ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,844, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Meyer Burger (Germany) GmbH (Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany).

"Backside emitter solar cell structure having a heterojunction" was invented by Jun Zhao (Port, Switzerland) and Marcel Koenig (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backside emitter solar cell structure having a heterojunction. On one side edge of the backside emitter solar cell structure having the heterojunction, on an edge region of a crystalline semiconductor substrate of the backside emitter solar cell structure having the heterojunction having a doping of a first conductivity type, there is a layer sequence with a ...