US Patent Issued to Swift Solar on July 8 for "Mechanically strong connections for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,785, issued on July 8, was assigned to Swift Solar Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Mechanically strong connections for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells" was invented by Todd Krajewski (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tomas Leijtens (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solar cell modules and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a pair of tandem solar cells are a step surface or trench within the top subcell of a tandem solar cell is at least partially filled with another material such as an insulator support or electrically conductive support to transfer stress away from the absorber layer of the top subc...