Patents by Inventor George Zapalac

George Zapalac has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Detection and ablation of localized shunting defects in photovoltaics
    Publication number: 20070227586
    Abstract: Increasing the efficiency of a photovoltaic stack by locating a position of a relatively small region in the photovoltaic stack that shunts the photocurrent generated within a substantially larger region of the photovoltaic stack, and electrically isolating at least a portion of the photovoltaic stack in the position of the localized shunting defect, so as to substantially remove any shunting effect caused by the localized shunting defect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: George Zapalac