A coated glass article including a glass substrate and a coating deposited over the glass substrate. The coating includes a first inorganic metal oxide layer deposited over a major surface of the glass substrate. A second inorganic metal oxide layer is deposited over the first inorganic metal oxide layer. A third inorganic metal oxide layer is deposited over the second inorganic metal oxide layer. A fourth inorganic metal oxide layer is deposited over the third inorganic metal oxide layer. The coated glass article exhibits a total visible light transmittance (Illuminant C) of 40% or more and a visible light reflectance (Illuminant C) of 30% or more.

A laminate including a glass plate and a coating layer, wherein the coating layer includes one or more components selected from the group consisting of silicon nitride, titanium oxide, alumina, niobium oxide, zirconia, indium tin oxide, silicon oxide, magnesium fluoride, and calcium fluoride, wherein a ratio (dc/dg) of a thickness dc of the coating layer to a thickness dg of the glass plate is in a range of 0.05×10.sup.−3 to 1.2×10.sup.−3, and wherein a radius of curvature r1 of the laminate with negating of self-weight deflection is 10 m to 150 m.

An apparatus is provided for coating deposition, particularly by chemical vapour deposition, on three-dimensional glass articles such as bottles. The apparatus lends itself to incorporation in a plant for a continuous production process for glass containers.

The present invention provides low-reflection coating glass in which a dielectric layer having a higher refractive index and a dielectric layer having a lower refractive index are stacked alternately on a glass substrate.

A coated glass article and methods for producing the same are provided herein. The coated glass article includes a glass body having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, wherein the first surface is an exterior surface of the glass body, and a damage-resistant coating formed by atomic layer deposition, the damage-resistant coating being disposed on at least a portion of the first surface of the glass body.

A substrate is coated on one face with a thin-films stack having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in solar radiation including at least one metallic functional layer, based on silver or on a metal alloy containing silver, and at least two antireflection coatings. The coatings each include at least one dielectric layer. The functional layer is positioned between the two antireflection coatings. The stack also includes a terminal layer which is the layer of the stack which is furthest from the face. The terminal layer is a metallic layer consisting of zinc and tin, made of Sn.sub.xZn.sub.y with a ratio of 0.1≦x/y≦2.4 and having a physical thickness of between 0.5 nm and 5.0 nm excluding these values, or even between 0.6 nm and 2.7 nm excluding these values.

The present invention relates to a transparent substrate comprising a multiple layer coating stack and the use of same in the manufacture of a double glazing unit, wherein the multiple layer coating stack comprises, n functional metal layer, m; and n plus 1 (n+1) dielectric layer, d, wherein the dielectric layers are positioned before and after each functional metal layer, and wherein n is the total number of functional metal layer in the stack counted from the substrate and is greater than or equal to 3; and wherein each dielectric layer comprises one or more layers, characterized in that the geometrical layer thickness of each functional metal layer in the coating stack Gm, is greater than the geometrical layer thickness of each functional metal layer appearing before it in the multiple layer coating stack, that is, Gmi+1>Gm.sub.i wherein i is the position of the functional metal layer in the coating stack counted from the substrate, and wherein for each dielectric layer d located before and after each functional metal layer m, the optical layer thickness of each dielectric layer (opln) is greater than or equal to the optical layer thickness of the dielectric layer (opln−1) positioned before it in the coating stack with the proviso that: twice the optical layer thickness of the first dielectric layer (opl.sub.1) in the coating stack, is less than the optical layer thickness of the second dielectric layer (opl.sub.2) in the coating stack, that is, (2×opl.sub.1)<opl.sub.2; and twice the optical layer thickness of the last dielectric layer (opl.sub.n+1) in the coating stack, is greater than the thickness of the optical layer thickness of the penultimate dielectric layer (opl.sub.n), that is, (opl.sub.n)<(opl.sub.n+1)×2.

A process for depositing on a surface of a substrate a layer based on a metal oxide doped with magnesium or a mixed metal oxide containing magnesium. The process includes providing a substrate having a surface, forming a gaseous mixture comprising a non-halogenated source of a metal and a source of magnesium, delivering the gaseous mixture to the surface of the substrate, and depositing the layer based on a metal oxide doped with magnesium or a mixed metal oxide containing magnesium on the surface of the substrate.

A light transmissive substrate having a coating is disclosed. The coating is formed of an adhesion promoter that includes a metal, a metal oxide, or a metal nitride. A laminate including a coated substrate is also disclosed. A method of coating a substrate is further disclosed.

The invention relates to a technique of manufacturing a coated substrate (102) such as glass (104) carrying a conductive layer (112) such as a metal layer to be tempered after deposition. A system (100) for manufacturing the coated substrate (102) may comprise a sputtering configuration (120) adapted for depositing the conductive layer (112) on the substrate (104). A pulse laser (132) is adapted for irradiating the conductive layer (112) with laser pulses (136). The pulse laser (132) is adapted for laser pulses (136) with a pulse duration below one microsecond.