US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Dec. 30 for "Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite compounds" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,113, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite compounds" was invented by Weijun Ke (Evanston, Ill.), Konstantinos Stoumpos (Chicago), Ioannis Spanopoulos (Evanston, Ill.) and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Wilmette, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photoactive materials comprising organic-inorganic hybrid halide perovskite compounds are provided. Photovoltaic cells and light-emitting devices incorporating the photoactive materials into their light-absorbing and light-emitting layers, respectively, are also provided. The halide perovskites have an amAMX3 perovskite c...