Patents by Inventor Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria Van Hest
Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria Van Hest has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11737292Abstract: Systems and methods for organic semiconductor devices with sputtered contact layers are provided. In one embodiment, an organic semiconductor device comprises: a first contact layer comprising a first sputter-deposited transparent conducting oxide; an electron transport layer interfacing with the first contact layer; a second contact layer comprising a second sputter-deposited transparent conducting oxide; a hole transport layer interfacing with the second contact layer; and an organic semiconductor active layer having a first side facing the electron transport layer and an opposing second side facing the hole transport layer; wherein either the electron transport layer or the hole transport layer comprises a buffering transport layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: SolarWindow Technologies, Inc., Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Scott R. Hammond, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest
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Publication number: 20230262997Abstract: Visually undistorted thin film electronic devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method for producing a thin-film electronic device comprises: opening a scribe in a stack of thin film material layers deposited on a substrate to define an active region and an inactive region of the thin-film electronic device, the stack comprising at least one active semiconductor layer. The active region comprises a non-scribed area of the stack and the inactive region comprises a region of the stack where thin film material was removed by the scribe. The method further comprises depositing at least one scribe fill material into a gap opened by the scribe. The scribe fill material has embedded therein one or more coloring elements that alter an optical characteristics spectrum of the inactive region to obtain an optical characteristics spectrum of the active region within a minimum perceptible difference for an industry defined standard observer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Scott R. Hammond, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, John A. Conklin
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Patent number: 11575096Abstract: Visually undistorted thin film electronic devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method for producing a thin-film electronic device comprises: opening a scribe in a stack of thin film material layers deposited on a substrate to define an active region and an inactive region of the thin-film electronic device, the stack comprising at least one active semiconductor layer. The active region comprises a non-scribed area of the stack and the inactive region comprises a region of the stack where thin film material was removed by the scribe. The method further comprises depositing at least one scribe fill material into a gap opened by the scribe. The scribe fill material has embedded therein one or more coloring elements that alter an optical characteristics spectrum of the inactive region to obtain an optical characteristics spectrum of the active region within a minimum perceptible difference for an industry defined standard observer.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignees: SolarWindow Technologies, Inc., Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Scott R. Hammond, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, John A. Conklin
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Patent number: 11390533Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a perovskite crystal, where the perovskite crystal is in the form of a powder, and the perovskite crystal is semiconducting and photovoltaically active.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignees: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body CorporateInventors: Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, David Todd Moore, Benjia Dou
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Patent number: 11339058Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mixture that includes a perovskite precursor, a solvent, and an additive that includes at least one of a first amine, a ketone, an aldehyde, a non-nucleophilic sterically hindered base, and/or a halogen-containing compound, where, upon removal of the solvent and the additive, the perovskite precursor is capable of being transformed into a perovskite.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: James Bacon Whitaker, Kai Zhu, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest
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Publication number: 20220158105Abstract: Visually undistorted thin film electronic devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method for producing a thin-film electronic device comprises: opening a scribe in a stack of thin film material layers deposited on a substrate to define an active region and an inactive region of the thin-film electronic device, the stack comprising at least one active semiconductor layer. The active region comprises a non-scribed area of the stack and the inactive region comprises a region of the stack where thin film material was removed by the scribe. The method further comprises depositing at least one scribe fill material into a gap opened by the scribe. The scribe fill material has embedded therein one or more coloring elements that alter an optical characteristics spectrum of the inactive region to obtain an optical characteristics spectrum of the active region within a minimum perceptible difference for an industry defined standard observer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Scott R. Hammond, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, John A. Conklin
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Patent number: 11271180Abstract: Visually undistorted thin film electronic devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method for producing a thin-film electronic device comprises: opening a scribe in a stack of thin film material layers deposited on a substrate to define an active region and an inactive region of the thin-film electronic device, the stack comprising at least one active semiconductor layer. The active region comprises a non-scribed area of the stack and the inactive region comprises a region of the stack where thin film material was removed by the scribe. The method further comprises depositing at least one scribe fill material into a gap opened by the scribe. The scribe fill material has embedded therein one or more coloring elements that alter an optical characteristics spectrum of the inactive region to obtain an optical characteristics spectrum of the active region within a minimum perceptible difference for an industry defined standard observer.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, SolarWindow Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Scott R. Hammond, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, John A. Conklin
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Patent number: 11145466Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method that includes positioning a stack that includes at least one of the following layers between a first surface and a second surface: a first perovskite layer and/or a second perovskite layer; and treating the stack for a period of time by at least one of heating the stack or pressurizing the stack, where a device that includes the first surface and the second surface provides the heating and the pressurizing of the stack.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, Joseph Jonathan Berry, Sean Phillip Dunfield
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Publication number: 20210083215Abstract: Systems and methods for organic semiconductor devices with sputtered contact layers are provided. In one embodiment, an organic semiconductor device comprises: a first contact layer comprising a first sputter-deposited transparent conducting oxide; an electron transport layer interfacing with the first contact layer; a second contact layer comprising a second sputter-deposited transparent conducting oxide; a hole transport layer interfacing with the second contact layer; and an organic semiconductor active layer having a first side facing the electron transport layer and an opposing second side facing the hole transport layer; wherein either the electron transport layer or the hole transport layer comprises a buffering transport layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicants: SolarWindow Technologies, Inc., Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Scott R. Hammond, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest
