US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on March 3 for "Method for thermally activating a passivation layer" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,707, issued on March 3, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for thermally activating a passivation layer" was invented by Mickael Albaric (Grenoble, France) and David Pelletier (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for thermally activating a passivation layer disposed on a photovoltaic cell. The photovoltaic cell includes a first face, a second face opposite to the first face, and side surfaces connecting the first and second faces. The passivation layer covers at least one of the side surfaces of the photovoltaic cell. The method includes exposing the fi...