Abstract: An article includes a substrate including two main faces defining two main surfaces separated by edges, the substrate bearing a functional coating deposited by magnetron sputtering deposited on at least one portion of one main surface, and a temporary protective layer deposited on at least one portion of the functional coating, wherein, the temporary protective layer is deposited directly in contact with the functional coating, the temporary protective layer has a thickness of at least 1 micrometer, the temporary protective layer is not soluble in water, and the temporary protective layer is obtained from a composition comprising (meth)acrylate compounds, the substrate bearing the functional coating has not undergone a heat treatment at a temperature above 400° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for obtaining a material comprising a substrate coated on at least one part of at least one of its faces with at least one functional layer, said process comprising: a step of depositing the or each functional layer, then a step of depositing a sacrificial layer on said at least one functional layer, then a step of heat treatment by means of radiation chosen from laser radiation or radiation from at least one flash lamp, said radiation having at least one treatment wavelength between 200 and 2500 nm, said sacrificial layer being in contact with the air during this heat treatment step, then a step of removing the sacrificial layer using a solvent, said sacrificial layer being a monolayer and being such that, before heat treatment, it absorbs at least one part of said radiation at said at least one treatment wavelength and that, after heat treatment, it is capable of being removed by dissolution and/or dispersion in said solvent.

Abstract: An article includes a substrate including two main faces defining two main surfaces separated by edges, the substrate bearing a functional coating deposited by magnetron sputtering deposited on at least one portion of one main surface, and a temporary protective layer deposited on at least one portion of the functional coating, wherein, the temporary protective layer is deposited directly in contact with the functional coating, the temporary protective layer has a thickness of at least 1 micrometer, the temporary protective layer is not soluble in water, and the temporary protective layer is obtained from a composition comprising (meth)acrylate compounds, the substrate bearing the functional coating has not undergone a heat treatment at a temperature above 400° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate comprising two main faces defining two main surfaces separated by edges, said substrate bearing a functional coating deposited on at least one portion of one main surface and a temporary protective layer deposited on at least one portion of the functional coating. The temporary protective layer, cured by drying, by UV irradiation or by an electron beam, has a thickness of at least 1 micrometer and is not soluble in water. This temporary protective layer is obtained from a liquid composition comprising (meth)acrylate compounds selected from monomers, oligomers, prepolymers or polymers comprising at least one (meth)acrylate function.

Abstract: A process for obtaining a substrate provided with a coating, in which the coating includes a pattern with spatial modulation of at least one property of the coating, includes performing a heat treatment, using a laser radiation, of a continuous coating deposited on the substrate. The heat treatment is such that the substrate is irradiated with the laser radiation focused on the coating in the form of at least one laser line, keeping the coating continuous and without melting of the coating, and a relative displacement of the substrate and of the laser line focused on the coating is imposed in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the laser line, while temporally modulating during this relative displacement the power of the laser line as a function of the speed of relative displacement and of the dimensions of the pattern in the direction of relative displacement.

Abstract: A process for obtaining an item including a substrate made of glass or glass ceramic coated on at least one portion of at least one of its faces with a stack of thin-layers including no silver layers and including at least one thin layer of a transparent electrically conductive oxide, the process including: a step of depositing the stack, in which step the thin layer of a transparent electrically conductive oxide and at least one thin homogenizing layer are deposited, the thin homogenizing layer being a metal layer or a layer based on a metal nitride other than aluminum nitride, or a layer based on metal carbide; then a heat treatment step in which the stack is exposed to radiation.

Abstract: A multiple glazing includes a plurality of parallel panes separated by at least one spacer delimiting at least one interlayer space between the panes, the glazing being such that one at least of the panes, “functional pane”, includes at least one thin glass sheet, not thermally tempered, the thickness ti of which is within a range extending from 0.1 to 2 mm and at least one of the faces of which is coated with a stack of thin layers having a low emissivity including at least one silver layer, the stack exhibiting a sheet resistance Rs, expressed in ohms, corresponding to the formula: Rs·t22?115·n<25·t2, t2 being the thickness of the silver layer or the sum of the thicknesses of each silver layer present in the stack and n being the number of silver layers present in the stack.

Abstract: A process for obtaining a substrate provided with a coating, in which the coating includes a pattern with spatial modulation of at least one property of the coating, includes performing a heat treatment, using a laser radiation, of a continuous coating deposited on the substrate. The heat treatment is such that the substrate is irradiated with the laser radiation focused on the coating in the form of at least one laser line, keeping the coating continuous and without melting of the coating, and a relative displacement of the substrate and of the laser line focused on the coating is imposed in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the laser line, while temporally modulating during this relative displacement the power of the laser line as a function of the speed of relative displacement and of the dimensions of the pattern in the direction of relative displacement.

Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate comprising two main faces defining two main surfaces separated by edges, said substrate bearing a functional coating deposited on at least one portion of one main surface and a temporary protective layer deposited on at least one portion of the functional coating. The temporary protective layer, cured by drying, by UV irradiation or by an electron beam, has a thickness of at least 1 micrometer and is not soluble in water. This temporary protective layer is obtained from a liquid composition comprising (meth)acrylate compounds selected from monomers, oligomers, prepolymers or polymers comprising at least one (meth)acrylate function.

