US 11,862,746 B2
Ultrawide-angle light collecting modules formed by direct light-writing of nanoparticle-based metallo-dielectric optical waveguides
Ian D. Hosein, Minoa, NY (US)
Assigned to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Syracuse, NY (US)
Filed by Ian D. Hosein, Minoa, NY (US)
Filed on Apr. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/856,301.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/837,478, filed on Apr. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0343399 A1, Oct. 29, 2020
Int. Cl. H01L 31/042 (2014.01); H01L 31/054 (2014.01); H01L 31/18 (2006.01); H01L 31/048 (2014.01); B82Y 20/00 (2011.01)
CPC H01L 31/0543 (2014.12) [H01L 31/0481 (2013.01); H01L 31/186 (2013.01); B82Y 20/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A solar cell, comprising:
a surface having a series of contacts thereon; and
a resin cast over the surface and the series of contacts, wherein the resin defines a series of waveguides that extend through the resin normally relative to the surface, wherein each of the waveguides comprises a core and a cladding for total internal reflection with the core having a plurality of silver nanoparticles distributed therein.