Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondensation and/or low-E coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation and/or low-E coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.

An improved decorative finish with metallic appearance in the visible wavelength range with high transmission in the infrared (IR) wavelength range. A first surface physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating stack includes silicon as a color layer and a quarter wave stack for improved IR transmission. Base coat and top coat paints included can be included to provide exterior automotive performance. For example, standard paints for today's PVD solutions could be used. A quarter wave stack could optionally be used as it is a standard optical approach. The components/stacks have more flexibility with the target wavelength range. Silicon dioxide (SiO2) could be used as a representative low index material, and titanium dioxide (TiO2) could be used as a representative high index material. Plastic substrates with IR transmission should be required.

A method for producing a solar cell, in particular a silicon thin-film solar cell, wherein a TCO layer (3) is applied to a glass substrate (1) and at least one silicon layer (4, 5) is applied to the TCO layer (3). Before the TCO layer (3) is applied, electron radiation is applied to the glass substrate (1), such that a light-scattering layer (2) of the glass substrate (1) is produced, to which light-scattering layer the TCO layer (3) is applied. Alternatively or additionally, a first silicon layer (4) may be applied to the TCO layer (3), a laser radiation or electron radiation may be applied to the first silicon layer (4), and a second silicon layer (5) may be applied to the irradiated first silicon layer (4).

A coated glass ceramic cooking plate is provided, which has a multilayer coating on its lower surface. The multilayer coating includes a metallic layer of an alloy including components chromium, iron, nickel, and silicon. The silicon content of the alloy is at least 2 atomic percent. This metallic layer is covered by a barrier layer in form of an oxide of an alloy including components chromium, iron, nickel, and silicon, also with a silicon content of at least 2 atomic percent. The molar content of oxygen of the barrier layer is greater by at least a factor of 10 than that of the metallic layer.

Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondensation coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.

Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondensation and/or low-E coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation and/or low-E coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.

An anti-reflective film-attached transparent substrate includes a transparent substrate and an anti-reflective film. The anti-reflective film has a laminated structure in which at least two layers having different refractive indices are laminated, at least one layer is mainly formed of a Si oxide, at least another layer is a mixed oxide layer mainly formed of a mixed oxide containing Mo and Nb, the mixed oxide layer contains an oxide of at least one high hardness metal element selected from the group consisting of W, Cr, Mn, Ni, Zr, Ta, and Be, a proportion of Mo to a total of Mo and Nb in the mixed oxide layer is 60 at % or less, and a proportion of a total of the high hardness metal element to a total of metal elements in the mixed oxide layer is 12 at % or more.

Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anti condensation coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.

Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondensation and/or low-E coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation and/or low-E coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.

Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondensation coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.