US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL on Aug. 11 for "Defect engineering in wide bandgap perovskites for efficient and stable fully textured perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,885, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Defect engineering in wide bandgap perovskites for efficient and stable fully textured perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells" was invented by Jinsong Huang (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Guang Yang (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are perovskite ink solutions comprising a composition of Formula I (APbI3-zBrz), a tribromide salt, and a solvent, wherein z is defined herein. Further described are perovskite films prepared using the ink solutions, methods for preparing the perovskite films, and use of t...