Patents by Inventor Zhaoning Song

Zhaoning Song has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Architecture for Efficient Monolithic Bifacial Perovskite-CdSeTe Tandem Thin Film Solar Cells and Modules
    Publication number: 20220199845
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device comprising two photovoltaic absorber materials of CdSeTe and perovskite and their functional component layers that are monolithically integrated into a bifacial tandem solar cell structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: The University of Toledo
    Inventors: Zhaoning Song, Kamala Khanal Subedi, Randy Ellingson, Yanfa Yan
  • Inexpensive, earth-abundant, tunable hole transport material for CdTe solar cells
    Patent number: 11251385
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: The University of Toledo
    Inventors: Randall J. Ellingson, Khagendra P. Bhandari, Michael Heben, Suneth Watthage, Zhaoning Song
  • Inexpensive, Earth-Abundant, Tunable Hole Transport Material For CdTe Solar Cells
    Publication number: 20180219166
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: The University of Toledo
    Inventors: Randall J. Ellingson, Khagendra P. Bhandari, Michael Heben, Suneth Watthage, Zhaoning Song