ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,206, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Korea Photonics Technology Institute (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Method of manufacturing III-V group nanorod solar cell so that substrate can be reused" was invented by Hyo Jin Kim (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a III-V group nanorod solar cell so that a substrate can be reused. The method may includes a first growth process of forming an etch stop layer on a substrate, a second growth process of growing a sacrificial layer on the etch stop layer, a third growth process of forming, on the sacrificial layer, a pattern layer including an o...