Glass manufacturing – Processes – With coating
Patent
1977-04-28
1979-11-13
Kellogg, Arthur D.
Glass manufacturing
Processes
With coating
65 65, 65 99A, 65182R, 427110, C03B 1800, C03C 1710
Patent
active
RE0301477
ABSTRACT:
A method of making low cost solar cells on a large scale basis by means of a continuous process of fabricating float glass and coating the float glass, in sequence, with tin oxide, cadmium sulphide, and copper sulphide, while the glass floats atop tanks of molten material in a furnace of proper temperature for each step of the process, the application of the coatings, in a preferred embodiment, being accomplished by depositing materials which form the coatings on contact with heated surfaces at such slow rates and, in the case of spray application, via drops of such uniformity that the float glass may (1) remain at uniform temperatures by virtue of the superior thermal conductivity of the molten material and retain those temperatures despite the abstraction of heat from the glass by evaporation of liquids and/or formation of crystalline layers, and (2) be substantially free of temperature gradients along the surface of the sheet glass.
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Jordan John F.
Lampkin Curtis M.
Kellogg Arthur D.
Photon Power, Inc.
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