US Patent Issued to Swift Solar on June 30 for "Strong oxide transport layer with clusters and gap fill layer" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,418, issued on June 30, was assigned to Swift Solar Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Strong oxide transport layer with clusters and gap fill layer" was invented by Tomas Leijtens (Redwood City, Calif.), Giles Eperon (Arvada, Colo.) and Daniel Martinez (Wheat Ridge, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transport layers with clusters and a gap fill layer are described. In an embodiment, a solar cell includes a hole transport layer, a perovskite absorber layer and an electron transport layer. In such an embodiment, the electron transport layer includes clusters and a gap fill layer to improve the overall cohesion and mechanical strength of t...