Apple Inc.

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland Gmbh

Nanosolar, Inc.

Hydro Aluminium Deutchland Gmbh

Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products Gmbh

Wolf Oetting

Naoto Matsuyuki

Andreas Siemen

Volker Denkmann

Marcelo M Lamego

David I Nazzaro

Trevor J Ness

Martin Melcher

Chin San Han

Jiahui Liang

Willi Schenkel

Anirban Das

Jungyup Kim

Srinivasan Varadharajan

Feng Quan Liu

Matthew S Rogers

Manish Mittal

Christian Simon

Ulrich Hampel

Wilhelm Schenkel

Merete Hallenstvet

Axel Blecher

Boris Kasper

Bente Gilbu Tilset

Anica Lacau

Kenji Ishizeki

Christian Rohne Simon

An electronic device includes electrical components in a housing. The components may include optical components such as a display. Protective structures may be used to protect the optical components. The protective structures may include one or more protective transparent layers such as layers of glass or crystalline material such as sapphire. The protective transparent layers may be coated with an oleophobic coating. To enhance coating durability, catalyst may be used to help bond the oleophobic coating. An adhesion promotion layer such as a silicon oxide layer may be deposited on the transparent protective layer. A catalyst layer such as a layer of sodium fluoride may be deposited on the adhesion promotion layer. The oleophobic material may be evaporated or otherwise deposited on the catalyst layer. Heat and moisture may help the oleophobic material form chemical bonds with the adhesion promotion layer, thereby forming a durable oleophobic coating.

Oleophobic coatings for glass structures in electronic devices

An electronic device can include a housing component that can define an interior surface and an exterior surface of the device, a metallic film deposited on the interior surface and extending at least partially onto the exterior surface, and a ceramic film deposited on the exterior surface and at least partially over a portion of the metallic film on the exterior surface. The ceramic film can be in electrical communication with a portion of the metallic film deposited on the interior surface to form an electrical pathway from the exterior surface to the interior surface.

Conductive PVD stack-up design to improve reliability of deposited electrodes

The invention relates to a method for producing an aluminum strip, in which the aluminum strip is coated with a sorption layer which has a binder and a sorbent. The object to propose a method for producing an aluminum strip coated with a sorption layer, by means of which an aluminum strip can be coated cost-effectively having constant performance characteristics with respect to the sorption of, for example, water vapor, is achieved according to the invention by means of a method for producing an aluminum strip coated with a sorption layer by applying a suspension to the aluminum strip in the coil-coating process, which in addition to a liquid comprises at least one binder, formed as a solid, and a sorbent, and by subjecting the aluminum strip, together with the applied suspension, to a drying process, in which the binder is activated.

Sorbent-coated aluminium strip

An electronic device includes one or more light emitters for emitting light toward an object and one or more light detectors for collecting light exiting the object. A reflective coating, surface, or surface finish can be applied adjacent to the area to which light is emitted and/or through which light exits in order to increase the light collected by the light detector. The reflective coating can be oriented so as to reflect light back into the object.

Reflective surface treatments for optical sensors

A method for producing a strip consisting of aluminum or an aluminum alloy for packaging purposes, in particular for cans, can lids or can closures, which provides an individualized aluminum strip for packaging purposes, with which decorative or identification elements can be reliably embossed without additional production steps being required, for example at the producer of the packaging means, is achieved in that decorative or other identification elements are embossed into the strip in the last rolling pass of cold rolling and in that the strip thickness is greater in the area of the decorative and identification elements than in the remaining areas of the strip.

Method for producing a strip for packaging purposes

A method for the production of an absorber plate for solar collectors from a strip of metal, in particular of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, includes coating the strip using a coil coating process with a highly selective coating, which has very good absorptive properties for sunlight and ensures very little heat emission.

Method for the production of an absorber plate for solar collectors

Methods and devices for high-throughput manufacturing of a solar cell with a diode is provided.

Methods and devices for ultra smooth substrate for use in thin film solar cell manufacturing

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