Abstract: A method of assembling an electronic device includes providing a transparent conductive polymer layer coated over a first support followed by pattern-wise forming a transparent mask with at least one opening over the conductive polymer. The masked conductive polymer is subjected to treatment through the opening that changes conductivity of the conductive polymer by at least one order of magnitude in areas not covered by the mask to form a first electronic component. The first electronic component having the mask is secured to a second electronic component, thereby forming the electronic device.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes an article and a method of forming a microstructure. The method includes providing a substrate having a structured surface region comprising one or more recessed features with recessed surfaces. The structured surface region is substantially free of plateaus. The method includes disposing a fluid composition comprising a functional material and a liquid onto the structured surface region. The method includes evaporating liquid from the fluid composition. The functional material collects on the recessed surfaces such that a remainder of the structured surface region is substantially free of the functional material.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a touch panel and a method for manufacturing the same, the touch panel including: a transparent substrate; a photosensitive ink layer patterned on the transparent substrate and having electric conductivity; and electrode patterns formed at corresponding positions on the patterned photosensitive ink layer, and the method including: preparing a transparent substrate; coating a photosensitive ink having electric conductivity on the transparent substrate to form a photosensitive ink layer; patterning the photosensitive ink layer; and forming electrode patterns on the patterned photosensitive ink layer.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for a display device with at least one transparent antenna. In one aspect, the transparent antenna is formed on a surface of a transparent substrate and may be electrically reinforced with one or more electrically conductive traces. The transparent antenna can avoid substantial interference with images produced by the display device.

Abstract: Methods of patterning films that enable visual identification of patterned films and the patterned regions on them, while still achieving minimally discernible optical differences between the patterned and unpatterned regions in devices incorporating the patterned films. Such methods can exhibit wide successful manufacturing operating windows and the patterned films are useful in electronic applications.

Abstract: Embodiments provided herein describe electrochromic devices and methods for forming electrochromic devices. The electrochromic devices include a transparent substrate, a transparent conducting oxide layer coupled to the transparent substrate, and a layer of electrochromic material coupled to the transparent conducting oxide layer. The transparent conducting oxide layer includes indium and zinc.

Abstract: A transparent conductive electrode stack containing a work function adjusted zinc oxide is provided. Specifically, the transparent conductive electrode stack includes a layer of zinc oxide and a layer of a work function modifying material. The presence of the work function modifying material in the transparent conductive electrode stack shifts the work function of the layer of zinc oxide to a higher value for better hole injection into the OLED device as compared to a transparent conductive electrode that includes only a layer of zinc oxide and no work function modifying material.

Abstract: Transparent articles for use as outer surfaces of electronic devices and methods therefor are disclosed. A transparent cover can be provided over a display of portable electronic device to provide a protective outer cover over the display. The transparent cover can include material to mark, mask or color a portion of the transparent cover, such portion thereupon becoming opaque. The material can be provided in a recessed portion of an inner surface of the transparent cover, such portion being a portion of the transparent cover that is not over a usable portion of the display. The electronic device can, for example, be a portable electronic device.

Abstract: A method of forming patterns on transparent substrates using a pulsed laser is disclosed. Various embodiments include an ultrashort pulsed laser, a substrate that is transparent to the laser wavelength, and a target plate. The laser beam is guided through the transparent substrate and focused on the target surface. The target material is ablated by the laser and is deposited on the opposite substrate surface. A pattern, for example a gray scale image, is formed by scanning the laser beam relative to the target. Variations of the laser beam scan speed and scan line density control the material deposition and change the optical properties of the deposited patterns, creating a visual effect of gray scale. In some embodiments patterns may be formed on a portion of a microelectronic device during a fabrication process. In some embodiments high repetition rate picoseconds and nanosecond sources are configured to produce the patterns.

