269 results about "Soda-lime glass" patented technology

Film formation is conducted at a low temperature to improve conversion efficiency and productivity and to enable a wider choice of substrate materials to be used.

The invention relates to the light absorption layer of a CIS compound semiconductor thin-film solar cell and to a method of forming the layer. The light absorption layer comprises a compound represented by Cu_x(In_1-yGa_y)(Se_1-zS_z)₂ and having a chalcopyrite type structure, the proportions of the components satisfying 0.86≦x≦0.98, 0.05≦y≦0.25, 0≦z≦0.3, x=αT+β, α=0.015y−0.00025, and β=−7.9y+1.105, provided that T (° C.) is anneal temperature and the allowable range for x is ±0.02. The layer is formed by the selenization method at a low temperature (about 500≦T≦550). As the substrate is used a soda-lime glass having a low melting point.

The invention relates to a high-strength aluminate silicate glass and a chemical toughening method thereof, and belongs to the silicate glass field. The glass comprises the following chemical components (weight percent): 55 to 65 weight percent of SiO2, 0.1 to 3 weight percent of B2O3, 6 to 24 weight percent of Al2O3, 3 to 9 weight percent of MgO plus CaO plus BaO plus SrO, 0 to 1 weight percent of ZrO2, 0 to 2 weight percent of ZnO, 0.1 to 0.5 weight percent of Cl2, 0.1 to 1.0 weight percent of Sb2O3, 0.1 to 0.5 weight percent of SO3 and 0.1 to 0.5 weight percent of F2, and belongs to a aluminate silicate glass system. The high-strength aluminate silicate glass is prepared through a known plate glass production method, and then is subjected to the strengthening treatment by adopting the chemical toughening method. The glass has high permeability of visible light, and relatively common soda lime glass, neutral medicine glass and alkali-free high-aluminum glass have good shock resistance property, high scratch resistance property and high durability. The high-strength aluminate silicate glass is applied to the screen surface protection of plasma display products and liquid crystal display products, the protection of touch screens, the screen protection of automated teller machines, and the screen protection of other electronic products (Mobile phones, PDAs and media machines, etc.), thereby effectively preventing the impact and the scratch damage to the glass surface of display products. The high-strength aluminate silicate glass contains no harmful elements.

The present invention aims to provide a cover glass for display devices, made of soda-lime glass, excellent in cutting easiness and reliability of surface strength. The cover glass for display devices of the present invention includes a chemically strengthened glass, and has a compressive stress layer having a depth of 6 to 15 μm.

In the cover glass, a shape parameter determined in accordance with JIS R 1625 (1996) based on analysis of a facture stress of the cover glass measured by a coaxial double ring test is not less than 7, and strength of the cover glass when a cumulative fracture probability is 1% is not less than 450 MPa.

The glass plate before the ion exchange is made of soda-lime glass.

A solar module device. The device has a substrate having a surface region. The device has one or more photovoltaic regions overlying the surface region of the substrate. In a preferred embodiment, each of the photovoltaic strips is derived from dicing a solar cell in to each of the strips. Each of the strips is a functional solar cell. The device also has an impact resistant glass member having a plurality of elongated concentrating elements spatially arranged in parallel configuration and operably coupled respectively to the plurality of elongated concentrating elements. Preferably, the impact resistant glass has a strength of at least 3× greater than a soda lime glass, e.g., conventional soda lime glass for conventional solar cells, e.g., a low iron soda lime glass. In a preferred embodiment, the impact resistant glass member comprises a planar region and a concentrator region comprising the plurality of elongated concentrating element spatially arranged in parallel configuration.

The invention relates to thermally tempered safety glass comprising an non-abrasive and porous SiO₂ layer which is stable during sintering and has a refractive index of between 1.25 and 1.40. The inventive safety glass can be obtained by coating standard soda-lime glass with an aqueous coating solution having a pH value of between 3 and 8 and containing between 0.5 and 5.0 wt. % of [SiO_x(OH)_y]_n particles (0<y<4 and 0<x<2) having a particle size of between 10 and 60 nm, and a surfactant mixture. The coated glass is then dried, thermally hardened at temperatures of at least 600° C. for several minutes, and thermally tempered by a flow of air.

An apparatus for converting sunlight to electricity comprises a sheet of soda lime glass having a softening point not exceeding 600° C. and a layer of crystalline silicon over said sheet of soda lime glass. The layer has a thickness not less than about 5 microns and grains with grain size not less than about 100 microns. A method for making a device for converting sunlight to electricity comprises forming a film on a soda lime glass substrate, dispersing silicon powder onto the film and pressing a surface onto the silicon powder to form a layer of silicon powder on said film. The substrate and film are heated from below to a temperature so that the soda lime glass substrate softens. While the substrate is in a softened state, the silicon powder layer is heated by scanning a line focus laser beam or an elongated heater strip over a spatial sequence of adjacent elongated zones of the silicon powder consecutively so that the silicon powder in each of the zones melts and recrystallizes consecutively to form a layer of crystalline silicon with a thickness in the range of 5 to 100 micron over said film. Preferably the laser beam or heater strip scans and heats a triangular area of the layer of silicon powder, where the area has an apex leading said scan area during scanning.

