US Patent Issued to Azur Space Solar Power on Nov. 25 for "Stacked monolithic upright metamorphic multijunction solar cell" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,313, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Azur Space Solar Power GmbH (Heilbronn, Germany).

"Stacked monolithic upright metamorphic multijunction solar cell" was invented by Daniel Fuhrmann (Heilbronn, Germany), Rosalinda Van Leest (Heilbronn, Germany) and Matthias Meusel (Heilbronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked monolithic upright metamorphic multijunction solar cell, comprising at least one first subcell having a first band gap, a first lattice constant and being made up of germanium by more than 50%, a second subcell, which is disposed above the first subcell and has a second band gap and a second lattice constant...