In an aspect, a chromatic facade unit for being attached to a wall (1A) of a building (1) is disclosed that can form a facade (3) of the wall (1A). The chromatic facade unit (11) comprises a support structure (15), a chromatic reflective layer (17) formed on the support structure (15), the chromatic reflective layer (17) comprising reflective layer (43) and a chromatic diffusing layer (41), wherein the chromatic diffusing layer (41) is configured to provide for a specular reflectance that is larger in the red than in the blue and for a diffuse reflectance that is larger in the blue than in the red, and the reflective layer (43) is configured to reflect visible light having passed through the chromatic diffusing layer (41). The chromatic facade unit (11) comprises further an absorbing medium (47) provided in or on the chromatic diffusing layer (41) and/or the reflective layer (43), wherein the absorbing medium (47) is configured to absorb preferred radiation in the infrared spectrum and less in the visible spectrum. Furthermore, respective chromatic window units are disclosed to comprise a chromatic diffusing layer (41) and an absorbing medium (47).

A method for producing a reflector element and a reflector element are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes depositing a layer sequence on a substrate, wherein the layer sequence includes at least one mirror layer and at least one reactive multilayer system and igniting the reactive multilayer system in order to activate heat input in the layer sequence.

A manufacturing method of a metal-coated glass fiber according to the present invention includes: drawing a glass fiber from a bushing nozzle of a glass melting furnace; discharging, from an orifice of a metal melting furnace in which a metal for forming a metal coating layer is melted, a molten metal in a dome shape or substantially spherical shape; and bringing the glass fiber into contact with the molten metal, wherein the metal melting furnace has on a wall surface thereof two orifices to discharge two droplets of the molten metal such that end portions of the two droplets abut or overlap each other to define a recess therebetween, and wherein the metal coating layer is formed on the glass fiber by passing the glass fiber downward through the recess and bringing the glass fiber into contact with both of the two droplets.

The invention relates to an almost opaque decorative glass panel comprising a substrate made of a vitreous material bearing a multilayer stack including at least one light-absorbing functional layer and transparent dielectric coatings such that the light-absorbing functional layer is enclosed between dielectric coatings. The light-absorbing functional layer has a geometric thickness comprised between 25 and 140 nm, and an extinction coefficient k of at least 1.8. The multilayer stack in addition comprises at least one attenuating layer placed between the substrate and the light-absorbing functional layer, having a thickness comprised between 1 and 50 nm, having a refractive index n higher than 1 and an extinction coefficient k of at least 0.5. Furthermore, a transparent dielectric coating the optical thickness of which is comprised between 30 and 160 nm, and the refractive index n of which is higher than 1.5, is placed adjacent to the attenuating layer on the side opposite the light-absorbing functional layer. The invention provides a decorative panel offering a pleasant aesthetic effect.

A plurality of vehicular electrochromic mirror reflective elements includes first and second vehicular electrochromic mirror reflective elements, each having a respective planar rear glass shaped substrate and a respective planar front glass substrate. The planar front glass shaped substrates are cut out from a planar glass sheet. Each planar rear glass shaped substrate is joined with a respective planar front glass substrate portion of the planar glass sheet via a respective perimeter seal. With the planar rear glass shaped substrate joined with the planar front glass shaped substrate, the circumferential perimeter cut edge of the planar front glass shaped substrate and the circumferential perimeter cut edge of the planar rear glass shaped substrate are processed to provide a circumferential rounded perimeter edge of the respective vehicular electrochromic mirror reflective element having a radius of curvature of at least 2.5 mm.

The invention relates to a passive radiant cooler (1) having a substrate and a layer structure which is applied to the substrate (2) and comprises the at least one reflection layer (3) and at least one emission layer (4), the emission layer (4) comprising an at least partially crosslinked polymer and/or a ceramic material derived from this polymer which are produced in order to form the emission layer (4) from at least one crosslinkable, silicon-based prepolymer, the prepolymer being composed of at least one type of monomer unit according to formula (I).

Vacuum insulating glass or other such vacuum insulating material may be provided with a first plate and a second plate that are arranged in mutually opposed fashion so as to straddle therebetween a space of a gap that is a vacuum layer. The first plate may have, in order of lamination from the exterior, a first electrically conductive layer, and a first charged insulator. The second plate may have, in order of lamination from the exterior, a second electrically conductive layer, and a second charged insulator which is charged with charge of the same polarity as the first charged insulator. A repulsive force that is a Coulomb force which acts between the first charged insulator and the second charged insulator may substantially balance and counteract a tendency of ambient atmospheric pressure to reduce the length of the gap between the first plate and the second plate.

In an aspect, a chromatic reflective unit (1) comprises a support structure (7) comprising a plurality of non-coplanar surface sections (7), a reflective layer (3) formed on the plurality of non-coplanar surface sections (7), thereby forming a plurality of non-coplanar reflective surface sections (3), respectively associated with one of the plurality of non-coplanar surface sections (7), and a chromatic diffusing layer (5) having a back side provided at the reflective surface sections (3) and a front side for being illuminated by incident light (9), wherein the chromatic diffusing layer (5) comprises a plurality of nanoparticles (37) embedded in a matrix (39), and is configured to provide fortogether with non-coplanar reflective surface sections (3)a specular reflectance that is larger in the red than in the blue and for a diffuse reflectance that is larger in the blue than in the red.

Described herein is coated article comprising: (a) a substrate comprising a ceramic, a glass, or a glass ceramic, wherein the substrate comprises a surface, the surface comprising a continuous upper portion and a plurality of lower portions, wherein each lower portion is connected to the upper portion by at least one sidewall; and (b) a first layer comprising a material capable of physical vapor deposition, wherein the first layer is disposed on the continuous upper portion and at least a portion of each sidewall and wherein at least a portion of each lower portion is free of the first layer. Methods of making such coated articles are described herein, wherein the substrate is coating via angular physical vapor deposition.

As the cost of energy has increased, the use of solar coatings on automotive and architectural glazing has enjoyed massive growth. Most solar coatings have metallic silver layers that are highly reflective in the infrared. The silver is deposited over a wetting layer which must have a certain level of roughness to prevent agglomeration of the silver and to ensure good adhesion. However, a very smooth wetting layer is beneficial in minimizing haze and improving solar performance. These competing factors make it difficult to deposit a silver layer that promotes both high stability and good adhesion as well as excellent optical and solar properties. The disclosure uses an AgAl/Ag bilayer, which transitions in the composition from silver-aluminum to silver. The bilayer has excellent stability and does not require a rough substrate, thus enabling the use of a smooth high-aluminum-content ZnAlOx wetting layer in providing a coating with superior stability, adhesion, optical, and solar characteristics.