The bonding strength to a glass substrate comprising soda lime glass is increased with good reproducibility at a time of laser sealing, to improve the sealing ability and the reliability of an electronic device.

A glass substrate 3 has a sealing region. On the sealing region, a sealing material layer 5 is provided, which is a fired layer of a glass material for sealing containing a sealing glass, a low-expansion filler and a laser absorbent. The sealing glass contains, as represented by mass percentage, from 70 to 90% of Bi₂O₃, from 1 to 20% of ZnO, from 2 to 12% of B₂O₃ and from 10 to 380 ppm of Na₂O. Such a glass substrate 3 and a glass substrate 2 having an element-formed region provided with an electronic element, are laminated, the sealing material layer 5 is irradiated with a laser light 6 to be melted to bond the glass substrates 2 and 3.

The present invention aims to provide a chemically strengthened glass with cutting easiness and a higher compressive residual stress than the conventional one, made of soda-lime glass.

The chemically strengthened glass of the present invention is a chemically strengthened glass manufactured by ion exchange of a surface layer of a glass article to replace alkali metal ions A which are the largest in amount among all the alkali metal ion components of the glass article with alkali metal ions B having a larger ionic radius than the alkali metal ions A,

wherein the glass article before the ion exchange is made of soda-lime glass substantially composed of SiO₂: 65 to 75%, Na₂O+K₂O: 5 to 20%, CaO: 2 to 15%, MgO: 0 to 10%, and Al₂O₃: 0 to 5% on a mass basis,

the chemically strengthened glass after the ion exchange has a surface compressive stress of 600 to 900 MPa, and has a compressive stress layer with a depth of 5 to 20 μm at a surface of the glass.

[Subject]

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a chemically strengthened glass plate having a high surface compressive stress with high efficiency using a soda-lime glass, the composition of which is not particularly suited for chemical strengthening.

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The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a chemically strengthened glass plate by ion-exchanging a glass base plate to replace alkali metal ions A that are the main alkali metal ion component of the glass base plate with alkali metal ions B having a larger ionic radius than the alkali metal ions A at a surface of the glass base plate,

• • the unexchanged glass base plate made of a soda-lime glass,
  • the method including:
  • a first step of contacting the glass base plate with a first salt containing the alkali metal ions A, the first salt containing the alkali metal ions A at a ratio X, as expressed as a molar percentage of total alkali metal ions, of 90 to 100 mol %;
  • a second step of contacting the glass plate with a second salt containing the alkali metal ions B after the first step, the second salt containing the alkali metal ions A at a ratio Y, as expressed as a molar percentage of the total alkali metal ions, of 0 to 10 mol %; and
  • a third step of contacting the glass plate with a third salt containing the alkali metal ions B after the second step, the third salt containing the alkali metal ions B at a ratio Z, as expressed as a molar percentage of the total alkali metal ions, of 98 to 100 mol %.

The present invention is a method for scribing a thin film solar cell that includes a soda lime glass substrate, a film of molybdenum (Mo), a film of copper indium gallium diselenide (GIGS), a buffering layer, a layer of zinc oxide (i-ZnO), a layer of aluminum doped zinc oxide (n-ZnO:Al or AZO), a first scribe, a conductive link and a second scribe. The method steps include producing the first scribe on the Mo film, depositing the CICS film, the buffering layer and the zinc oxide layer onto the Mo film, producing the second scribe on the CICS film, the zinc oxide layer and the buffering layer above the Mo film, depositing and filling a first insulating material into the first scribe. and depositing a second insulating material that covers the solar cell while filling the first scribe forming a conduction layer.

The invention relates to a preparation method of ropivacaine mesylate injection packed by a soda-lime glass bottle, which comprises the following processing steps of ingredient preparation, liquor preparation, soda-lime glass bottle and rubber plug cleaning, filling, capping, sterilization, lamp test, labeling, packing and finished product inspection. The injection is subject to a filtration sterilization processing step once and a flowing steam sterilization processing step once, wherein microorganisms larger than 0.22 microns in liquid medicine are removed by a filter method, microorganismssmaller than 0.22 microns are killed by flowing steam sterilization, and insoluble particles in the liquid medicine are removed during filtration sterilization simultaneously, thereby greatly reducingthe occurrence of phlebitis; and the invention is packed by the soda-lime glass bottle which has the advantages of heat resistance, acid and alkali resistance, large strength, and the like, thereby ensuring the stability of the medicine. Clinic comparison tests show that the ropivacaine mesylate injection packed by a soda-lime glass bottle has the advantages of quicker effect, long action time, reliable anesthetic effect, small toxicity to heart, separate blocking pf sensory and motor nerves, and the like, thereby being suitable for anesthesia in surgeries and postoperative analgesia.

