Microstructured glass substrates
OwnerGlenn Eric Kohnke, Jia Liuinventors
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Abstract
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. One embodiment is a method for making a light scattering inorganic substrate. The method comprises providing an inorganic substrate comprising at least one surface, forming a monolayer of inorganic particles on the at least one surface to form a coated substrate, heating the coated substrate above the softening point of the inorganic substrate, and pressing the inorganic particles into the at least one surface form the light scattering inorganic substrate.
Claims25
A method for making a light scattering inorganic substrate, the method comprising:
- providing an inorganic substrate comprising at least one surface;
- forming a monolayer of inorganic particles on the at least one surface to form a coated substrate;
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- heating the coated substrate above the softening point of the inorganic substrate to form the light scattering inorganic substrate.
An article comprising:
- an inorganic substrate having two opposing surfaces;
- and
- inorganic particles disposed on at least one of the opposing surfaces, wherein a majority of the particles have a portion of their volume above the surface they are disposed on and wherein the portion is less than ¾ of the volume of the particle.
An article comprising:
- an inorganic substrate having two opposing surfaces;
- and
- inorganic particles disposed on at least one of the opposing surfaces, wherein the majority of the particles have average diameters in the range of from 0.1 to 20 microns, and wherein the majority of the particles have a center-to-center spacing less than twice the particle diameter.
An article comprising an inorganic substrate having two opposing surfaces;
- and voids on at least one of the opposing surfaces, the surface has voids, wherein the height of the voids are 0.1 to 20 microns.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.