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EP3018718 - Solar cell stack [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	Examination is in progress Status updated on 15.06.2018 Database last updated on 19.10.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	24.11.2023	New entry: Renewal fee paid
Applicant(s)	For all designated states AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH Theresienstrasse 2 74072 Heilbronn / DE
	[2016/19]
Inventor(s)	01 / Fuhrmann, Daniel Auerbachstrasse 8 74074 Heilbronn / DE
	02 / Guter, Wolfgang Landhausstrasse 56 70190 Stuttgart / DE
	[2016/19]
Representative(s)	Koch Müller Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH Maaßstraße 32/1 69123 Heidelberg / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2016/19]	Koch Müller Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH Maaßstraße 32/1 69123 Heidelberg / DE
Application number, filing date	14003768.0	10.11.2014
	[2016/19]
Filing language	DE
Procedural language	DE
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP3018718
	Date:	11.05.2016
	Language:	DE
	[2016/19]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	13.05.2015
Classification	IPC:	H01L31/0687, H01L31/0304	[2016/19]
	CPC:	H01L31/06875 (EP,US); H01L31/0687 (EP,CN,US); H01L31/03042 (EP,US); H01L31/035272 (CN); H01L31/056 (US); H01L31/0693 (US); (+) Y02E10/52 (EP,US); Y02E10/544 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting states	AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2016/19]
Extension states	BA	Not yet paid
	ME	Not yet paid
Title	German:	Solarzellenstapel	[2016/19]
	English:	Solar cell stack	[2016/19]
	French:	Piles de cellules solaires	[2016/19]
Examination procedure	08.11.2015	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	10.11.2015	Examination requested [2016/19]
	13.06.2018	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	01.09.2018	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	11.11.2020	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	22.03.2021	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	24.10.2022	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	03.03.2023	Reply to a communication from the examining division
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	23.11.2016	Renewal fee patent year 03
	24.11.2017	Renewal fee patent year 04
	22.11.2018	Renewal fee patent year 05
	26.11.2019	Renewal fee patent year 06
	20.11.2020	Renewal fee patent year 07
	24.11.2021	Renewal fee patent year 08
	24.11.2022	Renewal fee patent year 09
	24.11.2023	Renewal fee patent year 10
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Documents cited:	Search	[XI]US2011220190 (LEE RONG-REN [TW], et al) [X] 1,3-10,12-15 * abstract * * paragraphs [0006] , [0011] , [0012] , [0013] , [0014] * [I] 2;
		[A]DE102013000882 (FRAUNHOFER GES FORSCHUNG [DE]) [A] 1-3,6-10,12,14,15 * the whole document *;
		[A] - HECTOR COTAL ET AL, "III-V multijunction solar cells for concentrating photovoltaics", ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, (20081210), vol. 2, no. 2, doi:10.1039/b809257e, ISSN 1754-5692, page 174, XP055033873 [A] 1-3,6-10,12-15 * section 2 Device architectures; page 177 - page 181; figures 6(a),6(b) * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/B809257E
		[A] - LI K L ET AL, "Effects of Si doping on the strain relaxation of metamorphic (Al)GaInP buffers grown on GaAs substrates", APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE, (20131018), vol. 288, doi:10.1016/J.APSUSC.2013.10.058, ISSN 0169-4332, pages 482 - 487, XP028780732 [A] 1,3,6-10,13 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2013.10.058
		[A] - TANGRING I ET AL, "A study of the doping influence on strain relaxation of graded composition InGaAs layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy", JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH, ELSEVIER, AMSTERDAM, NL, vol. 311, no. 7, doi:10.1016/J.JCRYSGRO.2008.11.019, ISSN 0022-0248, (20090315), pages 1684 - 1687, (20081117), XP026065714 [A] 1,6-8,10,13 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2008.11.019
		[A] - V. KLINGER ET AL, "Determination of hardness and Young's modulus for important III-V compound semiconductors", THIN SOLID FILMS, (20130829), vol. 548, doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.079, ISSN 0040-6090, pages 358 - 365, XP055156264 [A] 1-3,6-8 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.079

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