Abstract: A sealing method is applicable to a cell matrix equipped with a plurality of cells spatially divided by a partition for sealing dispersion liquid containing hydrophobic dispersion medium and electrophoretic particles dispersed therein in the cells. The sealing method includes: supplying the dispersion liquid in the cells through an opening section of a space defined by the partition; and forming a sealing layer at an exposed portion of the dispersion liquid in the opening section, using a polymer reaction at an interface with water.

Abstract: A substrate with a transparent conductive layer includes a transparent supporting substrate, a thermosetting resin layer containing 50% by weight or more of a melamine resin, and a carbon nanotube conductive layer in this order, wherein a value of linearity of resistance of the carbon nanotube conductive layer is 1.5% or less.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of manufacturing a transparent conductive film containing carbon nanotubes and a binder, in which the carbon nanotubes are subjected to acid treatment, dispersion in a solvent, mixing with the binder, and application on the substrate, and to a transparent conductive film manufactured thereby. The method includes subjecting carbon nanotubes having an outer diameter of less than 15 nm to acid treatment to thus purify and surface functionalize them, followed by dispersing the treated carbon nanotubes in a solvent along with the binder, or mixing a carbon nanotube solution using a polar or nonpolar solvent with a binder solution, and applying the mixture on the substrate.

Abstract: A transparent component comprises a substrate (1) having an interface surface, with a pattern of electrically conductive copper (2) disposed on the interface surface with of the substrate, wherein the copper has a copper sulfide surface coating (3). It is found that copper with a suitably thin coating layer of copper sulfide has reduced visibility compared with uncoated copper, so that the metal pattern is less distracting to a viewer. The component finds application as part of a touch-sensitive display, with the substrate overlying or forming part of the display, with images on the display being visible to a user through the transparent component.

Abstract: An infrared energy oxidizing and/or curing process includes an infrared oxidation zone having an infrared energy source operable to emit infrared energy that oxidizes a conductive thin film deposited or established on a glass substrate to establish a light transmissive or transparent conductive thin film for manufacturing of a touch panel. Optionally, the infrared energy curing process provides an in-line infrared energy curing process that oxidizes the conductive thin film on the glass substrate as the glass substrate is moved past the infrared energy source. Optionally, the infrared energy curing process bonds a thick film silver frit electrode pattern to the conductively coated glass substrate. Optionally, the infrared energy curing process reduces the transparent conductive thin film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heating element in which distortion of a view due to local heating around a heating line does not occur even when a heating value is high, and a method for manufacturing the same. More specifically, the heating element according to the present invention comprises a transparent substrate and conductive heating lines provided on the transparent substrate, in which a line width of the conductive heating line is 10 ?m or less and a distance between the conductive heating lines is 500 ?m or less.

Abstract: A transparent conductive electrode comprising metal nanowires and method of making is described, wherein the transparent conductive electrode has a pencil hardness more than 1H, nanoporous surface having pore sizes less than 25 nm and surface roughness less than 50 nm. The transparent conductive electrode further comprises an index matching layer, having a refractive index between 1.1-1.5 and a thickness between 100-200 nm.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hybrid conductive composite made from carbon nanotubes and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(styrene-sulfonate) to reduce the surface resistivity of a transparent thermoplastic substrate. The inventive composites, which may find use in capacitive touch screen displays, require no special treatment or precautions, and are not limited by minimum or maximum component ratios. A wide variation the amounts of carbon nanotube and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(styrene-sulfonate) allows a minimization of the adverse carbon nanotube effects on the composite transparency while producing a stable, low sheet resistance material.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, a color filter (CF) substrate, and a method of manufacturing the CF substrate are proposed. The method includes forming a black matrix pattern on an invalid pixel domain on a transparent substrate for forming an alignment mark, coating a transparent conducting layer on the invalid pixel domain for covering the alignment mark, and patterning the transparent conducting layer so that the alignment mark and the peripheral domain of the alignment mark could have a different feature of coverage. The alignment mark and the peripheral domain of the alignment mark show optics differences obviously through a CCD (charge-coupled device) optical reading lens, which increases the success ratio of reading the alignment mark and improves manufacturing efficiency.

