Solar-Tectic LLC to develop new sapphire glass material in 2015

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y., Jan. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar-Tectic LLC ("ST") announced today that in 2015 it plans to develop a new process for making sapphire glass using a technique which is patent pending at the United States Patent and trademark Office (USPTO) and which was reported on in Materials Letters, a peer reviewed journal (see "Crystalline Al₂O₃ on buffered soda-lime glass by e-beam").

The new sapphire glass technique involves the deposition of a crystalline Al₂O₃ (aluminum oxide) thin-film on an inexpensive buffered glass substrate such as ordinary soda-lime glass, using a variety of common and simple deposition techniques, thus opening the door for a potential breakthrough material which is inexpensive and easily scalable for manufacturing and commercialization.

The sapphire glass product being developed is an important part of ST technology since it can be used for the deposition of highly textured, good quality semiconductor films on inexpensive substrates for efficient photovoltaic, display, and LED electronics.

The new sapphire glass can potentially also be used as a protective cover layer for smartphones and other displays, as Al₂O₃ is one of the hardest materials known.

For general inquiries or for licensing of the technology, please contact Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP ([email protected], 212-238-8850).

About Solar-Tectic LLC ("ST"):  Solar-Tectic LLC is a thin-film specialist with patented technology primary focused on developing highly textured, single crystal semiconductor films on glass or other inexpensive substrates.  The company has a wide portfolio of technologies and IP towards this end, based on inventions by the late Dr. Praveen Chaudhari, materials scientist and winner of the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1995). All the technologies being developed are consistent with Solar-Tectic's mission to provide cleaner and more accessible energy to fight climate change and poverty rampant in the world today.  Solar-Tectic LLC's primary focus in this regard is solar cells, but also extends to LEDs, and superconducting wires.  This past year several papers were published in a peer reviewed journal reporting advances in R&D. Solar-Tectic LLC is a member of iClean, a group of companies harbored at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY).

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