Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Ike Gerke De Vries

Herbert Lifka

Jeroen Van Den Brand

Andreas Heinrich Dietzel

Cristina Tanase

Antonius Maria Bernardus Van Mol

Jeroen Anthonius Smeltink

Erik Dekempeneer

Hieronymus Antonius Josephus Maria Andriessen

Sabine Juliane Gabel

Arjan Langen

Adrianus Petrus Langen

Maarten Van Lent

A photovoltaic device () is provided that comprises serially arranged photovoltaic device cells (A,B). Each cell having a transparent electrode layer region electrical conductors (A, . . . ,A) forming an electric contact with the transparent electrode layer region, a photo-voltaic stack portion (A,B) that extends over the transparent electrode region (A,B) and over an insulated portion of the electrical conductors, a further electrode region (A,B) that extends over the photovoltaic stack portion (A,B). A further electrode region (A) of a photovoltaic device cell (A) extends over electric contacts formed by exposed ends (B) of the electrical conductors of a subsequent photovoltaic device cell (B).

Photovoltaic device and method of manufacturing the same

A slot-die coating apparatus for manufacturing a patterned coating layer () on a substrate () comprises a substrate carrier (), a coating device, a sensor facility () and a controller (). The substrate carrier () is arranged on a support for providing the substrate (). The coating device comprises a head-side unit and a support-side unit (resp.) that are mutually movable with respect to each other by a motor (). The head-side unit comprises a translator part () and a slot-die coating head (). The support-side unit () comprises a stator part () of the motor. The controller () controls the motor () to position the slot-die coating head at a desired distance (Ds). The support-side unit () has a mass that is at least equal to the mass of the head-side unit (), and the support-side unit () is flexibly coupled to the support ().

Slot-die coating method and apparatus

There is disclosed a slot-die coating method and apparatus, and a substrate having a patterned coating layer. The method comprises controlling an intermittent transfer of the coating fluid from a slot-die coating head onto the substrate surface to provide, by said intermittent transfer, coated areas on the substrate surface separated by uncoated areas. The substrate surface comprises a pre-patterned layer of high surface energy areas and low surface energy areas; wherein a contact angle of the coating fluid on the substrate surface is lower in the high surface energy areas than in the low surface energy areas. Boundaries between the low surface energy areas and high surface energy areas are arranged along a slit direction of the slot die coating head. The method further comprises synchronizing the intermittent transfer with a passage of an outflow opening over the boundaries between the low surface energy areas and high surface energy areas wherein the transfer is enabled when the outflow opening passes over a high surface energy area and wherein the transfer is disabled when the outflow opening passes over a low surface energy area.

Slot-die coating method, apparatus, and substrate

A manufacturing facility is provided for manufacturing a product on a foil (FO). The manufacturing facility comprises a deposition zone () formed by a clean room wherein at least a first and a second deposition facility () are arranged for depositing a layer of a material on the foil. The manufacturing facility further comprises at least one processing facility () for processing the deposited layer, said processing facility being arranged outside said deposition zone and comprising a processing trajectory with a first path () away from said deposition zone, towards a turning facility () and with a second path () from said turning facility back towards said deposition zone.

Manufacturing facility and method of manufacturing

A laminating apparatus () for laminating a substrate foil (SF) with a laminating foil (LF) comprises

Laminating device and laminating method

An electric transport component may include a substrate provided with a barrier structure with a first inorganic layer, an organic decoupling layer and a second inorganic layer, wherein the organic decoupling layer is sandwiched between the first and the second inorganic layer, and at least one electrically conductive structure distributed in a plane defined by the organic decoupling layer, and that is accommodated in at least one trench in the organic decoupling layer. A method of manufacturing an electric transport component may include the steps of providing a first inorganic layer, providing a first organic decoupling layer, forming at least one trench in the organic decoupling layer, depositing an electrically conductive material in the at least one trench, and providing a second inorganic layer. The component may be applied for example in opto-electrical and electro-optical devices.

Electric transport component, method of manufacturing the same, as well as electro-optical device and opto-electrical device

A method is described for providing a substrate foil (L) with at least a laminating foil (L) of material. The method comprises the steps of providing the substrate foil (L) and the laminating foil (L). And subsequently applying weakend portions () in the laminating foil (L). The weakened portions extend in a direction transverse (Dtr) to a longitudinal direction of the laminating foil, and are spaced at intervals along the longitudinal direction. The weakened portions have a width (w) substantially smaller than the length (&#x394;) of said intervals, providing a tension to the laminating foil (L) in the longitudinal direction (Dlong). Thereby the laminating foil (L) is stretched in the weakened portions, attaching the stretched laminating foil (L) to the substrate foil (L).

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Ike Gerke De Vries