There is a prominence of deposited patents for polymer-based photovoltaic cell technologies, carbon nanostructures, III-V compounds, CdTe and amorphous silicon cells. The objective of this article is to identify the technological development of photovoltaic cells by the analysis of patents.
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The patents that stand out in this TR are: US20040200520A1 (Metal contact structure for solar cell and method of manufacture), US20050016585A1 (Manufacturing a solar cell with backside contacts), US20060130891A1 (Back-contact photovoltaic cells) and US20070186970A1 (Solar cell and method of fabricating the same).
The patents on photovoltaic cells are concentrated in the area of semiconductors for the conversion of solar radiation into electric energy, in the area of generators for the direct conversion of light energy into electric energy and in the area of solar panels adapted for roof structures.
The TR of Mechanisms for Assembling Solar Modules ( Fig. 5) is made up of 35 patents, extracted from a cluster of 11,830 patents and 24,174 citations, all of them protected in the USA, and more recently protected in China, EPO, Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom (UK).
In the ninth position, with 151 patents, is First Solar, a US company one of the largest manufacturers of photovoltaic solar modules with production units in the United States, Malaysia, Germany and Pakistan.
Photovoltaic technology has developed rapidly over the last thirty years. The main activities of photovoltaic patents began in the late 1950s and the main photovoltaic patent assignees at that time were involved in the space business , . Patent data has been widely used in technology assessment and forecasting , , , .
Is to identified the technological development of photovoltaic cells by the analysis of patents. The main depositor countries are the USA, China, Japan, Germany and South Korea. American and Japanese organizations stand out with the highest number of patent registrations.
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