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Method and apparatus for laser scribing glass sheet substrate coatings

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OSTI ID:1175430

A method and apparatus (42) for laser scribing coatings on glass sheet substrates by conveying the substrate adjacent a laser source (83) that provides a pulsed laser beam (84) with a wavelength at a near-infrared fundamental frequency and having a frequency in the range of 50 to 100 kilohertz and a pulse duration in the range of 8 to 70 nanoseconds, and by reflecting the beam by an XYZ galvanometer controlled mirror system (90) toward an uncoated surface of the substrate for passage therethrough to the coating on the other surface to provide overlapping ablations through the coating and scribing at a speed of at least 1000 millimeters per second.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Assignee:
First Solar LLC (Perrysburg, OH)
Patent Number(s):
6,919,530
Application Number:
10/425,704
OSTI ID:
1175430
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

Laser scribing of polycrystalline thin films journal July 2000

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