IP Library Granted Patent US 12,312,474
Granted Patent B2
US 12,312,474 · App. 17/340,131 · Granted May 27, 2025

Method of manufacturing pigment

Inventors: Daoyuan Ma (Ningbo, CN); Lingjie Jay Guo (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee: NINGBO INLIGHT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
C09C1/0015C09C3/04C23C14/0005C23C14/0015C23C14/20
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Patent No.
US 12,312,474
App. No.
17/340,131
Granted
May 27, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of manufacturing a pigment. The method includes: providing a substrate; forming stacked multiple sets of films successively on the substrate, wherein each set of films comprises a sacrificial layer and an optical film, the sacrificial layer and the optical film are successively stacked, and the sacrificial layer is a stripping agent with compressive stress or low stress; and obtaining the pigment by stripping and crushing formed multiple sets of films.

Claims (37)

1. A method of manufacturing a pigment, comprising:

providing a substrate;

forming stacked multiple sets of films successively on the substrate, wherein each set of films comprises a sacrificial layer and an optical film, the sacrificial layer and the optical film are successively stacked, and the sacrificial layer is a stripping agent with compressive stress or low stress; and

obtaining the pigment by stripping and crushing formed multiple sets of films,

wherein the stripping agent is a soluble substance capable of producing the compressive stress or the low stress in a film after evaporation coating, the stripping agent is at least one of inorganic salt, organic acid salt and base salt,

the inorganic salt is at least one of hydrochloride, nitrate, sulfate, phosphate and carbonate; the organic acid salt is at least one of acrylate, acetate and stearate; and the base salt is at least one of NaOH, KOH and Ca(OH) 2 .

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the forming stacked multiple sets of films successively on the substrate, comprises:

forming the sacrificial layer by evaporating a stripping agent on the substrate;

obtaining a first set of films by plating the optical film on a substrate with the sacrificial layer; and

stacking the sacrificial layer and the optical film on the first set of films by repeating above steps, and then stacking a second set of films on the first set of films,

repeatedly stacking the sacrificial layer and the optical film by repeating above steps, and then successively forming the stacked multiple sets of films on the substrate.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein in response to the optical film being plated on the substrate with the sacrificial layer, methods for plating the optical film comprises at least one of physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition and atomic layer deposition.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the physical vapor deposition is at least one of resistance thermal evaporation, electron beam evaporation, sputtering and ion assisted evaporation.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the number of the stacked multiple sets of films is 10-55 sets.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the optical film comprises at least one of a dielectric layer, a semiconductor layer and a metal layer.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the dielectric layer is formed by silicon oxide, aluminum oxide, titanium oxide, or zirconia;

the semiconductor layer is formed by silicon or germanium; and

the metal layer is formed by silver, chromium, copper, nickel, or aluminum.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein total stress of multilayer optical films is tensile stress.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the pigment is in a form of thin sheet with a thickness of 0.015-1 μm and a length of 5-200 μm and a width of 5-200 μm.

10. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

conducting surface treatment of the pigment after crushing treatment.

11. A method of manufacturing a pigment, comprising:

providing a substrate;

forming multiple sacrificial layers and multiple optical films on the substrate, wherein a sacrificial layer and an optical film are successively alternately stacked multiple sets of films successively, each set of films comprises a sacrificial layer and an optical film, and the sacrificial layer is a stripping agent with compressive stress or low stress; and

obtaining the pigment by stripping and crushing formed multiple sacrificial layers and multiple optical films,

wherein the stripping agent is a soluble substance capable of producing the compressive stress or the low stress in a film after evaporation coating, the stripping agent is at least one of inorganic salt, organic acid salt and base salt,

the inorganic salt is at least one of hydrochloride, nitrate, sulfate, phosphate and carbonate; the organic acid salt is at least one of acrylate, acetate and stearate; and the base salt is at least one of NaOH, KOH and Ca(OH) 2 .

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the pigment is in a form of thin sheet with a thickness of 0.015-1 μm and a length of 5-200 μm and a width of 5-200 μm.

13. The method according to claim 11 , wherein total stress of the multilayer optical films is tensile stress.

14. A method of manufacturing a pigment, comprising:

providing a substrate;

forming a set of films on the substrate, wherein the set of films comprises a sacrificial layer and an optical film, the sacrificial layer and the optical film are successively stacked, and the sacrificial layer is a stripping agent with compressive stress or low stress;

forming stacked multiple sets of films successively by repeating forming the set of films; and

obtaining the pigment by stripping and crushing formed multiple sets of films,

wherein the stripping agent is a soluble substance capable of producing the compressive stress or the low stress in a film after evaporation coating, the stripping agent is at least one of inorganic salt, organic acid salt and base salt,

the inorganic salt is at least one of hydrochloride, nitrate, sulfate, phosphate and carbonate; the organic acid salt is at least one of acrylate, acetate and stearate; and the base salt is at least one of NaOH, KOH and Ca(OH) 2 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 7, 2021
From: MA, DAOYUAN; GUO, LINGJIE JAY
To: NINGBO INLIGHT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 056494/0150 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201811496303.1 · Dec 7, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2019122760 · Dec 3, 2019
Related Publication 20210292568A1 · Sep 23, 2021
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