A cement composition for use in acidic environment containing liquid alkali silicate, vitreous silicate setting agent, lime containing material and inert filler and building materials made therefrom as well as the method of making such building materials. The liquid alkali silicate may include sodium silicate or potassium silicate. The vitreous silicate setting agent may include soda-lime glass powder or coal fly ash. The lime containing material refers to the materials containing more than 20% lime and may include quicklime, hydrated lime, Portland cement, blast furnace slag or steel slag. The inert fillers include ground quartz, ground ceramic, and/or clay.

The invention relates to an alumino-silicate glass which has a thermal expansion coefficient in the range of 8 to 10×10⁻⁶/K in a temperature range of 20 to 300° C., a transformation temperature Tg in a range of 580° C. to 640° C., and a processing temperature VA in a range of 1065° C. to 1140° C. and which can therefore be used as an alternative for soda lime glasses. An object of the invention is also the use of the inventive glasses in applications where a high temperature stability of the glasses is advantageous, in particular as substrate glass, superstrate glass and/or cover glass in the field of semiconductor technology, preferably for Cd—Te or for CIS or CIGS photovoltaic applications and for other applications in solar technology.

The invention relates to a microarray-type structure chip adopting micro-flow pipes and taking advantage of diameter difference of different types of cells, and micro column arrays with different intervals and different sizes are etched in the micro-flow pipes. The chip structure is formed by up-down bonding of a silicon Si material negative-film substrate and a soda-lime glass upper cover. According to the different intervals of the column micro structure, the microarray-type structure chip can be divided into two series: variable interval and fixed interval; and according to the different sizes of the column micro structure, the microarray-type structure chip can be divided into a plurality of types: ranging from 2-30 [mu] m. The microarray-type structure chip is characterized in that: when a liquid fluid containing the different types of cells flows through the chip micro structure, and passes through the column microarrays with different intervals and diameters, different types (different sizes) of cells can be captured by different micro column array structures, and retained on the different micro column arrays with different micro structures in the pipes, and the captured results can be observed and analyzed by used of a microscope. The microarray-type structure chip has the characteristics of micro volume, flexible and customizable structure, no moving parts and the like, and can be widely applied to capture and analysis and other fields of various cancer cells in the blood, and comprehensive analysis and measuring and calculating determine of the cell type and quantity in the blood of patients can be conducted through use of different kinds of chips.

The invention discloses a method of preparing a three-dimensional graphene glass composite, which comprises the steps of providing a glass substrate, and directly growing graphene on the surface of the glass substrate by a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method. Compared with graphene glass prepared by the traditional transfer and oxidation reduction method, the preparation method is simple; cohesion with the glass substrate is high; vertical height control of a graphene nanosheet is precise; and the repeatability is high. In addition, the preparation method adopts the most common soda lime glass in daily life of people, so that compared with quartz glass and sapphire glass used in other experiments, the cost is greatly lowered. The method can realize uniform, controllable and quick preparation of graphene glass below the glass softening point temperature (600 DEG C), requires no catalyst, greatly simplifies a preparation growth technology of the graphene glass, and provides a premise for a subsequent industrial application.

The invention discloses a laminated toughened glass insulator and a preparation method thereof. The insulator is formed with soda-lime glass or ceramic white porcelain glass as the center and externally coated with aluminosilicate glass or low borosilicate glass. The section structure comprises a first and a third layer of aluminosilicate glass or low borosilicate glass; a middle layer of soda-lime glass or ceramic white porcelain glass. A double layer melting furnace is adopted to melt glass raw materials and form glass material base and then a laminated toughened glass insulator is obtained which has a transparent external layer and a blue middle after forming and annealing. The insulator is characterized by more resistance to external impact, no easy occurrence of unfilled corner, fracture and other phenomenon, no generation of cracking, resistance to temperature difference of over 150 DEG C, hard and fine surface without pores, easy self-cleaning, high strength, is bright (like a new one) after long time of outdoor use and has important significance for ensuring the normal operation of electrical power systems.

A transparent soda-lime glass substrate coated with a stack of layers including at least two infrared reflecting layers, each being directly adjacent to two light absorbent layers is provided. The coated substrate has a light absorption value between 35 and 67% and colorimetric indices of reflected color of a* between 0 and −10 and b* between 0 and −20. Glazing units containing the coated transparent soda-lime glass substrate are also provided.

The invention discloses a ferrous disulfide semiconductor film preparation method, which relates to the field of preparation of compound semiconductor films for solar cells and the like. The method includes: by an aqueous solution deposition method, using ferrous sulfate or ferrous chloride aqueous solution as cation precursor solution, and using sodium polysulfide aqueous solution as anion precursor solution; controlling immersion time of a substrate in the precursor solution and circulation times to deposit a ferrous disulfide film premade layer; and subjecting the premade layer to vulcanization heat treatment at the high temperature to obtain a ferrous disulfide film. The ferrous disulfide semiconductor film preparation method is short in procedure, low in cost, high in reproducibilityand easy in massive continuous production, and the film is controllable in component and suitable for large-area growth. The deposition substrate can be normal soda lime glass, conductive glass, flexible stainless steel plates, titanium plates, molybdenum plates or plastic plates. The film prepared by the method is controllable in thickness and component, compact and uniform in appearance, high in crystallizing performance and photoelectric property and applicable to thin film solar cells.