Narrow pre-deposition laser deletion
AssigneeView, Inc.
InventorsAbhishek Anant Dixit, Todd William Martin, Anshu A. Pradhan
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Abstract
Certain aspects pertain to methods of fabricating an optical device on a substantially transparent substrate that include a pre-deposition operation that removes a width of lower conductor layer at a distance from the outer edge of the substrate to form a pad at the outer edge. The pad and any deposited layers of the optical device may be removed in a post edge deletion operation.
Claims23
-25. (canceled)
A method of fabricating an electrochromic device having one or more layers of the electrochromic device sandwiched between a first transparent conductor layer and a second transparent conductor layer, the method comprising:
- (i) receiving a rectangular glass substrate with the first transparent conductor layer over its work surface;
- (ii) removing a first strip of the first transparent conductor layer along three sides about a perimeter of the rectangular glass substrate, wherein the first strip is inset from one or more outer edges of the three sides of the rectangular glass substrate, wherein the first strip of the first transparent conductor layer is removed along at least one of the three sides to an outer edge of an adjacent side;
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- (iii) depositing the one or more layers of the electrochromic device and the second transparent conductor layer over substantially entire work surface of the rectangular glass substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.