US Patent Issued to SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 25 for "Generation of textured surfaces, manufacturing of tandem solar cells, and tandem solar cell" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,874, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG (Kahl am Main, Germany).

"Generation of textured surfaces, manufacturing of tandem solar cells, and tandem solar cell" was invented by Philipp Noack (Maisach, Germany), Bianca Wattenberg (Alling, Germany), Mirza Corda (Maisach, Germany) and Benjamin Mandlmeier (Poecking, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for generating a textured surface of a semiconductor layer, a surface of the semiconductor layer is etched anisotropically with a first alkaline etching solution to generate a surface of the semiconductor layer including pyramid-shape textures. Subseque...