# David Emil Carlson — Patents explained on PatentBrief

David Emil Carlson has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Amorphous Silicon Changed Solar Power](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/4064521/semiconductor-device-having-a-body-of-amorphous-silicon) — granted 1977
  This 1976 patent describes using a specific form of non-crystalline silicon to create cheap, thin semiconductor devices like solar cells.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/david-emil-carlson

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