ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,502, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Haining, China).

"Solar cell and method for preparing the same, tandem solar cell, and photovoltaic module" was invented by Huimin Li (Zhejiang, China), Menglei Xu (Zhejiang, China), Jie Yang (Zhejiang, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a solar cell, a tandem solar cell, and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes a substrate, a doped semiconductor layer, a passivation layer and a plurality of electrodes. The substrate is provided with textured structures on a portion of a surface of the substrate. The dope...