US Patent Issued to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Aug. 12 for "Solar cell employing phosphorescent materials" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,712, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"Solar cell employing phosphorescent materials" was invented by Vidhya Chakrapani (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell device having a solid state light absorber region that incorporates a donor-acceptor particle structure. The particle structure includes acceptor particles that generate a flow of electrons in the solid state light absorber region in response to absorbed photons; and donor particles comprising a phosphorescent material, wherein each donor particle is coupled to a group of acceptor particles, and wherein the pho...