US Patent Issued to RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY on Feb. 3 for "TOPCon solar cell and method for manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,382, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"TOPCon solar cell and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Duy Phong Pham (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seung Yong Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Kuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jun Sin Yi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact (TOPCon) solar cell, and a method therefor are provided. The TOPCon solar cell includes: a silicon substrate; a tunneling layer formed on a surface of the silicon substrate; a polycrystalline silicon layer formed on a surface of...