Abstract: A bypass diode can include a first conductive region of a first conductivity type disposed above a substrate of a solar cell and a second conductive region of a second conductivity type disposed above the first conductive region. The bypass diode can include a thin dielectric region disposed directly between the first and second conductive regions.

Abstract: Solar trackers that may be advantageously employed on sloped and/or variable terrain to rotate solar panels to track motion of the sun across the sky include bearing assemblies and other mechanical features configured to address mechanical challenges posed by the sloped and/or variable terrain that might otherwise prevent or complicate use of solar trackers on such terrain.

Abstract: A solar panel system includes a rail including a horizontal flange, a rib, and a channel. A clamp assembly includes a first member having a first side having a groove for receiving a portion of the rib and an anchor member for inserting into the channel. The clamp assembly further includes a second member slideably disposed on a second side of the first member and an actuator. When the actuator is actuated, the second member moves in a direction towards a bottom surface of a solar panel such that a top portion of the second member comes into contact with a bottom portion of the solar panel and electrically bonds with the solar panel, and an anchor member of the actuator comes into contact with an inside surface of the channel and electrically bonds with the rail.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte for an all-solid secondary battery, the solid electrolyte including: Li, S, P, an M1 element, and an M2 element, wherein the M1 element is at least one element selected from Na, K, Rb, Sc, Fr, and the M2 element is at least one element selected from F, Cl, Br, I, molar amounts of lithium and the M1 element satisfy 0<M1/(Li+M1)?0.07, and the solid electrolyte has peaks at positions of 15.42°±0.50° 2?, 17.87° degrees±0.50° degrees 2?, 25.48° degrees±0.50° degrees 2?, 30.01° degrees±0.50° 2?, and 31.38°±0.50° 2? when analyzed by X-ray diffraction using CuK? radiation.

Abstract: A method of forming PV layers in which, during the curing process, an additional reaction accelerates and improves curing. In a particularly advantageous embodiment, a double layer sequence having a plastic matrix in which continuous metal particles and, in the upper layer, alkaline-solubilised siloxane portions and metal particles are provided, allows, by means of combined definitive curing during the alkaline-solubilisation, the production of a PV layer sequence with which industrial waste heat/long-wave IR radiation can be utilised photovoltaically. The active exploitation of industrial waste heat/heat/body heat offers clear, financially-viable advantages in a great number of fields.

Abstract: A battery storage device for an electric vehicle includes a reinforcing panel that reduces impact energy and is disposed between a case and a battery module, whereby, when a car collision occurs, the battery module is protected from impact by the reinforcing panel, damage to the battery module is reduced, stability of the vehicle is secured, and manufacturing costs are reduced.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a back contact solar cell comprising: a first conductive type semiconductor substrate having a front surface and a rear surface of a texturing structure; an oxide layer formed on the front surface of the substrate; at least one first conductive type semiconductor region and second conductive type semiconductor region alternatively formed at predetermined intervals on the rear surface of the substrate; an oxide layer formed on the remaining rear surface of the substrate except for the first conductive type semiconductor region and the second conductive type semiconductor region; and electrodes formed on each of the first conductive type semiconductor region and the second conductive type semiconductor region.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a temperature sensing device having a plurality of thermocouple arrangements, each of the thermocouple arrangements having a forward conductor and a plurality of return conductors electrically connected with the forward conductor, the return conductors having a different conductive material than the respectively associated forward conductor, electrical junctions or groups of electrical junctions of the return conductors to the respectively associated forward conductor being arranged at different longitudinal positions of the respectively associated forward conductor, and consecutive longitudinal positions of the electrical junctions or of groups of the electrical junctions of all thermocouple arrangements in the longitudinal direction of all forward conductors alternating between different forward conductors. Further, the present disclosure relates to a method of producing a temperature sensing device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a separator for a lithium metal battery and a lithium ion secondary battery including the same. The separator is provided with a porous coating layer including a high content of binder resin. The content of binder resin in the porous coating layer is 25 wt % or more based on 100 wt % of the porous coating layer, and the porous coating layer faces a negative electrode.

Abstract: The present specification relates to a copolymer including a first unit represented by Chemical Formula 1; and a second unit represented by Chemical Formula 2, and an organic solar cell including the same.

