METHOD OF INCREASING EFFICIENCY OF CONVERTING ENERGY OF ABSORBED FLUX OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES OF SUNLIGHT INTO ELECTRIC ENERGY WITH THE HELP OF CREATED "DARK CURRENT" AND VOLUME ULTRASONIC GRATING IN SILICON MONOCRYSTAL AS THE RESULT OF EXCITATION OF PERIODIC HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASONIC SHEAR WAVES IN IT Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC H01L27/14 

FIELD: power engineering.

SUBSTANCE: use to convert the energy of electromagnetic waves of the sunlight into electrical energy by silicon monocrystals. Core of the invention is in the fact that a method is proposed for increasing the efficiency of converting the energy of the absorbed light flux of electromagnetic waves into the electrical one by a converter created on the basis of a silicon monocrystal without a stationary photosensitive layer in the form of a p-n or a n-p transition associated with the formation of shear high-frequency ultrasonic waves in it by creating longitudinal sinusoidal high-frequency ultrasonic waves on the front of its absorbing surface with the amplitude of 4.0–10.0 V by a piezoelectric element from lithium niobate excited by a high-frequency ultrasonic generator of sinusoidal signals with a variable amplitude and the frequency of about 29.5 mHz.

EFFECT: ensuring the possibility of increasing the efficiency of converting the light flux into electrical energy.

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