US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 27 for "Perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaic device" (Arizona, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,641, issued on May 27, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaic device" was invented by Zhengshan Yu (Gilbert, Ariz.), Zachary Holman (Phoenix), Bo Chen (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Jinsong Huang (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tandem photovoltaic device includes a silicon photovoltaic cell having a silicon layer, a perovskite photovoltaic cell having a perovskite layer, and an intermediate layer between a rear side of the perovskite photovoltaic cell...