ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,548, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to First Solar Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).
"Photovoltaic top module" was invented by Erik Wallin (Uppsala, Sweden), Olle Lundberg (Uppsala, Sweden) and Lars Stolt (Uppsala, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one or more embodiments herein, a method of manufacturing a photovoltaic (PV) top module, to be used together with a PV bottom module, e.g an SI-based PV bottom module, is provided. The method may include monolithically interconnecting a plurality of thin film based PV sub-cells, manufactured using a perovskite material and/or a CIGS material as solar absorbing material, in seri...