Abstract:
Controllers and control methods apply a drive voltage to bus bars of a thin film optically switchable device. The applied drive voltage is provided at a level that drives a transition over the entire surface of the optically switchable device but does not damage or degrade the device. This applied voltage produces an effective voltage at all locations on the face of the device that is within a bracketed range. The upper bound of this range is associated with a voltage safely below the level at which the device may experience damage or degradation impacting its performance in the short term or the long term. At the lower boundary of this range is an effective voltage at which the transition between optical states of the device occurs relatively rapidly. The level of voltage applied between the bus bars is significantly greater than the maximum value of the effective voltage within the bracketed range.
Abstract:
Un método para fabricar una ventana electrocrómica, comprendiendo el método: depositar secuencialmente sobre un sustrato de vidrio arquitectónico que tiene al menos 20 pulgadas (508 mm) por 20 pulgadas (508 mm) (i) una capa electrocrómica, (ii) una capa conductora de iones, (iii) una capa de contraelectrodo para formar un apilamiento en el cual la capa conductora de iones separa la capa electrocrómica y la capa de contraelectrodo, y que comprende adicionalmente depositar litio metálico sobre al menos una de la capa electrocrómica y la capa de contraelectrodo, en el que el litio metálico es depositado en cantidad suficiente para compensar la carga ciega en la capa electrocrómica y una cantidad adicional de 1.5 a 2.5 veces, en peso, cantidad usada para compensar la carga ciega, en el que cada una de las capas depositadas secuencialmente es depositada por vapor utilizando un sistema de deposición integrado sencillo que tiene un entorno ambiental controlado en cual la presión y la composición de gas están controladas independientemente de un entorno externo por fuera del sistema de deposición integrado, en el que el sistema de deposición integrado incluye una pluralidad de estaciones de deposición alineadas en serie e interconectadas y operables para pasar el sustrato de una estación a la siguiente sin exponer el sustrato a un entorno externo, y en el que el litio metálico es depositado por vapor físico, en el que un portador del sustrato que sostiene el sustrato de vidrio arquitectónico en una orientación sustancialmente vertical se traslada a través de la pluralidad de estaciones de deposición del sistema de deposición integrado sin exponer el sustrato de vidrio arquitectónico al entorno externo durante la deposición; y en el que el sustrato de vidrio arquitectónico no sale del sistema de deposición integrado en ningún momento durante la deposición secuencial de la capa electrocrómica que comprende óxido metálico, la capa conductora de iones, la capa de contraelectrodo, y el litio metálico.
Abstract:
ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES Conventional electrochromic devices frequently suffer from poor reliability and poor performance. Improvements are made using entirely solid and inorganic materials. Electrochromic devices are fabricated by forming an ion conducting electronically-insulating interfacial region that serves as an IC layer. In some methods, the interfacial region is formed after formation of an electrochromic and a counter electrode layer. The interfacial region contains an ion conducting electronically-insulating material along with components of the electrochromic and/or the counter electrode layer. Materials and microstructure of the electrochromic devices provide improvements in performance and reliability over conventional devices.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a method of visually obscuring a visible defect within the viewable area of an electrochromic window having an electrochromic light comprising an electrochromic device coating disposed on a substrate.
Abstract:
This disclosure provides configurations, methods of use, and methods of fabrication for a bus bar of an optically switchable device. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a substrate and an optically switchable device disposed on a surface of the substrate. The optically switchable device has a perimeter with at least one corner including a first side, a second side, and a first vertex joining the first side and the second side. A first bus bar and a second bus bar are affixed to the optically switchable device and configured to deliver current and/or voltage for driving switching of the device. The first bus bar is proximate to the corner and includes a first arm and a second arm having a configuration that substantially follows the shape of the first side, the first vertex, and the second side of the corner.
Abstract:
ELECTROCHROMICDEVICES Conventional electrochromic devices frequently suffer from poor reliability and poor performance. Improvements are made using entirely solid and inorganic materials. Electrochromic devices are fabricated by forming an ion conducting electronically-insulating interfacial region that serves as an IC layer. In some methods, the interfacial region is formed after formation of an electrochromic and a counter electrode layer. The interfacial region contains an ion conducting electronically-insulating material along with components of the electrochromic and/or the counter electrode layer. Materials and microstructure of the electrochromic devices provide improvements in performance and reliability over conventional devices.