Patent application number | Description | Published |
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20130164883 | LASER ANNEALING APPLICATIONS IN HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS - Various laser processing schemes are disclosed for producing various types of hetero-junction and homo-junction solar cells. The methods include base and emitter contact opening, selective doping, metal ablation, annealing to improve passivation, and selective emitter doping via laser heating of aluminum. Also, laser processing schemes are disclosed that are suitable for selective amorphous silicon ablation and selective doping for hetero-junction solar cells. Laser ablation techniques are disclosed that leave the underlying silicon substantially undamaged. These laser processing techniques may be applied to semiconductor substrates, including crystalline silicon substrates, and further including crystalline silicon substrates which are manufactured either through wire saw wafering methods or via epitaxial deposition processes, or other cleavage techniques such as ion implantation and heating, that are either planar or textured/three-dimensional. These techniques are highly suited to thin crystalline semiconductor, including thin crystalline silicon films. | 06-27-2013 |
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20150263960 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLOUD BURSTING AND CLOUD BALANCING OF INSTANCES ACROSS CLOUDS - A multi-cloud fabric includes a multi-cloud master controller of a first cloud being in communication with one or more other clouds through a respective local cloud controller, the multi-cloud master controller operable to balance traffic across the first cloud and one or more other clouds. | 09-17-2015 |
20150264117 | PROCESSES FOR A HIGHLY SCALABLE, DISTRIBUTED, MULTI-CLOUD APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT, ORCHESTRATION AND DELIVERY FABRIC - A method of launching a controller unit in an Multi-Cloud Service Fabric includes launching a value added service (VAS) unit, launching a profiler, and sending tier event to the VAS unit with tier information. | 09-17-2015 |
20150281378 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATING CREATION OF USER INTERFACE ACROSS MULTI-CLOUDS - A multi-cloud fabric system includes a compiler that receives a data model and automatically generate artifacts for use by a plurality of plugins, the artifacts being distinct for each of the plugins, the artifacts used to create an image of a user interface (UI). A UI tier receives the image of the UI to create a user UI. Therefore, user UI is generated automatically and the multi-cloud fabric system is data-driven to support multiple users. | 10-01-2015 |
20150319050 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A FULLY AUTOMATED ENGINE THAT ENSURES PERFORMANCE, SERVICE AVAILABILITY, SYSTEM AVAILABILITY, HEALTH MONITORING WITH INTELLIGENT DYNAMIC RESOURCE SCHEDULING AND LIVE MIGRATION CAPABILITIES - A multi-cloud fabric system is disclosed to include a services controller in communication with resources of more than one cloud and responsive to policies from a user. The services controller monitors service level agreement (SLA), service assurance, and high availability and based thereon and on the policies from the user, moves resources across clouds of the more than one cloud to optimize performance of the system. | 11-05-2015 |