Patents by Inventor Ian R. SELLERS

Ian R. SELLERS 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).

  • True hot-carrier solar cell and hot-carrier transfer
    Patent number: 11749770
    Abstract: A photovoltaic device configured to substantially avoid radiative recombination of photo-generated carriers, reduce loss of energy of the photo-generated carriers through the phonon emission, extract photo-generated carriers substantially exclusively from the multi-frequency satellite valley(s) of the bandstructure of the used semiconductor material as opposed to the single predetermined extremum of the bandstructure. Methodologies of fabrication and operation of such a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University, The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
    Inventors: David Ferry, Vincent Whiteside, Ian R. Sellers
  • TRUE HOT-CARRIER SOLAR CELL AND HOT-CARRIER TRANSFER
    Publication number: 20210359151
    Abstract: A photovoltaic device configured to substantially avoid radiative recombination of photo-generated carriers, reduce loss of energy of the photo-generated carriers through the phonon emission, extract photo-generated carriers substantially exclusively from the multi-frequency satellite valley(s) of the bandstructure of the used semiconductor material as opposed to the single predetermined extremum of the bandstructure. Methodologies of fabrication and operation of such a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: David FERRY, Vincent WHITESIDE, Ian R. SELLERS