US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on March 18 for "Method for producing a perovskite solar cell" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,587, issued on March 18, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for producing a perovskite solar cell" was invented by Firoz Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The perovskite solar cell (PSC) includes a first layer containing a conducting material coated glass plate as a substrate, a second layer containing copper doped nickel oxide, a third layer containing a perovskite, a fourth layer containing nitrogen (N)-doped graphene quantum dots, a fifth layer containing phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester and a top layer including conductive layer. A method f...