US Patent Issued to HELIATEK, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewanten Forschung on Oct. 14 for "Stabilization of laser-structured organic photovoltaics" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,390, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HELIATEK GmbH (Dresden, Germany) and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewanten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Stabilization of laser-structured organic photovoltaics" was invented by Ulrike Bewersdorff-Sarlette (Dresden, Germany), Martin Pfeiffer-Jacob (Dresden, Germany), Michiel Top (Dresden, Germany), John Fahlteich (Dresden, Germany) and Nicole Prager (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When organic photovoltaic components are laser-structured, protuberances occur, which can protrude significantly beyond the height of the layered stack. The invention describes a technique ...