ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,609, issued on July 28, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).
"Zinc oxide laminate for an organic thin film solar cell" was invented by Hikaru Kobayashi (Tokyo), Mikito Suto (Tokyo), Yusuke Fushiwaki (Tokyo) and Akira Matsuzaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminate including a member that serves as a light-transmissive electrode layer and a zinc oxide layer that serves as an electron transport layer for an organic thin-film solar cell is provided. The zinc oxide layer has a Zn deposition amount of not less than 20.0 mg/m2 and not more than 120.0 mg/m2. An S value represented by Formula (1) is not more than 0.90 when, in...