Intermolecular, Inc.

Guardian Industries Corporation

Guardian Glass, LLC

Applied Materials, Inc.

Other

Tesla, Inc.

First Solar, Inc.

Solarcity Corporation

Zhi-Wen Sun

Guowen Ding

Minh Le

Tony P Chiang

Mohd Fadzli Anwar Hassan

Jinhong Tong

Chi-I Lang

Nitin Kumar

Guizhen Zhang

Minh Anh Nguyen

Bob Kong

Brent Boyce

Yu Wang

Muhammad Imran

Jingyu Lao

Nikhil D Kalyankar

Richard Blacker

Yiwei Lu

Yongli Xu

Jeremy Cheng

Daniel Schweigert

Hien Minh Huu Le

Igor C Ivanov

Jeroen Van Duren

Tong Ju

Phil Lingle

Sagar Vijay

Michael Xiaoxuan Yang

Dipankar Pramanik

Sandra Guy Malhotra

Khaled Ahmed

Hooman Hafezi

Alexander A Gorer

Haifan Liang

Jiunn Benjamin Heng

Anh Duong

Frank Greer

Zachary M Fresco

Sergey V Barabash

Amir Bayati

Sang M Lee

Sandeep Jaggi

Christoph Georg Erben

Liang Liang

Todd Alan Balisky

John O Dukovic

Aron Rosenfeld

Ollivier Jacky Lefevre

Kenneth Alfred Williams

George Mirth

Mark Lewis

Anbei Jiang

Minh Anh Anh Nguyen

Jihong Tong

Mohd Hassan

Donald A Cameron

Tuo-Chuan Huang

Minh Huu Le

Mohd Fadzil Anwar Hassan

Muhammed Imran

Treatments are provided to strengthen adhesion of an optical filter layer in a photovoltaic (PV) module to an encapsulant layer, or generally, between inorganic materials and organic polymers. The embodiments disclosed herein can provide five or more times the adhesive forces of untreated encapsulant-filter interfaces. As a result, the system can enhance long-term reliability of PV modules by reducing interface surface charges and dangling bonds and reducing gaps and cracks, thereby preventing moisture, impurities, and particles from entering the interface. The treated optical filter layer can result in a surface modification. In some embodiments, treating the optical filter layer includes applying a chemical treatment such as an acid or alkaline wash, and/or ultrasonic cleaning.

Method for improving adhesion between glass cover and encapsulant for solar roof tiles

A method for making low emissivity panels, including control the composition of a barrier layer formed on a thin conductive silver layer. The barrier structure can include a ternary alloy of nickel, titanium, and niobium, which showed improvements in overall performance than those from binary barrier results. The percentage of nickel can be between 5 and 15 wt %. The percentage of titanium can be between 30 and 50 wt %. The percentage of niobium can be between 40 and 60 wt %.

Titanium nickel niobium alloy barrier for low-emissivity coatings

Low emissivity panels can include a separation layer of ZnSnObetween multiple infrared reflective stacks. The low emissivity panels can also include NiNbTiOas barrier layer. The low emissivity panels have high light to solar gain, color neutral, together with similar observable color before and after a heat treatment process.

Method to generate high LSG low-emissivity coating with same color after heat treatment

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for forming low emissivity panels. A first dielectric layer is disposed over a substrate and includes a bi-metal oxide having tin and bismuth or niobium. A seed layer is disposed directly on the first dielectric layer. A reflective layer including silver is disposed directly on the seed layer. A barrier layer is disposed above the reflective layer. The barrier layer includes one of a nickel chromium titanium aluminum alloy or a nickel chromium titanium aluminum oxide. The nickel chromium titanium aluminum alloy or the nickel chromium titanium aluminum oxide includes between about 5% and about 10% by weight nickel, between about 25% and about 30% by weight chromium, between about 30% and about 35% by weight titanium, and between about 30% and about 35% by weight aluminum.

Low-emissivity glass including spacer layers compatible with heat treatment

Systems and methods for fabricating a photovoltaic structure are provided. During fabrication, a patterned mask is formed on a first surface of a multilayer body of the photovoltaic structure, with openings of the mask corresponding to grid line locations of a first grid. Subsequently, a core layer of the first grid is deposited in the openings of the patterned mask, and a protective layer is deposited on an exposed surface of the core layer. The patterned mask is then removed to expose the sidewalls of the core layer. Heat is applied to the protective layer such that the protective layer reflows to cover both the exposed surface and sidewalls of the core layer.

