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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6193837 | Preparation of brightness stabilization agent for lignin containing pulp from biomass pyrolysis oils A process for producing a brightness stabilization mixture of water-soluble organic compounds from biomass pyrolysis oils comprising: a) size-reducing biomass material and pyrolyzing the size-reduced biomass material in a fluidized bed reactor; b) separating a... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6186886 | Vehicle cabin cooling system for capturing and exhausting heated boundary layer air from inner surfaces of solar heated windows The cabin cooling system includes a cooling duct positioned proximate and above upper edges of one or more windows of a vehicle to exhaust hot air as the air is heated by inner surfaces of the windows and forms thin boundary layers of heated air adjacent ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6185944 | Refrigeration system with a compressor-pump unit and a liquid-injection desuperheating line The refrigeration system includes a compressor-pump unit and/or a liquid-injection assembly. The refrigeration system is a vapor-compression refrigeration system that includes an expansion device, an evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, and a liquid pum... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6169246 | Photovoltaic devices comprising zinc stannate buffer layer and method for making A photovoltaic device has a buffer layer zinc stannate Zn2 SnO4 disposed between the semiconductor junction structure and the transparent conducting oxide (TCO) layer to prevent formation of localized junctions with the TCO through a... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6156395 | Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) method of forming vanadium oxide films and vanadium oxide thin-films prepared thereby A method is disclosed of forming a vanadium oxide film on a substrate utilizing plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The method includes positioning a substrate within a plasma reaction chamber and then forming a precursor gas comprised of a vanadiu... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6137048 | Process for fabricating polycrystalline semiconductor thin-film solar cells, and cells produced thereby A novel, simplified method for fabricating a thin-film semiconductor heterojunction photovoltaic device includes initial steps of depositing a layer of cadmium stannate and a layer of zinc stannate on a transparent substrate, both by radio frequency sputt... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6126740 | Solution synthesis of mixed-metal chalcogenide nanoparticles and spray deposition of precursor films A colloidal suspension comprising metal chalcogenide nanoparticles and a volatile capping agent. The colloidal suspension is made by reacting a metal salt with a chalcogenide salt in an organic solvent to precipitate a metal chalcogenide, recovering the m... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6124186 | Deposition of device quality, low hydrogen content, hydrogenated amorphous silicon at high deposition rates with increased stability using the hot wire filament technique A method or producing hydrogenated amorphous silicon on a substrate, comprising the steps of: positioning the substrate in a deposition chamber at a distance of about 0.5 to 3.0 cm from a heatable filament in the deposition chamber; maintaining a pressure... | 09/26/2000 |
