US Patent Issued to HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY on April 8 for "Molecular building block methods for producing high-efficiency organic solar cells and devices and systems produced therefrom" (Qatari Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,156, issued on April 8, was assigned to HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY (Doha, Qatar).

"Molecular building block methods for producing high-efficiency organic solar cells and devices and systems produced therefrom" was invented by Hicham Hamoudi (Doha, Qatar) and Golibjon Berdiyorov (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a fabrication method for constructing low-cost, morphologically stable, highly ordered, and crystalized layered organic solar cells. The method implements self-assembled molecular monolayers as building blocks (a bottom up strategy) to fabricate a device. This approach enables the creation of a layered...