US Patent Issued to CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA-RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT on Sept. 30 for "Photovoltaic device with passivated contact and corresponding method of manufacture" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,060, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA-RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Photovoltaic device with passivated contact and corresponding method of manufacture" was invented by Andrea Ingenito (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Sylvain Nicolay (Portalban, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a photovoltaic device including: -a silicon substrate; -a first tunnel layer situated upon at least a first side of the silicon substrate; -a first polycrystalline silicon-based capping layer situated upon the first tunnel layer; and -a second tunnel layer ...