A method for obtaining a glazing includes depositing, by an inkjet printing technique, an enamel coating on part of a face of a glass sheet, then depositing, at least on part of the enamel coating, an electrically conductive layer forming designs, then performing a heat treatment for curing the enamel coating and the electrically conductive layer, the thickness of the designs formed by the electrically conductive layer being at least 3 ?m after the curing heat treatment.

Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to methods and apparatus of processing transparent substrates, such as glass substrates. In one implementation, a film stack for optical devices includes a glass substrate including a first surface and a second surface. The film stack includes a device function layer formed on the first surface, a hard mask layer formed on the device function layer, and a substrate recognition layer formed on the hard mask layer. The hard mask layer includes one or more of chromium, ruthenium, or titanium nitride. The film stack includes a backside layer formed on the second surface. The backside layer formed on the second surface includes one or more of a conductive layer or an oxide layer.

A method for producing a curved laminated glazing, for a windscreen or roof of a motor vehicle includes providing a first glass sheet, coated on at least one part of one of its faces with a stack of thin layers, depositing, on one part of the surface of the stack of thin layers in a zone to be cleared, a washable dissolving layer, a pre-firing after which the stack of thin layers located under the washable dissolving layer is dissolved by the washable dissolving layer, creating a cleared zone, the removal of the washable dissolving layer by washing, the deposit, at least on one part of the cleared zone, of an opaque mineral layer, the curving of the first glass sheet and of an additional glass sheet, together or separately, and the laminating of the first glass sheet with an additional glass sheet using a lamination interlayer.

A head-up display system with an imaging unit for generating an image on a projection surface is described. The projection surface is provided for reflecting at least a part of the image. The projection surface includes a transparent screen having a transparent substrate and at least one electrically conductive coating with at least one functional layer on at least one surface of the transparent substrate.

Certain example embodiments relate to vending machines with large area transparent touch electrode (LATTE) technology, and/or associated methods. By using the low-E Ag-based coatings described herein, it is possible to create new vending machine user interfaces that are more interesting and interactive than conventional interfaces. Touch-based user interfaces may be useful in vending, attract, and game-playing modes into which example vending machines may be placed and under which they may be operated.

This invention relates to a transparent conductive coating that is substantially transparent to visible light and is designed to have a visible reflectance which more closely matches that the visible reflectance of the underlying substrate. In certain example embodiments, the transparent conductive multilayer coating includes a silver layer(s) and may be used as an electrode(s) in a capacitive touch panel so as to provide for an electrode(s) transparent to visible light but without much visibility due to the substantial matching visible reflection design.

Methods for fabricating a reduced reflectance metal mesh are disclosed, including depositing a brittle layer onto a substrate; forming micro-cracks in the brittle layer; depositing a reduced reflectance layer onto the micro-cracked brittle layer; depositing a reduced reflectance layer onto the micro-cracked brittle layer; depositing a conductive material onto the reduced reflectance layer; and performing a lift-off of the brittle layer from the substrate, resulting in the reduced reflectance metal mesh atop the substrate. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

A method of making a coated substrate having a transparent conductive oxide layer with a dopant selectively distributed in the layer includes selectively supplying an oxide precursor material and a dopant precursor material to each coating cell of a multi-cell chemical vapor deposition coater, wherein the amount of dopant material supplied is selected to vary the dopant content versus coating depth in the resultant coating.

In various embodiments, electronic devices such as touch-panel displays incorporate interconnects featuring a conductor layer and, disposed above the conductor layer, a capping layer comprising an alloy of Cu and one or more refractory metal elements selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb, Mo, W, Zr, Hf, Re, Os, Ru, Rh, Ti, V, Cr, and Ni.

An induction heating type cooktop includes a cover plate that is coupled to a top of a case and that includes an upper plate configured to seat an object to be heated, a working coil disposed inside the case and configured to heat the object, an insulator disposed between a bottom surface of the upper plate and the working coil, and a thin film that is disposed on at least one of a top surface of the upper plate or the bottom surface of the upper plate and that includes a plurality of sub-films that are arranged about a central portion of the thin film. An outer boundary of one of the plurality of sub-films is positioned radially outward of an outer boundary of another of the plurality of sub-films relative to the central portion of the thin film.