Abstract: The invention relates to a glass substrate for chemical strengthening where a surface is coated by magnetron sputtering with a temporary thin film that reduces the extent of ion exchange upon chemical strengthening and where the temporary thin film can be removed after the chemical strengthening by treatment with an etchant solution. Other embodiments relate to a method for making a chemically strengthened glass substrate with controlled curvature comprising: providing a substrate with opposed surfaces that are durable to a given etchant solution, forming a temporary thin film upon at least part of a surface of the glass substrate, chemically strengthening the glass substrate bearing the temporary thin film, and removing the temporary thin film after said chemical strengthening with said etchant solution. The thickness of the temporary thin film is chosen such that a controlled curvature is obtained upon chemical strengthening.

Abstract: A laminated automotive glazing unit including two glass sheets joined by a thermoplastic interlayer sheet, a system of conductive layers applied to one of the sheets, and including on an edge of the same sheet a substantially opaque masking strip, making contact with the glass sheet, the system of conductive layers covering at least partially the masking strip. The glazing unit further includes busbars for supplying electrical power, the busbars making contact with the layer system in the portion covering the masking strip. The masking strip includes a set of layers that absorb visible radiation, the layers being formed by cathodic sputtering.

Abstract: The invention relates to an almost opaque decorative glass panel comprising a substrate made of a vitreous material bearing a multilayer stack including at least one light-absorbing functional layer and transparent dielectric coatings such that the light-absorbing functional layer is enclosed between dielectric coatings. The light-absorbing functional layer has a geometric thickness comprised between 25 and 140 nm, and an extinction coefficient k of at least 1.8. The multilayer stack in addition comprises at least one attenuating layer placed between the substrate and the light-absorbing functional layer, having a thickness comprised between 1 and 50 nm, having a refractive index n higher than 1 and an extinction coefficient k of at least 0.5. Furthermore, a transparent dielectric coating the optical thickness of which is comprised between 30 and 160 nm, and the refractive index n of which is higher than 1.

Abstract: The invention relates to substrates, in particular to transparent substrates, optionally colored, coated with an infrared-reflecting layer and capable of being used as glazing in buildings or in vehicles. Said coated substrates are made up of the combination of a glass substrate in which the composition has a redox of less than 15%, characterized by infrared reflection RIRV so that RIRV?1.087*TLV, wherein TLV is the light transmission of the glass, and an infrared reflecting layer characterized by light transmission TLC so that TLC?1.3*TIRC, wherein TIRC is the infrared transmission of the layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to laminated glazing comprising a substrate, in particular a transparent substrate, optionally colored, coated with an infrared-reflecting layer and capable of being used as glazing in buildings or in vehicles. The coated substrate is made up of the combination of a glass substrate in which the composition has a redox of less than 15%, characterized by infrared reflection RIRV so that RIRV?1.087*TLV, wherein TLV is the light transmission of the glass, and an infrared reflecting layer characterized by light transmission TLC so that TLC?1.3*TIRC, wherein TIRC is the infrared transmission of the layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a glass substrate for chemical strengthening where a surface is coated by magnetron sputtering with a temporary thin film that reduces the extent of ion exchange upon chemical strengthening and where the temporary thin film can be removed after the chemical strengthening by treatment with an etchant solution. Other embodiments relate to a method for making a chemically strengthened glass substrate with controlled curvature comprising: providing a substrate with opposed surfaces that are durable to a given etchant solution, forming a temporary thin film upon at least part of a surface of the glass substrate, chemically strengthening the glass substrate bearing the temporary thin film, and removing the temporary thin film after said chemical strengthening with said etchant solution. The thickness of the temporary thin film is chosen such that a controlled curvature is obtained upon chemical strengthening.

Abstract: The invention relates to substrates, in particular to transparent substrates, optionally coloured, coated with an infrared-reflecting layer and capable of being used as glazing in buildings or in vehicles. Said coated substrates are made up of the combination of a glass substrate in which the composition has a redox of less than 15%, characterised by infrared reflection RIRV so that RIRV?1.087*TLV, wherein TLV is the light transmission of the glass, and an infrared reflecting layer characterised by light transmission TLC so that TLC?1.3*TIRC, wherein TIRC is the infrared transmission of the layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to laminated glazing comprising a substrate, in particular a transparent substrate, optionally coloured, coated with an infrared-reflecting layer and capable of being used as glazing in buildings or in vehicles. The coated substrate is made up of the combination of a glass substrate in which the composition has a redox of less than 15%, characterised by infrared reflection RIRV so that RIRV?1.087*TLV, wherein TLV is the light transmission of the glass, and an infrared reflecting layer characterised by light transmission TLC so that TLC?1.

Abstract: The invention relates to low-emissivity and anti-solar glazing systems that change only very little in properties when they are subjected to a heat treatment.

Abstract: A laminated automotive glazing unit including two glass sheets joined by a thermoplastic interlayer sheet, a system of conductive layers applied to one of the sheets, and including on an edge of the same sheet a substantially opaque masking strip, making contact with the glass sheet, the system of conductive layers covering at least partially the masking strip. The glazing unit further includes busbars for supplying electrical power, the busbars making contact with the layer system in the portion covering the masking strip. The masking strip includes a set of layers that absorb visible radiation, the layers being formed by cathodic sputtering.

