ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,111, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).
"Solar cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Huimin Li (Zhejiang, China), Menglei Xu (Zhejiang, China), Jie Yang (Zhejiang, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solar cell and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes: a substrate having a front surface and a rear surface, a first doped polycrystalline silicon layer doped with N-type dopant ions and disposed over the front surface or over the rear surface, and a second doped polycrystalline silicon laye...