US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on June 2 for "Method and system for treating a stack intended for the manufacture of a heterojunction photovoltaic cell" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,255, issued on June 2, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method and system for treating a stack intended for the manufacture of a heterojunction photovoltaic cell" was invented by Pedro Jeronimo (Grenoble cedex 09, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for treating a stack intended for manufacture of a photovoltaic cell includes placing the stack in an enclosure, exposing the stack to electromagnetic radiation, and cooling the stack during exposure. The photovoltaic cell is cooled by injecting a gas flow into the enclosure, regulating the injected gas flow taking into ac...