A coated substrate, includes a coating that includes, starting from the substrate in this order: a) a layer of diamond-like carbon (DLC), b) a metallic, single-ply or multi-ply layer, and c) an oxygen barrier layer, wherein the metallic, single-ply or multi-ply layer contains b1) tin or tin and at least one alloying element for tin, which are present unalloyed and/or alloyed, or b2) magnesium and at least one alloying element for magnesium, which are present unalloyed and/or alloyed. The coated substrate protects the DLC layer, as a result of which said layer can be tempered. The coating has good mechanical stability and good aging stability before heat treatment.

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.

A glass container including a body having a delamination factor less than or equal to 10 and at least one marking is described. The body has an inner surface, an outer surface, and a wall thickness extending between the outer surface and the inner surface. The marking is located within the wall thickness. In particular, the marking is a portion of the body having a refractive index that differs from a refractive index of an unmarked portion of the body. Methods of forming the marking within the body are also described.

Various embodiments herein relate to electrochromic windows that are bird friendly, as well as methods and apparatus for forming such windows. Bird friendly windows include one or more elements that make the window visible to birds so that the birds recognize that they cannot fly through the window. Bird friendly windows can be used to minimize avian-window collisions, and therefore minimize avian deaths resulting from such collisions. In various embodiments, a window may be patterned such that the pattern is visible to birds. In these or other cases, the window may be made hazy, where the haze is visible to birds. The pattern and/or haze may be visible at wavelengths that fall in UV, and minimally noticeable (if at all) in wavelengths within the spectrum visible by humans.

Modified low emissivity (low-E) coated glass, so that windows using the processed glass allow uninterrupted use of RF devices within commercial or residential buildings. Glass processed in the manner described herein will not significantly diminish the energy conserving properties of the low-E coated glass. This method and apparatus disrupts the conductivity of the coating in small regions. In an embodiment, the method and apparatus ablates the low-E coating along narrow contiguous paths, such that electrical conductivity can no longer occur across the paths. The paths may take the form of intersecting curves and/or lines, so that the remaining coating consists of electrically isolated areas. The method and apparatus are applicable both to treating glass panels at the factory as well as treating windows in-situ after installation.

Provided is a transparent conductive film-equipped glass substrate that, during patterning by laser of a transparent conductive film formed on an underlying glass layer, can prevent the transparent conductive film or the underlying glass layer from being discolored or damaged, and a manufacturing method thereof. A transparent conductive film-equipped glass substrate 6 includes a glass substrate, an underlying glass layer provided on the glass substrate, and a transparent conductive film 3 provided on the underlying glass layer and subjected to patterning by laser. The underlying glass layer has an absorptance of a wavelength of the laser lower than the transparent conductive film 3 and higher than the glass substrate. A patterned region 10 formed by removing part of the transparent conductive film 3 by the patterning by laser includes a first linear portion 11, a second linear portion 12, and a connecting portion 13 connecting between the first linear portion 11 and the second linear portion 12. The first linear portion 11 and the second linear portion 12 form an angle of 120 or less with each other. The connecting portion 13 has a radius of curvature of 0.5 mm or more.

A front quarter glass includes a window plate, a frame-like black ceramic layer on a peripheral portion of an interior side surface, and an anti-fogging film provided in a region excluding an entire peripheral portion of the window plate. A boundary is between the regions where the anti-fogging film is provided and not provided, has no perspective distortion, and has a boundary line of 10-200 m that is visually recognized by scattering of incoming light. An outer periphery of the anti-fogging film is located is located 8 mm (0.31 inch) inside from an inner periphery of the black ceramic layer in a first region. The first region is to less than 50% of an entire inner periphery including a lower front portion. The outer periphery of the anti-fogging film is located 8-35 mm (0.31-1.38 inches) inside the inner periphery of the black ceramic layer in a second region excluding the first region.

The present invention provides a conductive laminate for a touch panel which includes a substrate, and a patterned metal layer which is visually recognized to have greater blackness when viewed from the substrate side; a touch panel; and a transparent conductive laminate. The conductive laminate includes a substrate which has two main surfaces; a patterned plated layer which is disposed on at least one main surface of the substrate and has a functional group that interacts with metal ions; and a patterned metal layer which is disposed on the patterned plated layer, in which the patterned plated layer includes a metal component constituting the patterned metal layer and the ratio of the average peak intensity resulting from the metal component contained in the patterned plated layer to the average peak intensity resulting from the metal component constituting the patterned metal layer is in a range of 0.5 to 0.95.

A coated pane with a communication window includes a base pane, a metal-containing coating on the base pane, a grid area made of intersecting, de-coated inner gridlines in the metal-containing coating, wherein the grid area has a grid area edge, and the grid area edge has intersecting outer gridlines, wherein the outer gridlines have interruptions increasing in size from the outer edge of the grid area all the way to the end of the grid surface edge.

Methods for protecting an electrochromic stack, individual layers of the electrochromic stack, a first transparent conductor layer, a second transparent conductor layer, one or more bus bars, or a low E layer on a glass substrate. Methods for protecting the outside surfaces of an insulate glass unit including the substrate and one or more mating lites are also described herein. Methods include laminating a sacrificial coating over the substrate and/or the one or more mating lites, and peeling off the sacrificial coating from the substrate and/or the one or more mating lites.