Inexpensive, earth-abundant, tunable hole transport material for CdTe solar cells

US11251385B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The University of Toledo · US

Inventors

• Randall J. Ellingson · Ithaca, US
• Khagendra P. Bhandari · Toledo, US
• Michael J. Heben · Denver, US
• Suneth Watthage · Toledo, US
• Zhaoning Song · Toledo, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 26, 2018
• Grant date: Feb 15, 2022
• Expiry date: Feb 9, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/549

Abstract

Hole transport layers, electron transport layers, layer stacks, and optoelectronic devices involving perovskite materials and materials used as precursors, and methods of making the same, are described.