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Patent number: 10879479Abstract: Systems and methods for organic semiconductor devices with sputtered contact layers are provided. In one embodiment, an organic semiconductor device comprises: a first contact layer (140) comprising a first sputter-deposited transparent conducting oxide; an electron transport layer (130) interfacing with the first contact layer; a second contact layer (110) comprising a second sputter-deposited transparent conducting oxide; a hole transport layer interfacing with the second contact layer; and an organic semiconductor active layer (120) having a first side facing the electron transport layer and an opposing second side facing the hole transport layer; wherein either the electron transport layer or the hole transport layer comprises a buffering transport layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignees: SolarWindow Technologies, Inc., Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Scott R. Hammond, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest
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Publication number: 20200294728Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a perovskite-containing solar cell module that includes a glass substrate; a first cell; and a second cell, where each cell includes, in order, a first contact layer that includes fluorine-doped tin oxide, positioned on the substrate, and having an outside surface and a first thickness; an electron transfer layer that includes TiO2 and having a second thickness between 1 nm and 10 ?m; an active layer that includes the perovskite and having a third thickness; a hole transfer layer that includes spiro-OMeTAD and having a fourth thickness; and a second contact layer that includes copper and having a fifth thickness. In addition, the first cell and the second cell are electrically connected by a first gap filled with the copper, and the first gap passes through the third thickness, the fourth thickness, and substantially through the second thickness to terminate at the outside surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2018Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Kai ZHU, Mengjin YANG, Talysa Renae KLEIN, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van HEST, Zhen LI
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Patent number: 10734165Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosures is a method that includes applying a perovskite precursor solution to a first solid conductor and treating the perovskite precursor solution such that a first portion of the perovskite precursor solution is converted to a first solid perovskite, where the first solid conductor comprises a first charge transport characteristic, which is predominantly p-type or predominantly n-type, and the treating results in the first solid perovskite having a second charge transport characteristic that is substantially the same as the first charge transport characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Kai Zhu, Joseph Jonathan Berry, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, Joseph Matthew Luther, Adewole Philip Schulz, Arrelaine Allen Dameron
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Publication number: 20200189926Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a perovskite crystal, where the perovskite crystal is in the form of a powder, and the perovskite crystal is semiconducting and photovoltaically active.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van HEST, David Todd MOORE, Benjia DOU
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Publication number: 20200189927Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mixture that includes a perovskite precursor, a solvent, and an additive that includes at least one of a first amine, a ketone, an aldehyde, a non-nucleophilic sterically hindered base, and/or a halogen-containing compound, where, upon removal of the solvent and the additive, the perovskite precursor is capable of being transformed into a perovskite.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: James Bacon WHITAKER, Kai ZHU, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van HEST
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Publication number: 20200028104Abstract: Visually undistorted thin film electronic devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method for producing a thin-film electronic device comprises: opening a scribe in a stack of thin film material layers deposited on a substrate to define an active region and an inactive region of the thin-film electronic device, the stack comprising at least one active semiconductor layer. The active region comprises a non-scribed area of the stack and the inactive region comprises a region of the stack where thin film material was removed by the scribe. The method further comprises depositing at least one scribe fill material into a gap opened by the scribe. The scribe fill material has embedded therein one or more coloring elements that alter an optical characteristics spectrum of the inactive region to obtain an optical characteristics spectrum of the active region within a minimum perceptible difference for an industry defined standard observer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicants: SolarWindow Technologies, Inc., Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Scott R. Hammond, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, John A. Conklin
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Publication number: 20190279825Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method that includes positioning a stack that includes at least one of the following layers between a first surface and a second surface: a first perovskite layer and/or a second perovskite layer; and treating the stack for a period of time by at least one of heating the stack or pressurizing the stack, where a device that includes the first surface and the second surface provides the heating and the pressurizing of the stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, Joseph Jonathan Berry, Sean Phillip Dunfield
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Publication number: 20190103570Abstract: Systems and methods for organic semiconductor devices with sputtered contact layers are provided. In one embodiment, an organic semiconductor device comprises: a first contact layer (140) comprising a first sputter-deposited transparent conducting oxide; an electron transport layer (130) interfacing with the first contact layer; a second contact layer (110) comprising a second sputter-deposited transparent conducting oxide; a hole transport layer interfacing with the second contact layer; and an organic semiconductor active layer (120) having a first side facing the electron transport layer and an opposing second side facing the hole transport layer; wherein either the electron transport layer or the hole transport layer comprises a buffering transport layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2017Publication date: April 4, 2019Applicants: SolarWindow Technologies, Inc., Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Scott R. Hammond, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest
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Publication number: 20180337293Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device that includes, in order, a metal layer that includes aluminum, a first layer that includes a titanium oxide, a second layer that includes zinc oxide, and an absorber layer that includes indene-C60 bisadduct:poly(3-hexylthiophene) (ICBA:P3HT), where the metal layer has a thickness between one micrometer and 30 ?m, and the metal layer has a roughness greater than 10 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: David Charles Bobela, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, Scott Alan Mauger, James Bacon Whitaker
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Publication number: 20180269005Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosures is a method that includes applying a perovskite precursor solution to a first solid conductor and treating the perovskite precursor solution such that a first portion of the perovskite precursor solution is converted to a first solid perovskite, where the first solid conductor comprises a first charge transport characteristic, which is predominantly p-type or predominantly n-type, and the treating results in the first solid perovskite having a second charge transport characteristic that is substantially the same as the first charge transport characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Kai Zhu, Joseph Jonathan Berry, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, Joseph Matthew Luther, Adewole Philip Schulz, Arrelaine Allen Dameron
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Publication number: 20180138337Abstract: Transparent and conductive adhesive (TCA) materials that may be incorporated into various devices are provided. According to an aspect of the invention, a device includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer including a TCA material. The third layer is arranged between the first layer and the second layer, and is configured to provide electrical conductivity between the first layer and the second layer. The TCA material includes conductive elements dispersed within a transparent adhesive, and the conductive elements are deformable.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Adele Clare Tamboli, Benjamin Guocian Lee, Pauls Stradins, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, Talysa Renae Klein