Patents Assigned to Corsam Technologies LLC
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Publication number: 20190112219Abstract: A compositional range of fusion-formable, high strain point sodium free, silicate, aluminosilicate and boroaluminosilicate glasses are described herein. The glasses can be used as substrates for photovoltaic devices, for example, thin film photovoltaic devices such as CIGS photovoltaic devices. These glasses can be characterized as having strain points?540° C., thermal expansion coefficient of from 6.5 to 10.5 ppm/° C., as well as liquidus viscosities in excess of 50,000 poise. As such they are ideally suited for being formed into sheet by the fusion process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: Corsam Technologies LLCInventors: Bruce Gardiner AITKEN, James Edward DICKINSON, JR., Timothy J. KICZENSKI, Michelle Diane PIERSON-STULL
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Patent number: 10173919Abstract: A compositional range of fusion-formable, high strain point sodium free, silicate, aluminosilicate and boroaluminosilicate glasses are described herein. The glasses can be used as substrates for photovoltaic devices, for example, thin film photovoltaic devices such as CIGS photovoltaic devices. These glasses can be characterized as having strain points ?540° C., thermal expansion coefficient of from 6.5 to 10.5 ppm/° C., as well as liquidus viscosities in excess of 50,000 poise. As such they are ideally suited for being formed into sheet by the fusion process.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Corsam Technologies LLCInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, James Edward Dickinson, Jr., Timothy J. Kiczenski, Michelle Diane Pierson-Stull
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Patent number: 9643883Abstract: A compositional range of high strain point and/or intermediate expansion coefficient alkali metal free aluminosilicate and boroaluminosilicate glasses are described herein. The glasses can be used as substrates or superstrates for photovoltaic devices, for example, thin film photovoltaic devices such as CdTe or CIGS photovoltaic devices or crystalline silicon wafer devices. These glasses can be characterized as having strain points ?600° C., thermal expansion coefficient of from 35 to 50×10?7/° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Corsam Technologies LLCInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, James Edward Dickinson, Timothy James Kiczenski, John Christopher Mauro, Adama Tandia
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Patent number: 9637408Abstract: Sodium-containing aluminosilicate and boroaluminosilicate glasses are described herein. The glasses can be used as substrates for photovoltaic devices, for example, thin film photovoltaic devices such as CIGS photovoltaic devices. These glasses can be characterized as having strain points ?540° C., thermal expansion coefficient of from 6.5 to 9.5 ppm/° C., as well as liquidus viscosities in excess of 50,000 poise. As such they are ideally suited for being formed into sheet by the fusion process.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2010Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Corsam Technologies LLCInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, James Edward Dickinson, Jr., Timothy J Kiczenski, Michelle Diane Pierson-Stull
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Patent number: 9530910Abstract: Sodium containing aluminosilicate and boroaluminosilicate glasses are described herein. The glasses can be used as substrates or superstrates for photovoltaic devices, for example, thin film photovoltaic devices such as CIGS photovoltaic devices. These glasses can be characterized as having strain points ?535° C., for example, ?570° C., thermal expansion coefficients of from 8 to 9 ppm/° C., as well as liquidus viscosities in excess of 50,000 poise. As such they are ideally suited for being formed into sheet by the fusion process.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: CORSAM Technologies LLCInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, James Edward Dickinson, Jr., Timothy J. Kiczenski
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Patent number: 9371247Abstract: A compositional range of fusion-formable, high strain point sodium free, silicate, aluminosilicate and boroaluminosilicate glasses are described herein. The glasses can be used as substrates for photovoltaic devices, for example, thin film photovoltaic devices such as CIGS photovoltaic devices. These glasses can be characterized as having strain points?540° C., thermal expansion coefficient of from 6.5 to 10.5 ppm/° C., as well as liquidus viscosities in excess of 50,000 poise. As such they are ideally suited for being formed into sheet by the fusion process.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Corsam Technologies LLCInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, James Edward Dickinson, Jr., Timothy J Kiczenski, Michelle Diane Pierson-Stull
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Patent number: 9266769Abstract: CTE-matched silicate glasses and more particularly to low-alkali CTE-matched silicate glasses that are useful in semiconductor-based applications, such as photovoltaics are described along with methods of making such glasses.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: CORSAM TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams
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Patent number: 8975199Abstract: A compositional range of high strain point and/or intermediate expansion coefficient alkali metal free aluminosilicate and boroaluminosilicate glasses are described herein. The glasses can be used as substrates or superstrates for photovoltaic devices, for example, thin film photovoltaic devices such as CdTe or CIGS photovoltaic devices or crystalline silicon wafer devices. These glasses can be characterized as having strain points?600° C., thermal expansion coefficient of from 35 to 50×10?7/° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Corsam Technologies LLCInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, James Edward Dickinson, Jr., Timothy James Kiczenski, John Christopher Mauro, Adama Tandia
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Publication number: 20140238481Abstract: Photovoltaic devices where glass substrates have a composition where (RO+M2O)/Z2O3 is greater than 1. This ratio may affect sodium out-flux from the glass substrate and into the CIGS layer or the Mo layer or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicants: CORNING INCORPORATED, CORSAM TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, James Edward Dickinson, JR., Adama Tandia, Kochuparambil Deenamma Vargheese
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Publication number: 20140150867Abstract: Sodium containing aluminosilicate and boroaluminosilicate glasses are described herein. The glasses can be used as substrates or superstrates for photovoltaic devices, for example, thin film photovoltaic devices such as CIGS photovoltaic devices. These glasses can be characterized as having strain points ?535° C., for example, ?570° C., thermal expansion coefficients of from 8 to 9 ppm/° C., as well as liquidus viscosities in excess of 50,000 poise. As such they are ideally suited for being formed into sheet by the fusion process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2014Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: Corsam Technologies LLCInventors: Bruce Gardiner AITKEN, James Edward Dickinson, JR., Timothy J. Kiczenski
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Patent number: 8663732Abstract: Light scattering inorganic substrates comprising monolayers and methods for making light scattering inorganic substrates comprising monolayers useful for, for example, photovoltaic cells are described herein. The method comprises providing an inorganic substrate comprising at least one surface, applying an adhesive to the at least one surface of the inorganic substrate, applying inorganic particles to the adhesive to form a coated substrate, and heating the coated substrate to form the light scattering inorganic substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Corsam Technologies LLCInventor: Glenn Eric Kohnke
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Patent number: 8647995Abstract: Sodium containing aluminosilicate and boroaluminosilicate glasses are described herein. The glasses can be used as substrates or superstrates for photovoltaic devices, for example, thin film photovoltaic devices such as CIGS photovoltaic devices. These glasses can be characterized as having strain points ?535° C., for example, ?570° C., thermal expansion coefficients of from 8 to 9 ppm/° C., as well as liquidus viscosities in excess of 50,000 poise. As such they are ideally suited for being formed into sheet by the fusion process.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Corsam Technologies LLCInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, James Edward Dickinson, Jr., Timothy J Kiczenski