Abstract: The invention relates to an almost opaque decorative glass panel comprising a substrate made of a vitreous material bearing a multilayer stack including at least one light-absorbing functional layer and transparent dielectric coatings such that the light-absorbing functional layer is enclosed between dielectric coatings. The light-absorbing functional layer has a geometric thickness comprised between 25 and 140 nm, and an extinction coefficient k of at least 1.8. The multilayer stack in addition comprises at least one attenuating layer placed between the substrate and the light-absorbing functional layer, having a thickness comprised between 1 and 50 nm, having a refractive index n higher than 1 and an extinction coefficient k of at least 0.5. Furthermore, a transparent dielectric coating the optical thickness of which is comprised between 30 and 160 nm, and the refractive index n of which is higher than 1.

Abstract: The invention relates to low-emissivity and anti-solar glazing systems that change only very little in properties when they are subjected to a heat treatment. They comprise a stack of thin layers comprising an alternating arrangement of n infrared radiation reflecting functional layers and n+1 dielectric coatings, characterized in that: (i) the first dielectric coating comprises a layer made from an oxide in contact with the substrate, (ii) the portion of the coating stack between two functional layers comprises, in order: a barrier layer, a zinc oxide-based layer, a layer of zinc-tin mixed oxide, a nucleation layer, and (iii) the last dielectric coating comprises a layer made from an oxide other than silicon oxide with a thickness greater than 3 nm overlaid with a layer made from a silicon nitride or a silicon oxide with a thickness greater than 10 nm superposed thereon.

Abstract: The invention relates to low-emissivity and anti-solar glazing systems that change only very little in properties when they are subjected to a heat treatment. They comprise a stack of thin layers comprising an alternating arrangement of n infrared radiation reflecting functional layers and n+ 1 dielectric coatings, characterised in that: (i) the first dielectric coating comprises a layer made from an oxide in contact with the substrate, (ii) the portion of the coating stack between two functional layers comprises, in order: a barrier layer, a zinc oxide-based layer, a layer of zinc-tin mixed oxide, a nucleation layer, and (iii) the last dielectric coating comprises a layer made from an oxide other than silicon oxide with a thickness greater than 3 nm overlaid with a layer made from a silicon nitride or a silicon oxide with a thickness greater than 10 nm superposed thereon.

Abstract: The invention relates to low-emissivity and anti-solar glazing systems that change only very little in properties when they are subjected to a heat treatment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminated glazing for a motor vehicle, the light transmission of which is no less than 70%, including two sheets of glass assembled together by means of an intermediate thermoplastic sheet; the glazing further comprises a system of electrically conductive thin functional layers applied to a surface of one of the glass sheets, and arranged between said sheet and the intermediate sheet, the system of conductive layers being supplied by means of conductive strips arranged on said layers and on either side of the glazing, wherein the total thickness of the sheets of glass of the glazing is equal to a maximum of 3.8 mm.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a decorated glass sheet covered with a functional coating, including the sequential steps of applying at least one decorative pattern onto at least a portion of a surface of the glass sheet by printing, drying the printed decorative pattern, and depositing the functional coating such that it at least partially covers said decorative pattern, by magnetron cathode sputtering. The invention further relates to the use of the resulting covered decorated glass sheet as a facing element.

Abstract: A low emissivity glazing on a pane of glass, includes a set of thin layers formed by vacuum deposition assisted by magnetron, the set of thin layers including at least one metal layer reflecting infra-red rays between one or more dielectric layers located between the metal layer and the glass sheet, the metal layer being provided with a protective barrier coating, including a layer of titanium oxide or sub-oxide, deposited in a weakly oxidizing atmosphere at reduced pressure via a conducting titanium oxide cathode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glazing coated with an assembly of thin layers using vacuum deposition, said glazing having reflective properties for infrared radiation, while retaining a high transmission in the visible range, and retaining its properties when subjected to a thermal treatment such as bending/toughening. The glazing comprises one or more silver-based layers and dielectric layers, of which at least one underlying dielectric layer in relation to at least one silver-based layer is a titanium oxide- or oxynitride-based layer such as TiMOx or TiMOxNy, in which M is a metal or a plurality of metals or silicon, wherein these metals or silicon are contained in sufficient atomic proportions to prevent a significant transformation of the crystallographic structure of the previously deposited titanium oxide-based layer under the action of the thermal treatment.

Abstract: Low emissivity glazing which is an assembly of thin layers including at least one metal layer reflecting infrared rays between one or more dielectric layers located between the metal layer and the glass sheet and on the metal layer, the light transmission of one clear float glass sheet 4 mm thick coated with said layers being not less than 83%, the metal layer being selected such that the emissivity is not higher than 0.042.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glazing coated with an assembly of thin layers using vacuum deposition, said glazing having reflective properties for infrared radiation, while retaining a high transmission in the visible range, and retaining its properties when subjected to a thermal treatment such as bending/toughening. The glazing comprises one or more silver-based layers and dielectric layers, of which at least one underlying dielectric layer in relation to at least one silver-based layer is a titanium oxide- or oxynitride-based layer such as TiMOx or TiMOxNy, in which M is a metal or a plurality of metals or silicon, wherein these metals or silicon are contained in sufficient atomic proportions to prevent a significant transformation of the crystallographic structure of the previously deposited titanium oxide-based layer under the action of the thermal treatment.