Abstract: Disclosed is a solar cell panel including a plurality of solar cells including a first solar cell and a second solar cell. Each of the first and second solar cells includes a semiconductor substrate, a first conductive area disposed on a first surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second conductive area disposed on a second surface of the semiconductor substrate which is opposite the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first transparent electrode layer disposed on the first conductive area, a second transparent electrode layer disposed on the second conductive area, and a plurality of interconnectors spaced apart from one another at a constant pitch on the first transparent electrode layer so as to extend in a given direction. Each of the first and second solar cells lacks a metal electrode intersecting the plurality of interconnectors on the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: Solar trackers that may be advantageously employed on sloped and/or variable terrain to rotate solar panels to track motion of the sun across the sky include bearing assemblies and other mechanical features configured to address mechanical challenges posed by the sloped and/or variable terrain that might otherwise prevent or complicate use of solar trackers on such terrain.

Abstract: Disclosed is a terminal cover, which covers a terminal of a battery pack and is detachably mounted to the battery pack. The terminal cover includes a cover body coupled to a pack case of the battery pack by hook coupling, and a detachment guide unit provided at both side surfaces of the cover body to allow the hook coupling of the cover body to be released based on pressing by a user.

Abstract: Provided is a battery module. The battery module includes: a first cooling pipe; a second cooling pipe connected to the first cooling pipe and arranged on a different plane than the first cooling pipe; and a branch unit connecting the first cooling pipe and second cooling pipe, wherein the branch unit includes: a lower connection pipe connected to the first cooling pipe; an upper connection pipe connected to the second cooling pipe; and a connection member into which one of the lower connection pipe and the upper connection pipe is inserted and which is inserted into the other one of the lower connection pipe and the upper connection pipe.

Abstract: A portable system for mounting a solar panel includes a modular base defining a set of interconnecting components that assemble via a set of intra-assembly features into a portable base for a solar panel. The modular base includes lower and upper relief to provide passive ventilation to the interior of the modular base and recesses to accommodate a user's appendages during assembly, and ballast volumes to retain a non-rigid ballast to weight the module base holding it in place. The modular base includes adjustable panel retention structures to constrain solar panels of a range of dimensions and configured to carry moisture away from the solar panel. The modular base includes a set of latches and corresponding latch receivers to fix adjacent modular bases together at a fixed distance less than the width of a human hand to form an array.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion device includes: a thermoelectric module layer, in which a thermoelectric conversion chip is surrounded by a thermal insulation rubber containing a rubber component and a hollow filler forming a plurality of air gaps that are independent from one another; an insulation base layer and an insulation intermediate layer, which are thermal-conductive insulation sheets and sandwiches the thermoelectric module layer; a heat diffusion layer, which has a higher thermal conductance than those of the insulation base layer and the insulation intermediate layer and is stacked on the insulation intermediate layer; and a thermal radiation layer, which has thermal conductivity and is stacked on the heat diffusion layer. And at least one pair among the adjacent layers is bonded through chemical bonds.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for implementing high conversion efficiency solar cells. In one aspect, an optical-to-electrical energy conversion device includes a substrate formed of a doped semiconductor material and having a first region and a second region, an array of multilayered nanoscale structures protruding from the first region of the substrate, in which the nanoscale structures are formed of a first co-doped semiconductor material covered by a layer of a second co-doped semiconductor material forming a core-shell structure, the layer covering at least a portion of the doped semiconductor material of the substrate in the second region, and an electrode formed on the layer-covered portion of the substrate in the second region, in which the multilayered nanoscale structures provide an optical active region capable of absorbing photons from light at one or more wavelengths to generate an electrical signal presented at the electrode.

Abstract: A thermoelectric power-generation device includes: a first flow path through which a high-temperature medium flows; a second flow path through which a low-temperature medium that has a temperature difference with respect to the high-temperature medium flows; an insulating isolation plate configured to isolate the first flow path from the second flow path; insulating outer layer isolation plates provided at outermost portions of layered flow paths including the first flow path and the second flow path; a plurality of thermoelectric conversion units configured to generate power using the temperature difference; and electrodes provided at the outer layer isolation plates and configured to connect the thermoelectric conversion units with mutually different semiconductor polarities in series, and the thermoelectric conversion units are disposed so as to straddle the first flow path and the second flow path.

Abstract: A moldable photovoltaic module is provided. The module includes a flexible polymeric flex-circuit substrate having an electrically conductive printed wiring pattern and solder pads defined on it. Small photovoltaic cells are affixed to the flex-circuit substrate by back-surface contacts in electrical contact with the solder pads. At least one thermoformable polymeric film is joined to the flex-circuit substrate. Each said solder pad comprises a solder composition that, after an initial melt, has a melting point that lies above at least a portion of the temperature range for thermoforming the polymeric film.

Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) cell structures are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a PV cell includes an emitter layer, a base layer adjacent to the emitter layer, and a back surface field (BSF) layer adjacent to the base layer. The BSF layer includes a first layer, and a second layer adjacent to the first layer. The first layer includes a first material and the second layer includes a second material different than the first material.