ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,156, issued on July 15, was assigned to Energy Materials Corp. (Rochester, N.Y.).
"Method for making a perovskite layer at high speed" was invented by Qi Li (Perrysburg, Ohio), Scott Kenneth Christensen (North Chili, N.Y.), Thomas Nathaniel Tombs (Rochester, N.Y.) and Stephan J. DeLuca (Meadville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a perovskite layer includes providing a substrate; providing a perovskite solution comprising first and second polar, protic solvents each having a boiling point less than 135 degrees Celsius, an inorganic perovskite precursor, and an organic perovskite precursor, wherein the first solv...