US Patent Issued to Tandem PV on May 19 for "Photovoltaic cell assembly with ultraviolet filtering" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,288, issued on May 19, was assigned to Tandem PV (San Jose, Calif.).

"Photovoltaic cell assembly with ultraviolet filtering" was invented by Colin David Bailie (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Chris Eberspacher (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Thomas Michael Brenner (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic device includes a plurality of photovoltaic cells coupled in series, the photovoltaic cells including a first contact layer disposed over a first substrate, 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, an...