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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2005
Applicants:
Erten Eser, Newark, DE (US);
Shannon Fields, Wilmington, DE (US);
Inventors:
Erten Eser, Newark, DE (US);
Shannon Fields, Wilmington, DE (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/00 (2006.01); C23C 16/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A process and composition for preventing cracking in composite structures comprising a metal coated substrate and a selenide, sulfide or mixed selenide sulfide film. Specifically, cracking is prevented in the coating of molybdenum coated substrates upon which a copper, indium-gallium diselenide (CIGS) film is deposited. Cracking is inhibited by adding a Se passivating amount of oxygen to the Mo and limiting the amount of Se deposited on the Mo coating.