Abstract: A method for making an electrowetting device includes: (a) forming a surrounding wall on an upper surface of a substrate to surround a microchamber, the surrounding wall having an inner surface surrounding the microchamber and a top surface above the inner surface, the upper surface of the substrate being non-hydrophobic; (b) coating the surrounding wall and the upper surface of the substrate with a hydrophobic coating material; (c) removing a portion of the hydrophobic coating material formed on the top surface of the surrounding wall, thereby exposing the top surface of the surrounding wall; and (d) disposing a liquid into the microchamber.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a touch sensor and a method of manufacturing the same, the touch sensor including: a transparent substrate; a shielding film formed on one surface of the transparent substrate; a resin layer formed above the transparent substrate and one surface of the shielding film; and an electrode buried in one surface of the resin layer.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for transparent conductive vias in a transparent substrate. In one aspect, a transparent conductive via extends through a transparent substrate and electrically connects a topside conductor on a top surface of the transparent substrate and a bottom side conductor on a bottom surface of the transparent substrate. In another aspect, a transparent conductive via extends at least partially through a transparent substrate and is in electrical communication with a topside conductor on a top surface of the transparent substrate. In another aspect, a method of forming a transparent through-substrate via is provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the non-electrolytic deposition of a compound, preferably an electrochromic compound, comprising the following successive steps: (a) an electroconductive layer is deposited on a non-conductive solid substrate; (b) a reducing agent or an oxidizing agent (=redox agent) is deposited on an area of said electroconductive layer, said area covering only a portion of the surface of said electroconductive layer; and (c) a solution of a precursor of the compound to be deposited is brought into contact both with the redox agent and with at least a portion of the area of said electroconductive layer not covered by the redox agent, said precursor being chosen from those having an oxidation-reduction potential higher or lower than the redox agent and forming, after an oxidation-reduction reaction, a compound insoluble in the solution of the precursor of the compound to be deposited.

Abstract: A transparent flexible film and a method of manufacturing thereof. An inorganic layer is formed by coating ionized metal compound on a surface of a transparent substrate film and naturally cured so as to react with moisture in the air. Accordingly, the transparent flexible film for solar cell has low permeability rate of water and oxygen.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a touch screen having a bacteria inhibition layer for prohibiting bacteria from growing thereon and a method for manufacturing the same comprising uniformly dispersing particles of nano metal material in a solution to be applied to a surface treatment so that the solution can have a concentration of 20 ppm to 500 ppm; evenly spray coating the solution on a screen of the touch screen; and subjecting the solution coated on the screen of the touch screen to a heat treatment until solvent in the solution is completely evaporated so that the particles of the nano metal material are densely adhered to the screen of the touch screen to form a bacteria inhibition layer thereon.

Abstract: A method of making a transparent touch-responsive capacitor apparatus includes providing a transparent conductor precursor structure including a transparent substrate, a first precursor material layer formed over the transparent substrate and a second precursor material layer formed on the first precursor material layer; forming a electrically connected first micro-wires in the first and second precursor material layers; forming electrically connected second micro-wires in a precursor material layer electrically connected to the first micro-wires; and wherein the height of at least a portion of the first micro-wires is greater than the height of at least a portion of the second micro-wires, and wherein the total area occupied by the first micro-wires is less than 15% of the first transparent conductor area and the total area occupied by the second micro-wires is less than 15% of the second transparent conductor area.

Abstract: A thermosetting composition for forming a protective film of a transparent conductive film is described, containing: a polyester amide acid obtained from a reaction of a mixture containing a tetracarboxylic dianhydride, a diamine and a polyhydric hydroxy compound as a first component, an epoxy resin as a second component, an epoxy curing agent as a third component, and a solvent as a fourth component.

