Abstract: A method for simultaneously tempering and coating glass, including heating a glass substrate, depositing a textured buffer layer on the glass substrate, depositing a material on the buffer layer, depositing O2, and rapidly cooling the glass substrate by introducing a gas. This includes coating the glass substrate with crystalline sapphire or a low E film, for example.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing ceramic glass, including sapphire glass, for use in display covers in smartphones, computers, and watches, as well as for use as substrates on which semiconductor films can be deposited for a wide range of electronic applications, including solar cells, LEDs, and FETs.

Abstract: A method for annealing thin-films of ceramics such as Al2O3 on glass by laser such that the underlying glass substrate is unaffected by the laser heating. This is accomplished by applying a thin MgO buffer layer to the glass, depositing an amorphous ceramic layer on the textured transparent buffer layer, and annealing the ceramic layer with a heated line source. The ceramic layer crystallizing forming a ceramic coated substrate. The buffer layer is also textured which serves to induce texture in the Al2O3 film deposited on the buffer layer. The induced texture on the Al2O3 provides advantageous properties. The ceramic glass can be used for a variety of applications such as covers to solar panels, CICs used in satellites, displays, automobile windows, and substrates for LEDs.

Abstract: A method for making ceramic glass that is textured, hard, transparent and conducting, for use in various electronic devices and displays, such as LEDs, solar cells, the covers of solar panels, CICs used in satellites, smartphones, and computer displays. The ceramic glass can also be used for window shields in automobiles, and in any other industries where anti-scratch glass is beneficial. The ceramic glass is composed of ultra-thin layers which reduces the cost of manufacturing, and provides advantageous properties such as smoothness for stringent electronic device fabrication requirements.

Abstract: Highly textured [111] oriented films such as MgO crystalline films are deposited by e-beam evaporation on ordinary soda-lime glass. Semiconductor films such as silicon can be deposited on these MgO films using eutectics at temperatures below the softening point of ordinary glass and having extremely high textured and strong [111] orientation. The invention may be used for efficient and cost effective solar cells, displays, etc.