irradiance wavelength range between to approximately eight hundred twenty-five (825) nanometers (nm) to one thousand two hundred (1200) nanometers (nm).

Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide a window, an energy and light producing device including at least one transparent photovoltaic device and at least one non-transparent Organic Light Emitting Device (OLED) in an optical path of the window. A controller may control the operation of the non-transparent OLED of the energy and light producing device. An energy storage device may be electrically coupled to the controller and the energy and light producing device to store energy generated by the transparent photovoltaic device and to power the non-transparent OLED. In some implementations, a LED or OLED may be mounted in the frame of the window and may be powered by the energy storage device.

Provided are a solar cell, a method for preparing a solar cell, a tandem solar cell, and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes a substrate, a doped conductive layer, and a dielectric layer. The substrate has a first surface, where the first surface includes electrode regions and non-electrode regions that are alternatingly arranged along a first direction. The doped conductive layer is formed over the first surface of the substrate. The doped conductive layer includes first conductive portions and at least one second conductive portion. Each respective first conductive portion of the first conductive portions is formed over a respective electrode region of the electrode regions, and each respective second conductive portion of the at least one second conductive portion is formed over a part of a non-electrode region of the non-electrode regions. The dielectric layer is between the first surface and the doped conductive layer.

A functional device includes in succession: a first protective film on the front face of the device, with Young's modulus (YM) E1 and thermal dilatation coefficient (TDC) CTE1, a first exterior encapsulation film, with YM E2 and TDC CTE2, an interior encapsulation film, with YM E3 and TDC CTE3, a second exterior encapsulation film, with YM E4 and TDC CTE4, a second plate on the rear face of the device, with YM E5 and TDC CTE5, E1 and E5 being similar or identical, E2 and E4 being similar or identical, E1>E2 and E4<E5, CTE1 and CTE5 being similar or identical, CTE2 and CTE4 being similar or identical, CTE1<CTE2 and CTE4>CTE5, and one film of the first exterior encapsulation film, the interior encapsulation film and the second exterior encapsulation film encapsulating the active elements; and method for producing a functional traversable surface.

Method of manufacturing a solar cell, comprising: providing a solar cell (100) having an active surface (105a) intended, in use, to be exposed to sunlight; forming, in correspondence of said active surface, a protection against low-energy protons and other radiations harmful to the solar cell. Forming a protection comprises forming a layer of resin (110; 210) and forming by deposition of material on the resin layer a layer of protective material (115; 215b) on top of the resin layer.

A hybrid photovoltaic (PV) module includes a bifacial PV module that has an upper sheet of glass, a lower sheet of glass arranged spaced apart and substantially parallel to the upper sheet of glass, and a plurality of PV cells sandwiched between the upper and lower sheets of glass. The upper sheet of glass has an outside surface on an opposite side from the plurality of PV cells. The hybrid PV module also includes a plurality of copper wires bonded to the outside surface of the upper sheet of glass so as to extend across a width thereof: a plurality of multijunction (MJ) PV cell assemblies positioned and bonded to the outside surface of the upper glass sheet, each MJ cell assembly of the plurality of MJ cell assemblies including an MJ cell, a secondary optical assembly and first and second conductive connectors, each being electrically and thermally connected to the MJ cell and to at least a respective one of the plurality of copper wires; and an upper lens array of a full size of the bifacial PV module and being attached in position there above.

A method for manufacturing laminar layered photovoltaic panel and a laminar layered photovoltaic panel manufactured with the method. The method includes placing a previously chemically strengthened glass pane in the process chamber of a magnetron device and subject to the ion cleaning process, coating the top surface of the glass pane with a titanium layer using a magnetron sputter deposition method, and onto the uniform titanium layer, ceramic overprints of nanoparticles reproducing refined building material aggregates are made with the use of printing nozzles to obtain an array of micro-objects in the form of toroids, then imeerzing the glass pane in a water solution of hydrofluoric acid and subject to the electrochemical process. The glass pane is placed in a furnace for a thermal fixing process and bound with a float glass pane by lamination with the use of a polymer lamination films having photovoltaic cells.