ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,656, issued on April 14, was assigned to TRINA SOLAR Co. LTD (Changzhou, China).

"Large-area perovskite layer and preparation method therefor" was invented by Rui Xia (Changzhou, China), Yiqi Chen (Changzhou, China), Yao Wang (Changzhou, China), Yang Zou (Changzhou, China), Chengfa Liu (Changzhou, China), Xueling Zhang (Changzhou, China), Daming Chen (Changzhou, China) and Yifeng Chen (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a large-area perovskite layer and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method includes: dissolving raw materials of a perovskite in an ionic liquid or in a mixtu...