US Patent Issued to TRINA SOLAR on Sept. 22 for "Solar cell" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,482, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TRINA SOLAR Co. LTD. (Changzhou, China).

"Solar cell" was invented by Yunyun Hu (Changzhou, China), Guanchao Xu (Changzhou, China), Zhuohan Zhang (Changzhou, China), Xueling Zhang (Changzhou, China), Daming Chen (Changzhou, China), Yifeng Chen (Changzhou, China), Zhiqiang Feng (Changzhou, China) and Pietro Peter Altermatt (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell is provided. The solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate. The front surface of the semiconductor substrate has a metal contact area and a non-metal contact area. A first tunneling layer, a first doped polysi...