US Patent Issued to First Solar on March 25 for "Thin film stacks for group V doping, photovoltaic devices including the same, and methods for forming photovoltaic devices with thin film stacks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,231, issued on March 25, was assigned to First Solar Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Thin film stacks for group V doping, photovoltaic devices including the same, and methods for forming photovoltaic devices with thin film stacks" was invented by Sachit Grover (Campbell, Calif.), Chungho Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaoping Li (San Jose, Calif.), Dingyuan Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Roger Malik (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Gang Xiong (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the embodiments provided herein, a method for forming a photovoltaic device can include depositing a plurality of semiconductor layers. The plurality of semico...