Abstract: A substrate having a transparent conductive layer has a transparent conductive pattern that is not easily visually recognizable by a naked human eye on a transparent substrate and can be formed by a simple and efficient method. In the case where a transparent conductive pattern is formed on a transparent substrate, the pattern region does not include conductive regions covered with uniform transparent conductive films or a high-resistance region that is not covered with the transparent conductive film, the high-resistance region electrically insulating the conductive regions. Instead of the conductive regions or the high-resistance region, the inventors use a region having a structure including a mixture of a portion covered with the transparent conductive film and a portion not covered with the transparent conductive film, thereby solving the foregoing visual recognition issue.

Abstract: Embodiments provided herein describe electrochromic devices and methods for forming electrochromic devices. The electrochromic devices include a transparent substrate, a transparent conducting oxide layer coupled to the transparent substrate, and a layer of electrochromic material coupled to the transparent conducting oxide layer. The transparent conducting oxide layer includes indium and zinc.

Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent pane with a transparent heatable coating, which extends at least over a part of the pane surface, in particular over its visual field. The heatable coating is divided by at least one heatable coating-free zone into at least one first heatable coating zone and a second heatable coating zone, wherein the two heatable coating zones are in each case electrically connected to at least two collecting conductors such that after application of a supply voltage that is provided by a voltage source, in each case a current flows over at least one first heating field formed by the first heatable coating zone and at least one second heating field formed by the second heatable coating zone. At least one heating element is disposed in the heatable coating-free zone, which heating element has an ohmic resistance such that by means of application of the supply voltage to the heating element, the pane is heatable in a surface area containing the heatable coating-free zone.

Abstract: A complimentary polymer or “dual-polymer” electrochromic device and methods of preparing the same are provided.

Abstract: A method of making a thin film is disclosed. A solution is dispensed on a substrate. The solution is spread into a thin layer with a hydrophilic material. The substrate or the hydrophilic material is moved relative to the other. In one embodiment, a thin film grows on the substrate by chemical reaction with the solution. In an alternative embodiment, the solution is evaporated, leaving behind a particulate film.

Abstract: There are provided a transparent panel and a method of manufacturing the same. The transparent panel includes: a transparent substrate; a conductive polymer layer formed over the entirety of a surface of the transparent substrate; and a refractive index matching layer formed in at least some regions of the conductive polymer layer, wherein the at least some regions in which the refractive index matching layer is formed correspond to regions in which electrical conductivity is inactivated in the conductive polymer layer. According to the present invention, the conductive polymer layer is formed on at least one surface of the transparent substrate and the electrical conductivity is inactivated in at least some regions of the conductive polymer layer to form sensing electrodes having a predetermined pattern, and the refractive index matching layer is formed in the at least some regions in which the electrical conductivity is inactivated.

Abstract: Disclosed is a transparent electrode including a transparent substrate having thereon a conductive fiber, a conductive polymer and a water soluble binder resin, wherein a content of the water soluble binder resin is in the range of 1 to 200 weight % based on a weight of the conductive polymer.

Abstract: Provided are a transparent electroconductive thin film of single-walled carbon nanotubes and its production method capable of further enhancing the electroconductivity and the light transmittance of the film and capable of simplifying the thin film formation process. The method comprises: dispersing single-walled carbon nanotubes of mixed metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes (m-SWNTs) and semiconductor single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWNTs) in an amine solution containing an amine having a boiling point of from 20 to 400° C. as a dispersant; centrifuging or filtering the resulting dispersion to concentrate m-SWNTs, thereby giving a dispersion rich in m-SWNTs; and applying the resulting dispersion rich in m-SWNTs onto a substrate to form a thin film thereon.

Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a transparent conductive layer, a conductive decoration pad, a decoration layer and an opaque conductive layer. The transparent conductive layer is disposed on the substrate, and the conductive decoration pad is disposed on the transparent conductive layer. The decoration layer is disposed on the conductive decoration pad and the transparent conductive layer, and has an opening located on the conductive decoration pad. The opaque conductive layer is disposed on the decoration layer and electrically connected with the transparent conductive layer through the opening and the conductive decoration pad.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a glass substrate for a magnetic disk in which the occurrence of micro-waviness on the glass substrate is prevented in a cooling step after a chemically strengthening step so that the glass substrate has a significantly smooth principal surface, and provides a method for producing a magnetic disk in which head crash, thermal asperity failures, and the like are prevented, the flying height of a magnetic head can be decreased, and high-density recording is enabled.

Abstract: Disclosed are a transparent conductive substrate comprising a transparent conductive thin film layer and a transparent metal oxide layer disposed in this order on one or both surfaces of a substrate, the transparent metal oxide layer having numerous fine pores penetrating from the front surface to the rear surface thereof, and the pore diameters of the pores at the surface that is opposite to the surface that is in contact with the transparent conductive thin film layer being larger than those at the surface that is in contact with the transparent conductive thin film layer; and a method for producing the transparent conductive substrate, comprising forming the transparent metal oxide layer on the surface of the transparent conductive thin film layer or transparent conductive thin film layers by oblique deposition.

Abstract: Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to techniques for making a coated article including a transparent conductive indium-tin-oxide (ITO) film supported by a heat treated glass substrate. A substantially sub-oxidized ITO or metallic indium-tin (InSn) film is sputter-deposited onto a glass substrate at room temperature. The glass substrate with the as-deposited film thereon is subjected to elevated temperatures. Thermal tempering or heat strengthening causes the as-deposited film to be transformed into a crystalline transparent conductive ITO film. Advantageously, this may reduce the cost of touch panel assemblies, e.g., because of the higher rates of the ITO deposition in the metallic mode. The cost of touch-panel assemblies may be further reduced through the use of float glass.

Abstract: The present invention is a transparent conductive film having a flexible transparent base and a transparent conductive layer made of a crystalline conductive metal oxide that is formed on one surface of the flexible transparent base, in which the thickness of the flexible transparent base is 80 ?m or less, and the difference H1?H2 between the dimensional change rate H1 when the transparent conductive film is heated at 140° C. for 30 minutes and the dimensional change rate H2 when the transparent conductive layer is removed from the transparent conductive film by etching and the transparent conductive film is heated at 140° C. for 30 minutes is ?0.02 to 0.043%. Because of that, the level difference at the pattern boundary when the film is assembled into a touch panel, etc. is decreased and the deterioration of the appearance can be also suppressed.

Abstract: A 3D image display device with high resolution is disclosed. The device may deflect left and right eye images to a left and right eye of a viewer, respectively. As such, the viewer may see 3D images. The 3D image display device includes a plurality of electrically switchable light modulating cells containing two incompatible light modulating mediums. When a voltage is applied to electrodes of the electrically switchable light modulating cell, the interface between the incompatible light modulating mediums non-horizontally deforms corresponding to the electrowetting or electrostatic concept. The geometrical shape, size, and material of partition walls in the electrically switchable light modulating cells may reduce or eliminate misplacement of incompatible light modulating mediums while voltages are applied thereto. In addition, the method of manufacturing the 3D image display device is also disclosed.

Abstract: An ophthalmic lens including an electro-active optical element including a substrate; a liquid crystalline material; and at least one first layer. The at least one first layer can include a layer of silicon oxide (SiOx) disposed between the liquid crystalline material and the substrate, and deposited onto a surface of the substrate at an oblique angle in reference to a plane normal to the mean surface of the substrate facing the liquid crystalline material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a color filter substrate that includes: a first colored layer (22r), a second colored layer (22g), and a third colored layer (22b) that are arranged on a transparent substrate (10b) and that have mutually different hues; and a common electrode (25) that is provided so as to cover the colored layers. The common electrode (25) includes: a first transparent electrode (23a) and a second transparent electrode (23b) that are formed of a first transparent conductive film and that are arranged so as to overlap the first colored layer (22r) and the second colored layer (22g), respectively; a third transparent electrode (24b) that is formed of a second transparent conductive film, which is different from the first transparent conductive film, and that is arranged so as to overlap the third colored layer (22b); and a fourth transparent electrode (24a) that is formed of the second transparent conductive film and that is arranged so as to overlap the first colored layer (22r).

