US Patent Issued to SolAero Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Method of fabricating metamorphic multijunction solar cells for space applications" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,736, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SolAero Technologies Corp (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Method of fabricating metamorphic multijunction solar cells for space applications" was invented by Daniel Derkacs (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Daniel McGlynn (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a four junction solar cell by identifying the composition and band gaps of the upper first, second and third subcells that maximizes the efficiency of the solar cell at a predetermined time after initial deployment by simulation; fabricating one or more four-junction test solar cells in accordance with the identified compos...