US Patent Issued to TRINA SOLAR on July 1 for "Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,502, issued on July 1, was assigned to TRINA SOLAR Co. LTD. (Changzhou, China).

"Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Jungmin Ha (Seoul, South Korea), Sungjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Juhwa Cheong (Seoul, South Korea), Junyong Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Hyungwook Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Wonjae Chang (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaesung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell can include a silicon semiconductor substrate; an oxide layer on a first surface of the silicon semiconductor substrate; a polysilicon layer on the oxide layer; a diffusion region at a second surface of the s...