US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on July 1 for "Systems and methods to perform electroluminescence and photoluminescence characterization in the field on photovoltaic modules, strings, and arrays" (Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,186, issued on July 1, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Systems and methods to perform electroluminescence and photoluminescence characterization in the field on photovoltaic modules, strings, and arrays" was invented by Hubert Seigneur (Orlando, Fla.) and Ryan Smith (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photoluminescence and electroluminescence are essential characterization techniques for photovoltaics cells and modules. For electroluminescence, the main technical challenge is easily injecting current into the photovoltaic to cause luminescence. The technique described ...