US Patent Issued to TANDEM PV on July 7 for "Thin film photovoltaic modules with perimeter bypass diodes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,522, issued on July 7, was assigned to TANDEM PV (San Jose, Calif.).

"Thin film photovoltaic modules with perimeter bypass diodes" was invented by Colin David Bailie (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Chris Eberspacher (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure include a photovoltaic device including a plurality of photovoltaic cells coupled in series. The photovoltaic cells include a first contact layer, a first charge transport layer (CTL) disposed over the first contact layer, an absorber layer disposed over the first CTL, a second CTL disposed over the absorber layer; and a second contact layer disposed...