Patents by Inventor Jan Benick

Jan Benick 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).

  • Publication number: 20170236970
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing doping regions in a semiconductor layer of a semiconductor component, wherein the method includes the following steps: A) implanting a first dopant of a first doping type into at least one implantation region in the semiconductor layer, which implantation region adjoins a first side of the semiconductor layer; B) applying a doping layer, which contains a second dopant of a second doping type, indirectly or directly at least to the first side of the semiconductor layer, wherein the first and the second doping type are opposite; C) by the effect of heat, simultaneously driving the second dopant from the doping layer into the semiconductor layer and performing one or more of the processes of at least partially activating the implanted dopant in the implantation region and/or performing at least partial recovery of crystal damage in the semiconductor layer, which crystal damage was produced by the implantation, and/or driving in the first dopant from the implantatio
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Martin Hermle, Christian Reichel, Jan Benick, Ralph Muller, Julian Schrof
  • Patent number: 8900908
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for local high-doping and contacting of a semiconductor structure which is a solar cell or a precursor of a solar cell and has a silicon semiconductor substrate (1) of a base doping type. The high-doping and contacting is effected by producing a plurality of local high-doping regions of the base doping type in the semiconductor substrate (1) on a contacting side (1a) of the semiconductor substrate and applying a metal contacting layer (7) to the contacting side (1a) or, if applicable, one or more intermediate layers wholly or partially covering the contacting side (1a), to form electrically conductive connections between the metal contacting layer (7) and the semiconductor substrate (1) at the high doping regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V., Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Inventors: Dominik Suwito, Jan Benick, Ulrich Jager
  • Publication number: 20120301995
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for local high-doping and contacting of a semiconductor structure which is a solar cell or a precursor of a solar cell and has a silicon semiconductor substrate (1) of a base doping type. The high-doping and contacting is effected by producing a plurality of local high-doping regions of the base doping type in the semiconductor substrate (1) on a contacting side (1a) of the semiconductor substrate and applying a metal contacting layer (7) to the contacting side (1a) or, if applicable, one or more intermediate layers wholly or partially covering the contacting side (1a), to form electrically conductive connections between the metal contacting layer (7) and the semiconductor substrate (1) at the high doping regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Dominik Suwito, Jan Benick, Ulrich Jager