US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO on March 24 for "PERC-tandem solar cell with sacrificial layer" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,298, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO (The Hague, Netherlands).

"PERC-tandem solar cell with sacrificial layer" was invented by John Anker (The Hague, Netherlands) and Lambert Johan Geerligs (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a two terminal or three terminal tandem solar cell with a silicon-based bottom solar cell and a thin-film top solar cell involving: providing a silicon substrate with a front surface and a rear surface, carrying out a sequence of steps including: creating on the front surface a carrier e...