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2017
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IBM
›
Hans-Juergen Eickelmann
HE
Hans-Juergen Eickelmann
— 9 Patents in 2017
IBM
:
8
patents
#615
of
10,852
Top 6%
Globalfoundries
:
1
patents
#454
of
1,311
Top 35%
Nieder-Hilbersheim, DE
:
#1
of
2
inventors
Top 50%
Overall
(2017):
#9,420
of
506,227
Top 2%
9
Patents 2017
Issued Patents
2017
Showing
1–9
of
9
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
9825192
Solar cell with reduced absorber thickness and reduced back surface recombination
Michael Haag
,
Ruediger Kellmann
,
Markus Schmidt
,
Johannes Windeln
2017-11-21
$3,803,000
9773927
Solar cell with reduced absorber thickness and reduced back surface recombination
Michael Haag
,
Ruediger Kellmann
,
Markus Schmidt
,
Johannes Windeln
2017-09-26
$3,108,000
9758861
Functionally graded material by in-situ gradient alloy sputter deposition management
Thorsten Muehge
,
Erik Rueger
,
Markus Schmidt
2017-09-12
$1,776,000
9755099
Integrated micro-inverter and thin film solar module and manufacturing process
Ruediger Kellman
,
Hartmut Kuehl
,
Markus Schmidt
2017-09-05
$9,231,000
9735309
Monolithically integrated thin-film electronic conversion unit for lateral multijunction thin-film solar cells
Ruediger Kellmann
,
Hartmut Kuehl
,
Markus Schmidt
2017-08-15
$1,588,000
9634171
Monolithically integrated thin-film electronic conversion unit for lateral multijunction thin-film solar cells
Ruediger Kellmann
,
Hartmut Kuehl
,
Markus Schmidt
2017-04-25
$1,937,000
9634166
Thin film photovoltaic cell with back contacts
Ruediger Kellmann
,
Hartmut Kuehl
,
Markus Schmidt
2017-04-25
$1,937,000
9583649
Thin film solar cell backside contact manufacturing process
Ruediger Kellmann
,
Hartmut Kuehl
,
Markus Schmidt
2017-02-28
$2,397,000
9577130
Thin film solar cell backside contact
Ruediger Kellmann
,
Hartmut Kuehl
,
Markus Schmidt
2017-02-21
$2,827,000
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