To provide a water/oil repellent layer-provided substrate having improved long-term reliability of abrasion resistance, and a method for producing it.

A water/oil repellent layer-provided substrate comprising a substrate, an undercoat layer formed on the surface of the substrate, and a water/oil repellent layer formed on the surface of the undercoat layer, in this order, wherein the alkali deficiency index is higher than 0.0, as determined by a depth profile obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) by C.sub.60 ion sputtering from the side of the surface of the water/oil repellent layer, taking the total concentration of fluorine, silicon, aluminum, alkali metal elements and oxygen as 100 at %.

A hood for depositing vaporized metals on glass container surfaces includes a vaporized metal source that produces vaporized metal; an enclosure, receiving one or more glass containers, comprising at least one side wall and at least one center section having a top above the glass containers; and one or more conduits that fluidly communicate the vaporized metal to an opening in at least one of the top of the center section and the side wall using one or more conduit fans.

To provide a water/oil repellent layer-provided substrate having a water/oil repellent layer excellent in abrasion resistance, a deposition material and a method for producing a water/oil repellent layer-provided substrate.

The water/oil repellent layer-provided substrate of the present invention is a water/oil repellent layer-provided substrate comprising a substrate, an undercoat layer and a water/oil repellent layer in this order, wherein the water/oil repellent layer comprises a condensate of a fluorinated compound having a reactive silyl group, the undercoat layer contains an oxide containing silicon and an alkaline earth metal element, and the ratio of the molar concentration of the alkaline earth metal element in the undercoat layer to the molar concentration of silicon in the undercoat layer is from 0.005 to 5.

A cover window according to an exemplary embodiment includes a glass substrate, and a first coating layer disposed on a first major surface of the glass substrate, where the first coating layer includes an epoxy silane and an oligomer, and an average molecular weight of the oligomer is about 300 g/mol to about 5000 g/mol.

A method for making a plasmonic mushroom array includes: forming a plurality of metal nano-islands each having nanometer-range dimensions on a surface of a glass substrate; and subjecting to the glass substrate having the plurality of metal nano-islands formed thereon to reactive ion etching such that the plurality of metal nano-islands are converted to a plurality of mushroom-shaped structures each having a metal cap supported by a pillar made of a material of the glass substrate and each having dimensions smaller than the dimensions of the nano-islands, the plurality of mushroom-shaped structures being arranged in a substantially regular pattern with intervals smaller than average intervals between the nano-islands, thereby forming the plurality of nano-scale mushroom-shaped structures on the glass substrate that can exhibit localized surface plasmon resonance.

Methods for making solid-state laminate electrode assemblies include methods of forming a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) by ion implanting nitrogen and/or phosphorous into the glass surface by ion implantation.

This optical thin film is provided on a substrate, the optical thin film having a silicon oxide layer containing an oxide of silicon (Si), and a water repellent layer is contains a fluoride and is provided on the silicon oxide layer, the hardness of the silicon oxide layer measured by nanoindentation being 9 GPa or greater, and the arithmetic mean roughness of the water repellent layer measured by AFM being 0.7 nm or greater.

A sulfide glass solid electrolyte sheet can be protected during Li by a thin material layer coating for providing that protection (i.e., protective coating).

A metal oxide film includes indium, M, (M is Al, Ga, Y, or Sn), and zinc and includes a region where a peak having a diffraction intensity derived from a crystal structure is observed by X-ray diffraction in the direction perpendicular to the film surface. Moreover, a plurality of crystal parts is observed in a transmission electron microscope image in the direction perpendicular to the film surface. The proportion of a region other than the crystal parts is higher than or equal to 20% and lower than or equal to 60%.

Methods for making solid-state laminate electrode assemblies include methods of forming a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) by ion implanting nitrogen and/or phosphorous into the glass surface by ion implantation.