The present disclosure relates to an oven cavity having a dielectrically coated glass or glass-ceramic substrate that absorbs electromagnetic radiation thereby increasing the temperature of the substrate and the dielectric coating composition, and emits heat radiation into the oven cavity.

Provided are a self-cleaning coating, a self-cleaning fiber, a self-cleaning carpet and uses thereof. The self-cleaning coating is provided with a porous structure where pores communicate with one another; the volume of the pores comprised in the coating makes up 20%-98% of the total volume of the coating; and the pore diameter of the pores in the porous structure is between 0.5 nm-50 nm. The self-cleaning coating is mainly prepared from host materials; the host materials are one or more of titanium oxide, zirconia, titanium nitride, silicon oxide, tungsten oxide, g-C.sub.3N.sub.4 semiconducting polymer, perovskite semiconductor, silver, iron, gold, aluminum, copper, zinc, tin and platinum.

An infrared-shielding nanoparticle dispersion has a property whereby visible light is adequately transmitted, and light in the near-infrared region is adequately shielded. The infrared-shielding nanoparticles include a plural aggregate of electroconductive particles composed of a tungsten oxide expressed by the general formula WyOz (where W is tungsten, O is oxygen, and 2.2z/y2.999), and/or a composite tungsten oxide expressed by the general formula MxWyOz (where M is one or more elements selected from H, alkali metals, alkaline-earth metals, rare earth elements, Mg, Zr, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ru, Co, Rh, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Ag, Au, Zn, Cd, Al, Ga, In, Tl, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, Sb, B, F, P, S, Se, Br, Te, Ti, Nb, V, Mo, Ta, Re, Be, Hf, Os, Bi, and I; W is tungsten; O is oxygen; 0.001x/y1.1; and 2.2z/y3.0).

The present invention is a method and device capturing and converting solar heat from infrared absorbing coatings on transparent surfaces, such as glass or polycarbonate, into electricity through the use of at least one thermoelectric generator. This electrical energy can then be used or stored for future access.

An LED grow system is disclosed. The LED grow system comprises: a wireless network; a red LED; a blue LED; a light controller coupled with the red LED and the blue LED and in communication with wireless network; and a mobile device in communication with the wireless network. The mobile device may include: a database having a plurality of grow profiles, where each of the grow profiles specify at least a relative intensity for the red LED, a relative intensity for the blue light, and an illumination time period; and an application executing on the mobile device that controls the illumination of the red LED and the blue LED via the light controller according to the plurality of grow profiles specified within the database.

The present invention relates to the field of organic electronics, such as OLEDs, OPVs and organic photo detectors. It particularly provides intermediates and materials suitable for manufacturing such organic electronics, to specific manufacturing methods and to specific uses.

A transparent substrate provided on one of its main surfaces with a stack of thin layers, the stack of layers including the following layers starting from the substrate a first dielectric module of one or more thin layers; a tungsten oxide absorbing layer; a second dielectric module of one or more thin layers; wherein the tungsten oxide includes at least one doping element selected from chemical elements of group 1 according to IUPAC nomenclature.

A transparent substrate provided on one of its main surfaces with a stack of thin layers, the stack of layers including the following layers starting from the substrate: a first dielectric module of one or more thin layers; a tungsten oxide absorbing layer; a second dielectric module of one or more thin layers; wherein the tungsten oxide includes at least one doping element selected from chemical elements of group 1 according to IUPAC nomenclature.

Disclosed herein are glass articles coated on at least one surface with an electrochromic layer and comprising minimal regions of laser damage, and methods for laser processing such glass articles. Insulated glass units comprising such coated glass articles are also disclosed herein.

The present invention provides scalable, solution based processes for manufacturing electrochromic materials comprising metal oxide films for use in electrochromic devices. The electrochromic material comprises a transparent conductive substrate coated with an electrochromic metal oxide film, wherein the metal oxide film is formed by a process comprising the steps of: a) providing the conductive substrate; b) coating the substrate with a solution of one or more metal precursors; and c) exposing the coated substrate to near-infrared radiation, UV radiation and/or ozone in an aerobic atmosphere. The present invention also provides electrochromic devices incorporating these electrochromic materials.