Abstract: A substrate includes two main faces defining two main surfaces separated by edges, the substrate bearing a functional coating deposited on at least one portion of one main surface and a temporary protective layer deposited on at least one portion of the functional coating. The temporary protective layer, cured by drying, by UV irradiation or by an electron beam, has a thickness of at least 1 micrometer and is not soluble in water. This temporary protective layer is obtained from a liquid composition including (meth)acrylate compounds selected from monomers, oligomers, prepolymers or polymers including at least one (meth)acrylate function.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for obtaining a material comprising a substrate coated on at least one part of at least one of its faces with at least one functional layer, said process comprising: a step of depositing the or each functional layer, then a step of depositing a sacrificial layer on said at least one functional layer, then a step of heat treatment by means of radiation chosen from laser radiation or radiation from at least one flash lamp, said radiation having at least one treatment wavelength between 200 and 2500 nm, said sacrificial layer being in contact with the air during this heat treatment step, then a step of removing the sacrificial layer using a solvent, said sacrificial layer being a monolayer and being such that, before heat treatment, it absorbs at least one part of said radiation at said at least one treatment wavelength and that, after heat treatment, it is capable of being removed by dissolution and/or dispersion in said solvent.

Abstract: A process for producing a substrate coated on a face with a low-E thin film multilayer, the process including: depositing a thin-film multilayer containing a thin silver film between at least two thin dielectric films and an absorbent film on a face a substrate; and heat treating the coated face with laser radiation between 500 and 2000 nm to reduce at least one selected from the group of the emissivity and the sheet resistance of the multilayer by at least 5%, wherein the absorbent film at least partially absorbs the laser radiation so that the absorption of the multilayer the wavelength of the laser radiation is such that the absorption of a clear glass substrate 4 mm in thickness coated with the multilayer at the wavelength of the laser radiation is greater than or equal to 10%.

Abstract: A process for obtaining an item including a substrate made of glass or glass ceramic coated on at least one portion of at least one of its faces with a stack of thin-layers including no silver layers and including at least one thin layer of a transparent electrically conductive oxide, the process including: a step of depositing the stack, in which step the thin layer of a transparent electrically conductive oxide and at least one thin homogenizing layer are deposited, the thin homogenizing layer being a metal layer or a layer based on a metal nitride other than aluminum nitride, or a layer based on metal carbide; then a heat treatment step in which the stack is exposed to radiation.

Abstract: A substrate includes two main faces defining two main surfaces separated by edges, the substrate bearing a functional coating deposited on at least one portion of one main surface and a temporary protective layer deposited on at least one portion of the functional coating. The temporary protective layer, cured by drying, by UV irradiation or by an electron beam, has a thickness of at least 1 micrometer and is not soluble in water. This temporary protective layer is obtained from a liquid composition including (meth)acrylate compounds selected from monomers, oligomers, prepolymers or polymers including at least one (meth)acrylate function.

Abstract: A process for obtaining a substrate provided with a coating, in which the coating includes a pattern with spatial modulation of at least one property of the coating, includes performing a heat treatment, using a laser radiation, of a continuous coating deposited on the substrate. The heat treatment is such that the substrate is irradiated with the laser radiation focused on the coating in the form of at least one laser line, keeping the coating continuous and without melting of the coating, and a relative displacement of the substrate and of the laser line focused on the coating is imposed in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the laser line, while temporally modulating during this relative displacement the power of the laser line as a function of the speed of relative displacement and of the dimensions of the pattern in the direction of relative displacement.

Abstract: A method of obtaining a substrate coated on a first face with at least one transparent and electrically conductive thin layer based on at least one oxide, including depositing the at least one thin layer on the substrate and subjecting the at least one thin layer to a heat treatment in which the at least one layer is irradiated with aid of radiation having a wavelength between 500 and 2000 nm and focused on a zone of the at least one layer, at least one dimension of which does not exceed 10 cm. The radiation is delivered by at least one radiation device facing the at least one layer, a relative displacement being created between the radiation device and the substrate to treat the desired surface, the heat treatment being such that resistivity of the at least one layer is reduced during the treatment.

Abstract: One subject of the invention is a process for the treatment of at least one thin continuous film deposited on a first side of a substrate, characterized in that said at least one thin film is raised to a temperature of at least 300° C. while maintaining a temperature not exceeding 150° C. on the opposite side of said substrate to said first side, so as to increase the degree of crystallization of said thin film while keeping it continuous and without a step of melting said thin film. Another subject of the invention is the material that can be obtained by this process.

Abstract: A glazing unit including a transparent substrate equipped with an antireflection coating, which coating includes at least one film of a porous material essentially including silicon, oxygen, carbon and possibly hydrogen, in which the atomic proportion PC of carbon, relative to the sum of the atomic contributions of silicon, oxygen and carbon, varies locally in the thickness direction of the film, from a first surface to a second surface thereof: increasing between a first minimum value PCmin1 and a maximum value PCmax, the ratio of the maximum value PCmax to the first minimum value PCmin1 being at least 1.2; and the proportion of carbon then decreasing, between the maximum value PCmax and a second minimum value PCmin2, the ratio of the maximum value PCmax to the second minimum value PCmin2 being at least 1.2.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is a process for obtaining a substrate coated on at least part of its surface with at least one film of oxide of a metal M the physical thickness of which is 30 nm or less, said oxide film not being part of a multilayer comprising at least one silver film, said process comprising the following steps: at least one intermediate film of a material chosen from the metal M, a nitride of the metal M, a carbide of the metal M and an oxygen-substoichiometric oxide of the metal M is deposited by sputtering, said intermediate film not being deposited above or beneath a titanium-oxide-based film, the physical thickness of said intermediate film being 30 nm or less; and at least part of the surface of said intermediate film is oxidized using a heat treatment, during which said intermediate film is in direct contact with an oxidizing atmosphere, especially air, the temperature of said substrate during said heat treatment not exceeding 150° C.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is a heat treatment process by flame treatment of at least one thin film deposited on a glass substrate (1) running in the path of at least one flame treatment device comprising at least one burner (2), said treatment being able to increase the degree of crystallization of said at least one thin film and/or to increase the size of the crystallites in said at least one thin film, said process being characterized in that the maximum transient bending “b” is less than 150 mm and respects the following condition: b?0.