ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,845, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to China Triumph International Engineering Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and CTF Solar Gmbh (Dresden, Germany).
"Method for activating an absorber layer of a thin-film solar cell" was invented by Shou Peng (Shanghai), Ganhua Fu (Shanghai), Liyun Ma (Shanghai), Xinjian Yin (Shanghai) and Christian Drost (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention refers to a method for activating an absorber layer of a semi-finished thin-film solar cell. The absorber layer comprises CdSexTe1-x, CdSe, CdS or CdTe. The method comprises the steps of providing a semi-finished thin-film solar cell with an absor...