US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on Oct. 7 for "Photovoltaic devices and methods" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,764, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Photovoltaic devices and methods" was invented by Jobeda Jamal Khanam (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Simon Y. Foo (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photovoltaic devices, and methods of fabricating photovoltaic devices. The photovoltaic devices may include a first electrode, at least one quantum dot layer, at least one semiconductor layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode may include a layer including Cr and one or more silver contacts."

The patent was filed on June 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/3...