Ferro Corporation

Todd K Williams

Aziz S Shaikh

Kevin W Allison

John H Alexander

David M Stotka

Kenneth H Magrini

Kristina McVicker

Mark A Wesselmann

Luis C Tolentino

The present invention provides a hot melt conductor paste composition that includes conductive particles and glass particles dispersed in a thermoplastic polymer system. The hot melt conductor paste composition according to the invention is a solid at room temperature, but melts at a temperature of from about 35&deg; C. to about 90&deg; C. to form a flowable liquid that can be applied to a silicon substrate by screen printing. The hot melt conductor paste composition is particularly suitable for use in the fabrication of photovoltaic cells.

Hot melt conductor paste composition

The present invention provides a unique method of making a barrier rib structure for a plasma display panel. Instead of employing the traditional screen printing method of making barrier ribs, the present invention employs a section of low temperature cofired ceramic dielectric. The unique method includes the steps of providing a fusible dielectric composition in an organic binder, applying the composition on a glass sheet, applying a photoresist composition, placing a mask over the coated plate to provide a pattern of openings in the photoresist corresponding to the pattern of the picture subcells, using a laser to remove the portions of the coating not covered by the photoresist to form the color subcells and heating the resulting assembly to a sintering temperature to fuse the dielectric composition to form the barrier rib structure and to fuse the barrier rib structure to the glass plate.

Method of making plasma display panels

The present invention provides a thermally conductive material which can be used as a heat sink in a multi-chip module or multilayer circuit structure. The material is formed by firing a composition including a solids portion comprising from about 1% to about 30% by weight glass and from about 70% to about 98% by weight silver. The glass comprises in weight percent from about 5% to about 60% B.sub.2 O.sub.3, from about 30% to about 90% SiO.sub.2, up to 10% Li.sub.2 O, up to 10% Na.sub.2 O, up to 10% K.sub.2 O and up to 10% Al.sub.2 O.sub.3. The material may be formed using a second glass selected from the group comprising of (i) a glass comprising in weight percent from about 10% to about 60% CaO, from about 5% to about 55% B.sub.2 O.sub.3 and from about 5% to about 55% SiO.sub.2 ; and (ii) a glass comprising in weight percent from about 35% to about 70% SiO.sub.2, from about 20% to about 45% Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, from about 0% to about 8% BaO and from about 5% to about 30% MgO.

Conductive silver low temperature cofired metallic green tape

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Todd K Williams