ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,114, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Aligned metallization for solar cells" was invented by Taeseok Kim (Pleasanton, Calif.) and David Smith (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aligned metallization approaches for fabricating solar cells, and the resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a solar cell includes a semiconductor layer over a semiconductor substrate. A first plurality of discrete openings is in the semiconductor layer and exposes corresponding discrete portions of the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of doped regions is in the semiconductor substrate and ...