A coated substrate includes a coating, wherein the coating includes, starting from the substrate in this order: a. a layer of diamond-like carbon, b. a metallic multi-ply layer, wherein the metallic multi-ply layer contains b1) tin and at least one alloying element for tin, or b2) magnesium and at least one alloying element for magnesium, wherein the metallic multi-ply layer is formed from two, three, or more plies, wherein one or more plies contain tin and one or more plies made of at least one alloying element for tin selected from antimony, copper, lead, silver, indium, gallium and/or germanium, are arranged alternatingly, or wherein one or more plies contain magnesium and one or more plies made of at least one alloying element for magnesium selected from aluminum, bismuth, manganese, copper, cadmium, iron, strontium, zirconium, thorium, lithium, nickel, lead, silver, chromium, silicon, tin, gadolinium, yttrium, calcium and/or antimony, are arranged alternatingly.

Hybrid organic/inorganic coating compositions of nanometer thickness are described, where the organic layer is a clay-containing layer comprising a clay and a hydrophilic polymer and the inorganic layer is a metal-containing layer comprising a metal with a refractive index greater than 1.5, where the coating compositions allow for the generation and tenability of iridescent color through control of the coat thickness.

An article can include a non-light-emitting, variable transmission device and a coating disposed between the non-light-emitting, variable transmission device and an ambient outside the article. In an embodiment, the article has a ΔE of at most 6.5. In another embodiment, the coating includes a plurality of layers including a first layer having a refractive index of at least 2.2 and a thickness of at least 10 nm. The coating can be used to help reduce color differences seen when the non-light-transmitting, variable transmission device is taken to different transmission states. In a particular embodiment, the coating can provide a good balance between color difference and luminous transmission.

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.

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.

A material includes a transparent substrate coated on one face with a stack of thin layers successively including, starting from the face, an alternation of three silver-based functional metal layers denoted, starting from the substrate, first, second and third functional layers respectively Ag1, Ag2 and Ag3, and of four dielectric coatings denoted, starting from the substrate, M1, M2, M3 and M4, with optical thicknesses respectively To1, To2, To3 and To4. Each functional metal layer is positioned between two dielectric coatings. The geometrical thickness of the second functional layer Ag2 is less than the thickness of the first functional layer Ag1. The geometrical thickness of the second functional layer Ag2 is less than the thickness of the third functional layer Ag3. The dielectric coating M2 exhibits a lower optical thickness To2 than the optical thicknesses To1, To3 and To4 respectively of the dielectric coatings M1, M3 and M4.

A transparent substrate provided with a multi-layered coating is provided, the coating including the following in an order from the substrate: a first dielectric film including one or more dielectric layers, a first metallic protective layer, a first metallic layer having an infrared (IR) reflection characteristic, a second metallic protective layer, a second dielectric film including two or more dielectric layers, a third metallic protective layer, a second metallic layer having an infrared (IR) reflection characteristic, a fourth metallic protective layer, and a third dielectric film D3 including one or more dielectric layers, wherein the dielectric layer includes a metal oxide, a metal nitride, or a metal oxynitride, the metallic layer is silver (Ag) or a silver (Ag)-containing metal alloy, a normal emissivity is 2.0% or less, and a difference between a coated surface reflectance and an uncoated surface reflectance is 21% or more.

In an imprint mold-forming synthetic quartz glass substrate (1) of rectangular shape having dimensions L1 and L2 with L1≥L2, a circular region is delineated on the substrate back surface by a circle of radius R with L2−2R≥10 mm. When approximation analysis is performed from the 1st to 8th term in the Zernike polynomials on the circular region, a coefficient of the 4th term is equal to or greater than −(2R/100,000×1) μm.

A method of making a functionalized device for amplification or multiplication of electrons includes making a glass channel array by a laser-induced deep etching process including (1) applying laser pulses to a glass substrate to form an array of modified areas, the glass substrate having a thickness less than 5 mm, the modified areas extending between two surfaces of the glass substrate, and (2) subsequently performing an etching process to selectively remove the modified areas and thereby form an array of through channels. Subsequently, one or more materials are deposited on the glass channel array to form the functionalized device.

A method of manufacturing a variable reflectance mirror reflective element suitable for use in a vehicular rearview mirror assembly includes providing a front glass sheet and a plurality of rear glass substrates, and joining and spacing the rear glass substrates at the front glass sheet via perimeter seals. After the rear glass substrates are joined with the front glass sheet, the front glass sheet is cut to form a plurality of front glass substrates. A back plate is attached at the rear side of each of the rear glass substrates. After cutting the front glass sheet, the back plate of the respective rear glass substrate and cut front glass substrate portion is fixtured at a finishing tool, which processes the cut edges of at least the respective front glass substrate to provide a finished perimeter edge of the front glass substrate to form a variable reflectance mirror reflective element.