A transparent substrate includes a stack of thin layers successively including, starting from the substrate, an alternation of three metallic functional layers, in particular of functional layers based on silver or on silver-comprising metal alloy, and of four antireflective coatings, each antireflective coating including at least one dielectric layer, so that each metallic functional layer is positioned between two antireflective coatings, wherein: the thicknesses of the metallic functional layers, starting from the substrate, increase as a function of the distance from the substrate, the second metallic functional layer is directly in contact with a blocking layer, referred to as second blocking layer, chosen from a blocking underlayer and a blocking overlayer, respectively referred to as second blocking underlayer and second blocking overlayer, the second blocking underlayer and/or the second blocking overlayer exhibits a thickness of greater than 1 nm.

A glazing includes a transparent substrate coated with a stack of thin layers including at least one functional metal layer and at least two antireflective coatings, each antireflective coating including at least one dielectric layer, so that each functional metal layer is positioned between two antireflective coatings. The stack includes at least one silver-based functional metal layer including at least 95.0% by weight of silver, with respect to the weight of the functional layer, and from 0.5 to 3.5% by weight of zinc, with respect to the weight of zinc and silver in the functional layer.

A computer implemented methods for estimating at least one quality function of a given layered coating on a transparent substrate allows to predict at least one non in-process measured quality function of a given layered coating on a transparent substrate from an in-process measured quality function which can be acquired on the coated substrate as deposited at any location, preferably at the end of a coating process. The method allows to get rid of in-process real-time continuous measurements of quality functions of the coated transparent substrate and real-time monitoring of coating process parameters.

A low-E (low emissivity) coating includes a multilayer overcoat designed for reducing fingerprints. The multilayer overcoat includes a layer comprising an oxide of zirconium (e.g., ZrO.sub.2) sandwiched between and contacting first and second layers of or including silicon nitride (e.g., Si.sub.3N.sub.4, SiO.sub.xN.sub.y, SiZrO.sub.xN.sub.y, or the like). The uppermost layer comprising silicon nitride modifies the surface energy of the layer comprising the oxide of zirconium so as to make the uppermost surface of the coating more hydrophilic, thereby reducing or minimizing interaction between zirconium oxide and finger oil to reduce fingerprints on the uppermost surface of the coating.

A coated glazing useful for vehicles includes a first glass substrate, and a heatable coating formed on the first glass substrate, the heatable coating including at least one heatable layer, at least one dielectric layer, and at least one integrated portion of a heatable layer and a dielectric layer, wherein the integrated portion is formed in a differential heating area of the heatable coating, for variably heating the first glass substrate for deicing wiper park areas or any other heating desirable areas.

A glazing includes at least one glass sheet provided on one of the faces with an electrical network having resistance strips and collector strips, in which at least one portion of one face includes at least one strip obtained from an electrically conductive composition including a silver paste, the strip being in contact with another strip obtained from an electrically conductive composition including a copper paste, the other strip obtained from an electrically conductive composition including a copper paste being completely covered with a protective enamel layer.

A windshield the invention is a windshield on which an information acquisition device that emits and/or receives light to acquire information from an outside of a vehicle can be arranged, and the windshield includes a glass sheet in which at least a portion is curved and on which a mask layer that blocks a field of vision from the outside of the vehicle is laminated, at least one opening being formed in the mask layer, an attachment member in which at least a portion is fixed at a position corresponding to the mask layer on the glass sheet and to which the information acquisition device can be attached, and a path member having a recessed portion for forming a path through which the information acquisition device emits and/or receives light between the path member and the glass sheet when the attachment member is fixed to the mask layer.

A material includes a transparent substrate coated with a stack of thin layers including at least one silver-based functional metallic layer, at least one blocking layer located directly in contact with a silver-based functional metallic layer, and at least one zinc-based metallic layer located above or below this silver-based functional metallic layer, directly in contact or separated by one or more layers having a total thickness of less than or equal to 20 nm.

A material includes a transparent substrate coated with a stack including at least one silver-based functional metal layer and at least two dielectric coatings, each dielectric coating including at least one dielectric layer, so that each functional metal layer is placed between two dielectric coatings, wherein the dielectric coating located in contact with the substrate includes an intermediate coating including two different layers containing silicon, the two layers containing silicon consist of different chemical elements or composed of the same elements in different proportions.

A material includes a substrate coated with a stack including at least one silver-based functional metal layer and at least two dielectric coatings, each dielectric coating including at least one dielectric layer, so that each functional metal layer is between two dielectric coatings, wherein the dielectric coating located in contact with the substrate includes a layer including silicon selected from silicon oxynitride or nitride-based layers located in contact with the substrate; a layer based on zinc oxide and tin including at least 20% by mass of tin relative to the total mass of zinc and tin located in contact with the layer including silicon, the sum of thicknesses of all oxide-based layers present in the dielectric coating located between the substrate and the first functional metal layer and/or in each dielectric coating located above the first functional layer is greater than 50% of the total thickness of the dielectric coating.