ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,385, issued on June 30, was assigned to TRINA SOLAR Co. LTD. (Changzhou, China).

"Passivated contact structure and preparation method thereof, and solar cell and preparation method thereof" was invented by Chengfa Liu (Changzhou, China), Dongyun Lv (Changzhou, China), Daming Chen (Changzhou, China), Hong Chen (Changzhou, China), Zigang Wang (Changzhou, China) and Wei Liu (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation method of a passivated contact structure includes: forming a tunneling layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming an intrinsic semiconductor layer on the tunneling layer; forming a doped layer containing...