US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for non-epitaxial high Schottky-barrier heterojunction solar cells" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,418, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for non-epitaxial high Schottky-barrier heterojunction solar cells" was invented by Phillip R. Jahelka (Altadena, Calif.), Rebecca D. Glaudell (Des Plaines, Ill.) and Harry A. Atwater (South Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of non-epitaxial high Schottky barriers heterojunction solar cells are described. The high Schottky barriers heterojunction solar cells are formed using non-epitaxial methods to reduce fabrication costs and improve scalability."

The patent was filed on June 14, 202...