Abstract: The disclosure provides a preparation method for copper oxide nanowires including following steps: step 01, a conductive layer as an electrode is prepared on a clean substrate, or a clean substrate with a conductive layer is provided directly. Step 02, copper powder is weighed up, and the copper powder is homogeneously mixed with organic carrier. Step 03, mixture prepared in step 02 is printed onto the clean substrate with a conductive layer. Step 04, the substrate after being processed by step 03 is sintered under atmosphere having oxygen, and finally cooled to obtain copper oxide nanowires. Adhesion between the copper oxide nanowires prepared in the present disclosure and the substrate is excellent, the copper oxide nanowires may substantially prepared uniformly in large area and under low temperature, technology flow of coating is decreased, a cost of manufacture is decreased, such that a promising method for bottleneck of commercialization process of the field emission device is provided.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a method of manufacturing a film product using thermal roll imprinting and blade coating. A method of manufacturing a film product using thermal roll imprinting and blade coating according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a preparing step of preparing a first transparent film; an imprinting step of transporting the first transparent film between a thermal roll provided with an imprint mask and a support roll to form a groove of a fine pattern on the first transparent film; and a blading step of filling a filling material of a paste state having at least one property of light blocking and conductivity in the groove of the first transparent film by a doctor blade.

Abstract: A method is described for depositing nanostructures of conducting polymers, nanostructures, particularly carbon nanostructures and combinations thereof. The process comprises placing the nanostructures in a liquid composition comprising an immiscible combination of aqueous phase and an organic phase. The mixture is mixed for a period of time sufficient to form an emulsion and then allowed to stand undisturbed so that the phases are allowed to separate. As a result the nanostructure materials locate at the interface of the forming phases and are uniformly dispersed along that interface. A film of the nanostructure materials will then form on a substrate intersecting the interface, said substrate having been placed in the mixture before the phases are allowed to settle and separate.

Abstract: A method for forming a metal mesh electrode of a touch panel of the present invention can solve a depletion problem of resources used for a transparent conductive layer by forming an electrode using a metal thin film on which fine patterns are formed, instead of using ITO and form a metal mesh electrode having a fine line width while controlling a height by using a screen printing method using a photoresist layer and a printing mask together.

Abstract: Display devices incorporating shutter-based light modulators are disclosed along with methods of manufacturing such devices. The methods are compatible with thin-film manufacturing processes known in the art and result in displays having lower power-consumption.

Abstract: An all-solid-state reflective dimming electrochromic element having a multilayer film formed on a transparent substrate, which is characterized in that the multilayer film has a multilayer structure comprising at least a transparent conductive film layer, an ion storage layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a buffer layer, a catalyst layer, a reflective dimming layer, and a protective layer formed on the transparent substrate, and which is sealed with the protective layer, and a dimming member comprising the same are provided.

Abstract: A liquid discharge method is a method for depositing liquid on a plurality of target discharge partitioned areas formed on a substrate as the liquid is selectively discharged from a plurality of discharge nozzles while the substrate and the discharge nozzles are moved relative to each other. The liquid discharge method includes setting an arrangement pattern according to shapes and positions of the target discharge partitioned areas so that a number of the discharge nozzles selected to be used among the discharge nozzles capable of depositing the liquid in the target discharge partitioned areas is the same in each discharge timing.

Abstract: 1,2-Diazine compounds have been found to provide anti-corrosion properties when incorporated into silver nanowire containing films. The 1,2-diazine compounds have the general structure (I) or (II).