US Patent Issued to THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND on Oct. 27 for "Large-area Schottky-junction photovoltaics using transition-metal dichalcogenides" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,739, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND (New Orleans, Fla.).

"Large-area Schottky-junction photovoltaics using transition-metal dichalcogenides" was invented by Matthew David Escarra (New Orleans), Kazi M. Islam (New Orleans) and Timothy Ismael (New Orleans).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic device includes a thin film of a transition-metal dichalcogenide, a first electrode made of a first metal directly contacting the thin film, and a second electrode made of a second metal directly contacting the thin film. The first metal is molybdenum, titanium, aluminum, tantalum, s...