First Solar was granted a patent for narrower photovoltaic-device scribes.

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    "patent_title": "Photovoltaic devices with narrow scribes and methods and systems for forming the same",
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    "uspto_assignee": "First Solar, Inc.",
    "patent_abstract": "According to the embodiments provided herein, a method for scribing a layer stack of a photovoltaic device can include directing a laser scribing waveform to a film side of a layer stack. The laser scribing waveform can include pulse groupings that repeat at a group repetition period of greater than or equal to 1.5 μs. Each pulse of the pulse groupings can have a pulse width of less than or equal to 900 fs.",
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