US Patent Issued to NewSouth Innovations on Sept. 16 for "Perovskite solar cell and method of making the same" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,190, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NewSouth Innovations Pty Ltd. (Sydney).

"Perovskite solar cell and method of making the same" was invented by Xiaojing Hao (Sydney), Xu Liu (Sydney), Martin Andrew Green (Sydney) and Ziheng Liu (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a photovoltaic device comprising a perovskite photovoltaic cell, particularly a method of forming a perovskite solar cell (PSC), is disclosed having a hole transport layer comprising an additive that may result in one or more of reduced formation of crystalline domains in the hole transport layer; reduced size of pinholes in the hole transport ...