US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on June 23 for "Methods of growing large crystals of all-inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic cesium lead bromide perovskites from solution" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,391, issued on June 23, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Methods of growing large crystals of all-inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic cesium lead bromide perovskites from solution" was invented by Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Wilmette, Ill.), Yucheng Liu (Evanston, Ill.) and Lei Pan (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of growing large, free-standing single crystals of (FAxCs1-x)PbBr3 perovskites, where 0less than equal toxgreater than1, in solution using tertiary or ternary alkyl ammonium salts, weak organic acids, or a combination thereof are provided. By including the additives in a crysta...