Coating and curing apparatus and methods

Brophy, Brenor L.; Gonsalves, Peter R.; Maghsoodi, Sina; Colson, Thomas E.; Yang, Yu S.; Abrams, Ze'ev R.

Title: Coating and curing apparatus and methods

Patent · Tue Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016

OSTI ID:1248018

Brophy, Brenor L.; Gonsalves, Peter R.; Maghsoodi, Sina; Colson, Thomas E.; Yang, Yu S.; Abrams, Ze'ev R.

Disclosed is a coating apparatus including flow coating and roll-coating that may be used for uniform sol-gel coating of substrates such as glass, solar panels, windows or part of an electronic display. Also disclosed are methods for substrate preparation, flow coating and roll coating. Lastly, systems and methods for curing sol-gel coatings deposited onto the surface of glass substrates using high temperature air-knives, infrared emitters and direct heat applicators are disclosed.

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Research Organization:: Enki Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: EE0006810

Assignee:: Enki Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)

Patent Number(s):: 9,314,811

Application Number:: 14/709,031

OSTI ID:: 1248018

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2015 May 11

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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