ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,002, issued on Dec. 30.
"Thin film photovoltaic devices and manufacturing methods" was invented by Robert Necula (Montreal) and Riad Nechache (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thin film devices such as solar cells are typically patterned on substrates as thin films requiring that the devices be electrically isolated when arrays are formed and/or be mechanically separated for packaging. With the development of thin film processes based upon perovskite inks then large area substrates can be implemented. Further, such perovskite inks and their low temperature processing allow them to employ low temperature flexible and/or conform...