System and method for tin plating metal electrodes

A method for making low emissivity panels, including control the composition of a barrier layer formed on a thin conductive silver layer. The barrier structure can include an alloy of a first element having high oxygen affinity with a second element having low oxygen affinity. The first element can include Ta, Nb, Zr, Hf, Mn, Y, Si, and Ti, and the second element can include Ru, Ni, Co, Mo, and W, which can have low oxygen affinity property. The alloy barrier layer can reduce optical absorption in the visible range, can provide color-neutral product, and can improve adhesion to the silver layer.

Silver barrier materials for low-emissivity applications

Embodiments of the invention generally relate to methods and compositions for forming conformal coatings on textured substrates. More specifically, embodiments of the invention generally relate to sol-gel processes and sol-gel compositions for forming low refractive index conformal coatings on textured transparent substrates. In one embodiment a method of forming a conformal coating on a textured glass substrate is provided. The method comprises coating the textured glass substrate with a sol-gel composition comprising a solidifier. It is believed that use of the solidifier expedites the sol-gel transition point of the sol-gel composition leading to more conformal deposition of coatings on textured substrates.

Sol-gel transition control of coatings by addition of solidifiers for conformal coatings on textured glass

Embodiments provided herein describe methods for forming cadmium-manganese-telluride (CMT), such as for use in photovoltaic devices. A substrate including a material with a zinc blend crystalline structure is provided. CMT is formed above the substrate. During the formation of the CMT, cation-rich processing conditions are maintained. The resulting CMT may be more readily provided with p-type dopants when compared to conventionally-formed CMT.

Zinc blende cadmium&#x2014;manganese&#x2014;telluride with reduced hole compensation effects and methods for forming the same

Embodiments provided herein describe low-e panels and methods for forming low-e panels. A transparent substrate is provided. A reflective layer is formed above the transparent substrate. An over-coating layer is formed above the reflective layer. The over-coating layer includes first, second, and third sub-layers. The second sub-layer is between the first and third sub-layers, and the first and third sub-layers include the same material.

High solar gain low-e panel and method for forming the same

Coated articles are disclosed. The coated articles include a doped or alloyed silver layer sandwiched between two layers of transparent conductive oxide such as indium tin oxide (ITO). The doped silver or silver alloy layer can be thin, such as between 1. 5 to 20 nm and thus can be transparent. The doped silver or silver alloy can provide improved ductility property, allowing the conductive stack to be bendable. The transparent conductive oxide layers can also be thin, allowing the conductive stack can have improved ductility property.

Silver based conductive layer for flexible electronics

Low emissivity coated panels can be fabricated using a base layer having a low refractive index layer on a high refractive index layer. The low refractive index layer can have refractive index less than 1.5, and can include MgF, CaF, SiO, or BO. The high refractive index layer can have refractive index greater than 2.3, and can include TiO, NbO, or BiO. The multilayer base structure can allow color tuning with enhanced transmission, for example, as compared to similar structures having single layer base layer.

Base-layer consisting of two materials layer with extreme high/low index in low-e coating to improve the neutral color and transmittance performance

A bi-layer seed layer can exhibit good seed property for an infrared reflective layer, together with improved thermal stability. The bi-layer seed layer can include a thin zinc oxide layer having a desired crystallographic orientation for a silver infrared reflective layer disposed on a bottom layer having a desired thermal stability. The thermal stable layer can include aluminum, magnesium, or bismuth doped tin oxide (AlSnO, MgSnO, or BiSnO), which can have better thermal stability than zinc oxide but poorer lattice matching for serving as a seed layer template for silver (111).

Low-E glazing performance by seed structure optimization

Embodiments provided herein describe a low-e panel and a method for forming a low-e panel. A transparent substrate is provided. A metal oxide layer is formed over the transparent substrate. The metal oxide layer includes a first element, a second element, and a third element. A reflective layer is formed over the transparent substrate. The first element may include tin or zinc. The second element and the third element may each include tin, zinc, antimony, silicon, strontium, titanium, niobium, zirconium, magnesium, aluminum, yttrium, lanthanum, hafnium, or bismuth. The metal oxide layer may also include nitrogen.

Low-e panels with ternary metal oxide dielectric layer and method for forming the same

A transparent dielectric composition comprising tin, oxygen and one of aluminum or magnesium with preferably higher than 15% by weight of aluminum or magnesium offers improved thermal stability over tin oxide with respect to appearance and optical properties under high temperature processes. For example, upon a heat treatment at temperatures higher than 500 C, changes in color and index of refraction of the present transparent dielectric composition are noticeably less than those of tin oxide films of comparable thickness. The transparent dielectric composition can be used in high transmittance, low emissivity coated panels, providing thermal stability so that there are no significant changes in the coating optical and structural properties, such as visible transmission, IR reflectance, microscopic morphological properties, color appearance, and haze characteristics, of the as-coated and heated treated products.

Heat stable SnAl and SnMg based dielectrics

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