US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH CENTER KONSTANZ on May 19 for "Interdigitated back contact solar cell and method for producing an interdigitated back contact solar cell" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,259, issued on May 19, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH CENTER KONSTANZ E.V. (Constance, Germany).

"Interdigitated back contact solar cell and method for producing an interdigitated back contact solar cell" was invented by Florian Buchholz (Constance, Germany), Jan Hoss (Constance, Germany) and Jonathan Linke (Constance, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an interdigitated back contact solar cell (10, a, b, c), comprising a monocrystalline, n-doped wafer (101), a first contact area (40) which is formed by a first stack on the surface of said monocrystalline wafer (101), said first stack comprising a...