Provided is a black light-shielding member, which has an excellent effect of anti-reflection that based on low glossiness and has a high blackness. A black light-shielding member including a substrate film, a resin-made light-shielding layer having a concave-convex shape formed on at least one surface of the substrate film, and a blackened layer formed on the resin-made light-shielding layer is produced. By adjusting an arithmetic mean surface roughness Ra of the surface on which the light-shielding layer and the blackened layer are formed to be 0.25 μm or more, and the maximum thickness of the blackened layer is less than the said Ra, a blackness with an L value of 12 or less is achieved.

The present invention relates to a method of forming a coating layer of which a composition can be controlled, the method comprising steps of: preparing a substrate inside a chamber; evaporating a deposition material to generate YF.sub.3 or YOF particles in a gas phase by irradiating an electron beam on a YF.sub.3 deposition material provided in a solid form in an electron beam source; generating radical particles having activation energy by injecting a process gas containing oxygen into a RF energy beam source; irradiating an RF energy beam including oxygen radical particles toward the substrate; controlling a composition of a thin film by generating YOF deposition particles having a modified atomic ratio by adjusting an amount of fluorine substitution by oxygen as the YF.sub.3 or YOF particles and the oxygen radical particles react, and depositing the YOF deposition particles on the substrate with the RF energy beam.

Structures and methods for manufacturing photovoltaic devices by forming perovskite layers and perovskite precursor layers using vapor transport deposition (VTD) are described.

The present invention provides a colored radiative cooler based on a Tamm structure, including a substrate on which metal film and dielectric layers A to G are sequentially provided from bottom to top, where the Tamm structure is formed from the metal film and the dielectric layers A to D; a distributed Bragg reflector is formed from the dielectric layers A to D; and a selective emitter is formed from the dielectric layers E to G. Compared to the conventional radiative cooler, the colored radiative cooler not only has better cooling performance, but it has a wide applications in many aspects such as aesthetics and decoration.

The present invention provides a method of forming a crystalline or polycrystalline layer of an organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite material comprising a three-dimensional crystal structure represented by the formula AMX.sub.3, in which A represents an organic cation or a mixture of two or more different cations, at least one of which is an organic cation, M represents a divalent metal cation or a mixture of two or more different divalent metal cations, and X represents halide anions which are the same or different, the method comprising the steps of: (i) forming a first layer on the surface of a substrate, the first layer comprising an organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite material having a planar, layered two-dimensional crystal structure (ii) reacting the first layer with one or more organic halides to form the crystalline or polycrystalline layer comprising an organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite material having the formula AMX.sub.3. Also provided is an optoelectronic or photovoltaic device including an active layer comprising an organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite material comprising a three-dimensional crystal structure represented by the formula AMX.sub.3, wherein the material is obtainable using the above defined method.

Disclosed are vapor transport deposition systems and methods for alternating sequential vapor transport deposition of multi-component perovskite thin-films. The systems include multiple vaporizing sources that are mechanically or digitally controlled for high throughput deposition. Alternating sequential deposition provides faster sequential deposition, and allows for reduced material degradation due to different vapor temperatures.

A hybrid halide perovskite film and methods of forming a hybrid halide perovskite film on a substrate are described. The film is formed on the substrate by depositing an organic solution on a substrate, heating the substrate and the organic solution to form an organic layer on the substrate, depositing an inorganic layer on the organic layer, and heating the substrate having the inorganic layer thereon to form a hybrid halide perovskite film. In some embodiments, the hybrid halide perovskite film comprises a CH[NH.sub.2].sub.2.sup.+MX.sub.3 compound, where M is selected from the group consisting of Sn, Pb, Bi, Mg and Mn, and where X is selected from the group consisting of I, Br and Cl. In other embodiments, the hybrid halide perovskite film comprises a FAMX.sub.3 compound. Methods of forming a piezoelectric device are also disclosed.

The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating an anti-reflective layer on a quartz surface by using a metal-induced self-masking etching technique, comprising: performing reactive ion etching to a metal material and a quartz substrate by using a mixed gas containing a fluorine-based gas, wherein metal atoms and/or ions of the metal material are sputtered to a surface of the quartz substrate, to form a non-volatile metal fluoride on the surface of the quartz substrate; forming a micromask by a product of etching generated by reactive ion etching gathering around the non-volatile metal fluoride; and etching the micromask and the quartz substrate simultaneously, to form an anti-reflective layer having a sub-wavelength structure.

An optical filter may include a set of optical filter layers disposed onto a substrate. The set of optical filter layers may include a first subset of optical filter layers comprising a first material with a first refractive index. The first material may comprise at least silicon and hydrogen. The set of optical filter layers may include a second subset of optical filter layers comprising a second material with a second refractive index. The second material is different from the first material and the second refractive index is less than the first refractive index. The set of optical filter layers may include a third subset of optical filter layers comprising a third material different from the first material and the second material.

The present invention relates to a method of forming a coating layer of which a composition can be controlled, the method comprising steps of: preparing a substrate inside a chamber; evaporating a deposition material to generate YF.sub.3 or YOF particles in a gas phase by irradiating an electron beam on a YF.sub.3 deposition material provided in a solid form in an electron beam source; generating radical particles having activation energy by injecting a process gas containing oxygen into a RF energy beam source; irradiating an RF energy beam including oxygen radical particles toward the substrate; controlling a composition of a thin film by generating YOF deposition particles having a modified atomic ratio by adjusting an amount of fluorine substitution by oxygen as the YF.sub.3 or YOF particles and the oxygen radical particles react, and depositing the YOF deposition particles on the substrate with the RF energy beam.