ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,636, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China).
"Solar cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Jingsheng Jin (Zhejiang, China), Xinyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Nannan Yang (Zhejiang, China), Bike Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Lin'an Zhang (Zhejiang, China) and Guangming Liao (Zhejiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell and a photovoltaic module are disclosed, including: a substrate; a tunneling dielectric layer and a doped conductive layer disposed on the substrate, the tunneling dielectric layer being disposed between the doped conducti...