Applied Materials, Inc.

Antec Solar Gmbh

Manuel Diequez Campo

Michael Wayne Stowell, Jr

Dieter Bonnet

Rainer Gegenwart

Jutta Beier

The invention includes the structure of a multilayer protective coating, which may have, among other properties, scratch resistance, UV absorption, and an effective refractive index matched to a polymer substrate such as polycarbonate. Each layer may contain multiple components consisting of organic and inorganic materials. The multilayer protective coating includes interleaved organic layers and inorganic layers. The organic layers may have 20% or more organic compounds such as SiOCH. The inorganic layers may have 80% or more inorganic materials, such as SiO, SiON, and ZnO, or mixtures thereof. Each layer of the multilayer protective coating is a micro layer and may have a thickness of 5 angstroms or less in various embodiments. The multilayer protective coating may contain in the order of hundreds or thousands of micro layers, depending upon the design requirement of applications. In each micro layer, the components may have substantially continuous variations in concentration.

Index modified coating on polymer substrate

Recycling process for CdTe/CdS thin film-solar cell modules in which the modules are mechanically disintegrated into module fragments, the module fragments are exposed to an oxygen-containing atmosphere at a temperature of at least 300&deg; C. causing a pyrolysis of adhesive material contained in the module fragments in form of a hydrocarbon based plastics material and the gaseous decomposition products that are generated during the pyrolysis are discharged, and, afterwards, the module fragments freed from the adhesive means are exposed to a chlorine-containing gas atmosphere at a temperature of more than 400&deg; C. causing an etching process wherein the CdCl and TeCl that are generated in the etching process are made to condense and precipitate by cooling.

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Hanau, Germany

Manuel Diequez Campo