Patents by Inventor Richard R. LUNT, III
Richard R. LUNT, III 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).
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Patent number: 11784009Abstract: A flexible photovoltaic device is provided. The flexible photovoltaic device includes a flexible inorganic halide perovskite. The flexible inorganic halide perovskite is free of organic components, has a thickness of greater than or equal to about 1 ?m to less than or equal to about 1 nm, and has an average grain size of less than or equal to about 500 nm.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. Lunt, III, Dianyi Liu
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Publication number: 20230282756Abstract: An energy harvesting system is provided. The energy harvesting system includes a waveguide, a luminophore embedded in the waveguide, and a solar photovoltaic array or a solar photovoltaic cell coupled to the waveguide. The energy harvesting system is visibly transparent, having an average visible transmittance of greater than about 50% and a color rendering index of greater than about 80 at normal incidence to the waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, Yimu ZHAO
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Patent number: 11688818Abstract: An energy harvesting system is provided. The energy harvesting system includes a waveguide, a luminophore embedded in the waveguide, and a solar photovoltaic array or a solar photovoltaic cell coupled to the waveguide. The energy harvesting system is visibly transparent, having an average visible transmittance of greater than about 50% and a color rendering index of greater than about 80 at normal incidence to the waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. Lunt, III, Yimu Zhao
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Publication number: 20230033629Abstract: A transparent luminescent solar concentrator (TLSC) is provided. The TLSC includes a luminophore and a waveguide that guides light emitted from the luminophore. The TLSC has a light utilization efficiency (LUE) of greater than or equal to about 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, Chenchen YANG, Babak BORHAN, Mehdi MOEMENI, Matthew BATES
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Publication number: 20220356395Abstract: A method of making nanoparticles including a semiconducting nitride is provided. The method includes reacting precursors in a gas phase to form the nanoparticles including the semiconducting nitride. The precursors include at least one of a gallium (Ga) precursor or an indium (In) precursor and a nitrogen (N) precursor. The semiconducting nitride is In1?xGaxN, where 0?x?1. Structures that include the nanoparticles and systems for making the nanoparticles are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, Rebecca J. ANTHONY, Alexander H. HO, Rajib MANDAL
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Publication number: 20220045278Abstract: Photo-active devices including a substrate, a first electrode, an active layer including an organic salt or salt mixture that selectively or predominantly harvests light from the near infrared or infrared regions of the solar spectrum, and a second electrode. The devices are either visibly transparent or visibly opaque and can be utilized in single- or multi-junction devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, John SUDDARD-BANGSUND, Christopher TRAVERSE, Margaret YOUNG
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Publication number: 20210351312Abstract: A solar concentrator device is provided. The solar concentrator device includes a waveguide having a luminophore and a first refractive index; a photovoltaic component operably coupled to the waveguide; and a film disposed onto a surface of the waveguide, the film having a second refractive index. The second refractive index of the film is lower than the first refractive index of the waveguide. The waveguide and the film are visibly transparent.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, Chenchen YANG
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Patent number: 11114623Abstract: Photo-active devices including a substrate, a first electrode, an active layer including an organic salt or salt mixture that selectively or predominantly harvests light from the near infrared or infrared regions of the solar spectrum, and a second electrode. The devices are either visibly transparent or visibly opaque and can be utilized in single- or multi-junction devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. Lunt, III, John Suddard-Bangsund, Christopher Traverse, Margaret Young
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Publication number: 20210230427Abstract: A luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) device is provided. The LSC device has an active layer including a modified luminophore having a polymethine component including a plurality of methine groups (?CH—)n, where n is an odd integer greater than 1. A hydrogen atom (H) of one of the plurality of methine groups is replaced by one of -AR1R2 or -DR3, where A is selected from nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb) and D is selected from oxygen (O), sulfur (S), selenium (Se), and tellurium (Te), R1 and R2 are independently selected from H, aliphatic groups, and aromatic groups bound to A through a carbon atom, or R1 and R2 together form an alicyclic ring containing A, and R3 is selected from H, aliphatic groups, aromatic groups, and alicyclic groups bound to D through a carbon atom.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, Babak BORHAN, Benjamin G. LEVINE, Wei SHENG, Jun ZHANG, Chenchen YANG
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Publication number: 20210148004Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes evaporating at least one precursor and depositing an epitaxial film containing a halide perovskite derived from the at least one precursor on a single crystal substrate. Semiconductor structures made by the method are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, Lili WANG, Pei CHEN
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Publication number: 20200373092Abstract: A photovoltaic device is provided. The photovoltaic device includes a metal salt layer disposed adjacent to a perovskite layer. The metal salt layer diffuses into the perovskite layer. Methods for fabricating the photovoltaic device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, Lili WANG
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Publication number: 20200098942Abstract: An energy harvesting system is provided. The energy harvesting system includes a waveguide, a luminophore embedded in the waveguide, and a solar photovoltaic array or a solar photovoltaic cell coupled to the waveguide. The energy harvesting system is visibly transparent, having an average visible transmittance of greater than about 50% and a color rendering index of greater than about 80 at normal incidence to the waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, Yimu ZHAO
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Patent number: 10510914Abstract: A transparent luminescent solar concentrator is provided. The transparent luminescent solar concentrator has luminophores embedded within a waveguide matrix that both selectively absorb and emit near-infrared light to an edge mounted or embedded solar photovoltaic array.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2014Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. Lunt, III, Yimu Zhao
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Publication number: 20180108846Abstract: Photo-active devices including a substrate, a first electrode, an active layer including an organic salt or salt mixture that selectively or predominantly harvests light from the near infrared or infrared regions of the solar spectrum, and a second electrode. The devices are either visibly transparent or visibly opaque and can be utilized in single- or multi-junction devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, John SUDDARD-BANGSUND, Christopher TRAVERSE, Margaret YOUNG
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Publication number: 20170330693Abstract: A photovoltaic device is provided. The photovoltaic device includes a metal salt layer disposed adjacent to a perovskite layer. The metal salt layer diffuses into the perovskite layer. Methods for fabricating the photovoltaic device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, Lili WANG
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Publication number: 20140283896Abstract: A transparent luminescent solar concentrator is provided. The transparent luminescent solar concentrator has luminophores embedded within a waveguide matrix that both selectively absorb and emit near-infrared light to an edge mounted or embedded solar photovoltaic array.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Richard R. LUNT, III, Yimu ZHAO