US Patent Issued to MEYER BURGER (GERMANY) on Sept. 9 for "Photovoltaic device and method for manufacturing the same" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,386, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MEYER BURGER (GERMANY) GMBH (Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany).

"Photovoltaic device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Damien Lachenal (Cortaillod, Switzerland), Pierre Papet (Hauterive, Switzerland) and Till Kossler (Morges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method to fabricate an interdigitated back contact photovoltaic device including: providing a substrate of a first-type doping being an n-type or a p-type doping; realizing on a back side a semiconducting doped structure including individual doped layers portions of the first type doping and a sem...