US Patent Issued to ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGERE SUISSE on Feb. 24 for "Photovoltaic cell with a specific arrangement of energy collectors, and method for producing such a cell" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,859, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGERE SUISSE (Grenchen, Switzerland).

"Photovoltaic cell with a specific arrangement of energy collectors, and method for producing such a cell" was invented by Francois Klopfenstein (Delemont, Switzerland), Francois Gueissaz (Cormondreche, Switzerland) and Alexandre Didier (Erlach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic cell (1) including a first front collector layer (4), an amorphous silicon layer (6) on the first layer (4) and a second conductive layer (8) on the amorphous silicon layer (6). Electrical connection of the second conductive layer (8) t...