US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Feb. 25 for "Indirect liftoff mechanism for high-throughput, single-source laser scribing for perovskite solar modules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,432, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Indirect liftoff mechanism for high-throughput, single-source laser scribing for perovskite solar modules" was invented by Austin Flick (Stanford, Calif.) and Reinhold H. Dauskardt (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertically selective liftoff scribing process is provided. One application is the fabrication of solar cells and solar modules. The basis of this technology is absorption of an indirectly focused laser beam in the front electrode material of the device, which enables removal of this...