This invention relates to an optical article comprising a transparent substrate with a front main face and with a rear main face, at least one of the main faces being coated with a multilayered antireflective coating comprising at least one low refractive index layer (LI) having a refractive index lower than 1.55 at 550 nm, named hereafter first LI layer, one first high refractive index layer (HI) having a refractive index higher than or equal to 1.55 at 550 nm, named hereafter the first HI layer, and one encapsulated metal film (EMF) comprising a metal island layer (MIL) that is encapsulated between a first layer (L1) and a second layer (L2), said first layer (L1) and said second layer (L2) being both composed of at least one dielectric material, characterized in that said—the first layer (L1) is a second LI layer having a refractive index lower than 1.55 at 550 nm and has a physical thickness equal to or higher than 10 nm, —the metal island layer (MIL) has plasmonic effects and has an effective thickness ranging from 0.2 nm to 4 nm, preferably ranging from 0.5 to 4 nm, —the second layer (L2) has a physical thickness equal to or higher than 10 nm, wherein said multilayered antireflective coating has a mean light reflection factor in the visible region Rv on the front face and/or on the rear face of said optical article that is equal to or lower than 2.5% for at least an angle of incidence lower than 35°, preferably for an angle of incidence of 0°. The absorption of said AR stack is mainly due to said MIL layer.

Window units, for example insulating glass units (IGU's), that have at least two panes, each pane having an electrochromic device thereon, are described. Two optical state devices on each pane of a dual-pane window unit provide window units having four optical states. Window units described allow the end user a greater choice of how much light is transmitted through the electrochromic window. Also, by using two or more window panes, each with its own electrochromic device, registered in a window unit, visual defects in any of the individual devices are negated by virtue of the extremely small likelihood that any of the visual defects will align perfectly and thus be observable to the user.

The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a decoration element, the method including depositing a light reflective layer having a structure of two or more islands separated from each other on one surface of a light absorbing layer; and dry etching the light absorbing layer using the island as a mask, wherein a resistance value of the decoration element after the dry etching of the light absorbing layer increases by two times or more compared to before the dry etching of the light absorbing layer.

The invention relates to a motor vehicle headlamp (8) comprising a vehicle headlamp housing (9), an at least sectionally transparent cover pane (10) that closes the vehicle headlamp housing (9), a light source (11) that is accommodated in the vehicle headlamp housing (9) and serves for radiating light through the cover pane (10), and at least one motor vehicle design element (3) that is accommodated in the vehicle headlamp housing (9), wherein the at least one motor vehicle design element (3) comprises a dimensionally stable substrate (1) with at least one coated side.

A heat-emitting transparent plate includes a heat-emitting region that is transparent to visible light and is a region that emits heat by absorbing infrared rays. The heat-emitting region includes a meta-surface, and the meta-surface includes a plurality of meta-patterns to absorb infrared rays. A method of manufacturing a heat-emitting transparent plate includes forming a material layer on a transparent substrate and forming a plurality of patterns on the transparent substrate by patterning the material layer. The plurality of patterns include a material that is transparent to visible light and that emits heat by absorbing infrared rays, and a pitch of the plurality of patterns is less than a wavelength of the infrared rays. A heat-emitting device includes the heat-emitting transparent plate and a light source.

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.

A glass body according to the present invention includes a glass plate having a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface, a translucent reflective film arranged on the first surface of the glass plate, and an antifog means arranged on one of the translucent reflective film and the second surface of the glass plate.

Provided is a transparent substrate with a multilayer thin film coating, in which the multilayer thin film coating includes a lower dielectric layer, a lower protective layer, a metal functional layer having an infrared reflection function, an upper protective layer, and an upper dielectric layer, which are sequentially laminated on the transparent substrate, the thickness of the metal function layer is 12 nm or more, and the thickness of the lower protective layer is larger than that of the upper protective layer and the thickness of the lower protective layer is 2 nm or more.

An antireflection film is provided on a substrate and includes an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer containing silver, and a dielectric layer, which are laminated in this order on a side of a substrate, in which the interlayer is a multilayer film having at least two layers in which a layer of high refractive index having a relatively high refractive index and a layer of lower refractive index having a relatively low refractive index are alternately laminated, the dielectric layer has a surface exposed to air, and the dielectric layer is a multilayer film including a silicon-containing oxide layer, a magnesium fluoride layer, and an adhesion layer provided between the silicon-containing oxide layer and the magnesium fluoride layer and configured to increase adhesiveness between the silicon-containing oxide layer and the magnesium fluoride layer.

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.