An electronic device may include electrical components and other components mounted within a housing. The device may have a display on a front face of the device and may have a glass layer that forms part of the housing on a rear face of the device. The glass layer and other glass structures in the electronic device may be provided with coatings. An interior coating on a glass layer may include multiple layers of material such as an adhesion promotion layer, thin-film layers of materials such as silicon, niobium oxide and other metal oxides, and metals to help adjust the appearance of the coating. A metal layer may be formed on top of the coating to serve as an environmental protection layer and opacity enhancement layer. In some configurations, the coating may include four layers.

A dielectric mirror includes a coating having alternating high and low index layers. The mirror coating has no metallic reflective layer of Al or Ag in certain example embodiments, and may have film side and/or glass side visible reflection of from about 50-90% (more preferably from about 60-80% and most preferably from about 65-75%) and visible transmission of from about 10-50% (more preferably from about 10-40% or 20-40%) in certain example embodiments.

A method of making a doped titanium oxide coating in a float glass manufacturing process and the coated glass article made thereby wherein the dopant is a niobium or tantalum compound. The doped titanium oxide coating preferably exhibits an electrical conductivity>110.sup.3 S/cm.

An electronic device may include electrical components and other components mounted within a housing. The device may have a display on a front face of the device and may have a glass layer that forms part of the housing on a rear face of the device. The glass layer and other glass structures in the electronic device may be provided with coatings. An interior coating on a glass layer may include multiple layers of material such as an adhesion promotion layer, thin-film layers of materials such as silicon, niobium oxide and other metal oxides, and metals to help adjust the appearance of the coating. A metal layer may be formed on top of the coating to serve as an environmental protection layer and opacity enhancement layer. In some configurations, the coating may include four layers.

The present invention provides a lamination system comprising a substrate and a highly reflective layer, which is formed on the substrate and has a reflective index of 2.0 or greater and a thickness of 70 nm or less.

To provide a manufacturing method of a phase difference element which is superior in moisture resistance. After forming an optically anisotropic layer by way of oblique vapor deposition on a substrate, the optically anisotropic layer is covered by a protective layer made by depositing an inorganic compound by way of an atomic layer deposition method. More specifically, established is a manufacturing method of a phase difference element containing a transparent substrate, optically anisotropic layer containing a birefringent film and a protective layer, the method including: an optically anisotropic layer formation step of forming an optically anisotropic layer by forming a birefringent film by way of oblique vapor deposition; and a protective layer formation step of forming a protective layer by depositing an inorganic compound by way of an atomic layer deposition method.

A thin film on a surface of a solid substrate, including: a) spraying on the surface: a colloidal suspension including solid nanoparticles (or colloids) of an inorganic compound dispersed in a solvent to obtain a wet layer of the colloidal suspension on the surface; or a suspension including an inorganic compound in polymeric form in a solvent, to obtain a wet layer of the suspension of the inorganic compound in polymeric form on the surface; or a solution or suspension of an organic polymer in a solvent, to obtain a wet layer of the solution or suspension of the organic polymer on the surface; b) drying the wet layer; c) optionally, heat-treating the wet layer that has undergone the drying step, whereby the thin film is obtained; wherein: the solvent comprises at least 95% by weight of water, and the drying is carried out in a static atmosphere.

A double-layer system includes a metal layer facing away from a viewer and a coating facing the viewer. In order to make the layer system production process as simple as possible and to provide a sputter deposition method that dispenses entirely with the use of reactive gases in the sputtering atmosphere or requires only a small amount thereof, the coating is in the form of an optically partially absorbing layer which has an absorption coefficient kappa of less than 0.7 at a wavelength of 550 nm and a thickness ranging from 30 to 55 nm.

A sealed structural body has an internal space and is made of glass, wherein at least a part of a boundary between the internal space of the sealed structural body and the outside is separated by a sealing material containing a metal material and a lead-free oxide glass. The lead-free oxide glass contains at least one of element Ag or P, Te, and V.

Exemplary antireflective coatings that have antireflective properties for light of non-normal angular incidence are disclosed. An exemplary antireflective coating includes a multilayer having alternating optical layers of high refractive index material and low refractive index material and a second layer directly contacting a first optical layer of the multilayer. The sum of the optical thickness of the second layer and the optical thickness of the first optical layer of the multilayer is between 146 nanometers and 190 nanometers.