The present invention relates to an antimicrobial glass having both electromagnetic shielding and antimicrobial characteristics while maintaining the transparency of glass, and more particularly to an optically transmissive antimicrobial glass with an electromagnetic shielding effect that includes an AZO/Ag/AZO multilayer thin film deposited on a glass substrate.

The invention relates to a substrate (10) coated on one face (11) with a multilayer of thin films (14) with reflective properties in the infrared and/or in the solar radiation band comprising a single functional metal layer (140), in particular of silver or of a metal alloy containing silver, and two dielectric coatings (120, 160), said coatings each comprising at least one dielectric layer (122, 164), said functional layer (140) being disposed between the two dielectric coatings (120, 160), said multilayer furthermore comprising a single absorbing layer (19), characterized in that said absorbing layer (19) is a metal layer having a physical thickness in the range between 0.5 nm and 1.5 nm, or even between 0.6 nm and 1.2 nm and is situated directly on said face (11) and directly under a dielectric layer of nitride not comprising any oxygen.

The present invention discloses a laminated glazing for a vehicle having thermal insulation properties. To solve antireflection issues, the glazing is comprised of a second glass layer having texturing features onto its external surface and a low-emissivity coating disposed onto said texturing features. The texture of the glass and the design of the low-E coating are tuned in such a way as to ensure a good adhesion of the coating during high-temperature bending process and, at the same time, to enable its low level of emissivity. The glazing may comprise a color and/or solar control coating onto the internal surface of the first glass layer. The glazing may also comprise photovoltaic cells and/or visible light transmission elements. In another embodiment still, the low-E coating onto the texturing features is tuned to serve as an image projection element.