Method for producing a pane having an electrically conductive coating with electrically insulated defects

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10240051-B2
Application number	US-201414908940-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 15, 2014
Priority date	Sep 4, 2013
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

A method for producing a pane having an electrically conductive coating is described. The method includes applying an electrically conductive coating onto a substrate, identifying defects of the coating, focusing the radiation of a laser having an annular beam profile on the coating, wherein the annular beam profile surrounds the defect, and producing an annular de-coated region by simultaneously removing the coating in the region of the beam profile.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for producing a pane having an electrically conductive coating, comprising:
applying an electrically conductive coating on a substrate;
identifying a defect of the electrically conductive coating;
focusing radiation from a laser with an annular beam profile on the electrically conductive coating, wherein the annular beam profile surrounds the defect; and
producing an annular de-coated region by simultaneously removing the electrically conductive coating in the region of the beam profile.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the electrically conductive coating is applied by physical vapor deposition on the substrate.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the electrically conductive coating is applied by cathodic sputtering.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the electrically conductive coating is applied by magnetically enhanced cathodic sputtering.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the defects are conductive particles in the electrically conductive coating.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the conductive particles have a size of one μm to one mm.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the defects are metallic or crystalline particles in the electrically conductive coating, and wherein the metallic or crystalline particles have a size of one μm to one mm.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the wavelength of the radiation is from 200 nm to 2500 nm.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the annular beam profile is generated by a phase plate.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the annular beam profile is generated by a spiral phase plate or a segmented phase plate.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the laser is operated in pulsed mode, a pulse length of the radiation is from 1 ps to 1000 ns, and a pulse sequence frequency is from 1 kHz to 200 kHz.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a power density of the radiation on the electrically conductive coating is from 0.01 to 100 10 8 W/cm 2 .

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the radiation is focused on the electrically conductive coating using a focusing element having a focal length of 10 mm to 500 mm.

14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the electrically conductive coating contains silver or a transparent, electrically conductive oxide.

15. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the electrically conductive coating has a thickness of less than or equal to 5 μm.

16. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the substrate contains glass or a transparent polymer.

17. A glass pane having an electrically conductive coating, comprising:
a glass pane;
an electrically conductive coating on the glass pane; and
a defect in the electrically conductive coating,
wherein the defect is isolated from the surrounding coating using radiation from a laser having an annular beam profile.

18. The glass pane according to claim 17 , wherein the defect is surrounded by an annular, de-coated region with a constant line width.

19. The glass pane according to claim 18 , wherein the line width of the de-coated region is from 5 μm to 100 μm.

20. A method of using a glass pane having an electrically conductive coating, comprising:
providing a glass pane having an electrically conductive coating with a defect, wherein the defect is isolated from the surrounding coating using radiation from a laser having an annular beam profile; and
using the glass pane having an electrically conductive coating as a heatable window glass pane of a building or of a motor vehicle, or as a component of a glazing with electrically switchable or controllable optical properties.

21. A pane having an electrically conductive coating, comprising:
a substrate containing at least one polymer;
an electrically conductive coating on the substrate; and
a defect in the electrically conductive coating,
wherein the defect is isolated from the surrounding coating using radiation from a laser having an annular beam profile.

Assignees

• Saint Gobain

Inventors

• Letocart Philippe
• Yeh Li-Ya
• Behmke Michael

Classifications

• C03C8/00

  Enamels; Glazes; Fusion seal compositions being frit compositions having non-frit additions · CPC title

• C03C2218/328

  Partly or completely removing a coating · CPC title

• C03C2217/241

  with halides · CPC title

• C03C2217/255

  Au · CPC title

• C03C2217/253

  Cu · CPC title