Patents by Inventor Samantha Cruz

Samantha Cruz 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).

  • DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR STRUCTURES IN MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS
    Publication number: 20220102577
    Abstract: A multijunction solar cell and its method of fabrication, including an upper and a lower solar subcell each having an emitter layer and a base layer forming a photoelectric junction; a near infrared (NIR) wideband reflector layer disposed below the upper subcell and above the lower subcell for reflecting light in the spectral range of 900 to 1050 nm which represents unused and undesired solar energy and thereby reducing the overall solar energy absorptance in the solar cell and providing thermodynamic radiative cooling of the solar cell when deployed in space outside the atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: SolAero Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel Derkacs, Bed Pantha, Samantha Cruz, Nathaniel Miller, Pravin Patel, Alexander Haas
  • Distributed bragg reflector structures in multijunction solar cells
    Patent number: 11282979
    Abstract: A multijunction solar cell and its method of fabrication, including an upper and a lower solar subcell each having an emitter layer and a base layer forming a photoelectric junction; a near infrared (NIR) wideband reflector layer disposed below the upper subcell and above the lower subcell for reflecting light in the spectral range of 900 to 1050 nm which represents unused and undesired solar energy and thereby reducing the overall solar energy absorptance in the solar cell and providing thermodynamic radiative cooling of the solar cell when deployed in space outside the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SolAero Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel Derkacs, Bed Pantha, Samantha Cruz, Nathaniel Miller, Pravin Patel, Alexander Haas
  • DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR STRUCTURES IN MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS
    Publication number: 20210391493
    Abstract: A multijunction solar cell and its method of fabrication, including an upper and a lower solar subcell each having an emitter layer and a base layer forming a photoelectric junction; a near infrared (NIR) wideband reflector layer disposed below the upper subcell and above the lower subcell for reflecting light in the spectral range of 900 to 1050 nm which represents unused and undesired solar energy and thereby reducing the overall solar energy absorptance in the solar cell and providing thermodynamic radiative cooling of the solar cell when deployed in space outside the atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: SolAero Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel Derkacs, Bed Pantha, Samantha Cruz, Nathaniel Miller, Pravin Patel, Alexander Haas
  • Distributed Bragg reflector structures in multijunction solar cells
    Patent number: 10749053
    Abstract: A multijunction solar cell and its method of fabrication, including an upper and a lower solar subcell each having an emitter layer and a base layer forming a photoelectric junction; a near infrared (NIR) wideband reflector layer disposed below the upper subcell and above the lower subcell for reflecting light in the spectral range of 900 to 1050 nm which represents unused and undesired solar energy and thereby reducing the overall solar energy absorptance in the solar cell and providing thermodynamic radiative cooling of the solar cell when deployed in space outside the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SolAero Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel Derkacs, Bed Pantha, Samantha Cruz, Nathaniel Miller, Pravin Patel, Alexander Haas
  • Multijunction solar cells having an indirect high band gap semiconductor emitter layer in the upper solar subcell
    Patent number: 10263134
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multijunction solar cell comprising: an upper solar subcell having an indirect band gap semiconductor emitter layer composed of greater than 0.8 but less than 1.0 mole fraction aluminum and a base layer, the emitter layer and the base layer forming a heterojunction solar subcell; and a lower solar subcell disposed beneath the upper solar subcell, wherein the lower solar subcell has an emitter layer and a base layer forming a photoelectric junction. In some embodiments, the emitter layer of the upper solar subcell is an n-type AlxGa1-xAs layer with 0.8<x<1.0 and having a band gap of greater than 2.0 eV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SolAero Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel Derkacs, Daniel Aiken, Samantha Cruz, Nathaniel Miller, Bed Pantha, Mark Stan
  • DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR STRUCTURES IN MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS
    Publication number: 20180254357
    Abstract: A multijunction solar cell and its method of fabrication, including an upper and a lower solar subcell each having an emitter layer and a base layer forming a photoelectric junction; a near infrared (NIR) wideband reflector layer disposed below the upper subcell and above the lower subcell for reflecting light in the spectral range of 900 to 1050 nm which represents unused and undesired solar energy and thereby reducing the overall solar energy absorptance in the solar cell and providing thermodynamic radiative cooling of the solar cell when deployed in space outside the atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: SolAero Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel Derkacs, Bed Pantha, Samantha Cruz, Nathaniel Miller, Pravin Patel, Alexander Haas