US Patent Issued to KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 17 for "Carrier-selective contact junction silicon solar cell and manufacturing method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,427, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"Carrier-selective contact junction silicon solar cell and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Chae Hwan Jeong (Gwangju, South Korea) and Ki Seok Jeon (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a carrier-selective contact junction silicon solar cell includes: preparing a conductive silicon substrate; forming a first passivation layer and a second passivation layer on and under the conductive silicon substrate, respectively; forming an electron-selective contact layer under the seco...