US Patent Issued to Oxford Photovoltaics on May 13 for "Multijunction photovoltaic devices with metal oxynitride layer" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,446, issued on May 13, was assigned to Oxford Photovoltaics Ltd. (Yarnton, Great Britain).

"Multijunction photovoltaic devices with metal oxynitride layer" was invented by Simon Kirner (Yarnton, Great Britain), Laura Miranda Perez (Yarnton, Great Britain), Immo Koetschau (Yarnton, Great Britain), Henry Snaith (Yarnton, Great Britain), Edward Crossland (Yarnton, Great Britain), Christopher Case (Yarnton, Great Britain) and Alan Sharp (Yarnton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-junction photovoltaic device comprising a layer of metal oxynitride between a first sub-cell and a second sub-cell is disclosed, the first su...