A method of forming a mirror reflector sub-assembly suitable for use in an exterior rearview mirror assembly of a vehicle includes providing a glass substrate and physically removing glass from a portion of a second surface of the glass substrate to form a curved recess locally thereat, and coating via a vacuum deposition process the second surface of the glass substrate with a mirror reflector to form a mirror reflective element suitable for use in an automotive exterior rearview mirror assembly. The method includes forming a mirror back plate in a plastic molding operation and providing a heater pad and disposing the heater pad between the coated second surface of the glass substrate and the first side of the mirror back plate.

Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to articles including anticondensation and/or low-E coatings that are exposed to an external environment, and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, the anticondensation and/or low-E coatings may be survivable in an outside environment. The coatings also may have a sufficiently low sheet resistance and hemispherical emissivity such that the glass surface is more likely to retain heat from the interior area, thereby reducing (and sometimes completely eliminating) the presence condensation thereon. The articles of certain example embodiments may be, for example, skylights, vehicle windows or windshields, IG units, VIG units, refrigerator/freezer doors, and/or the like.

Vehicle glass has a three-dimensional pattern and includes a pattern layer printed on a glass substrate to implement a plurality of shaded portions. The vehicle glass also has a metallic coating layer stacked on the pattern layer to be exposed from the glass substrate through the shaded portions. The pattern layer is divided into a first region and a second region to implement the shaded portions. The pattern layer realizes a difference in shade between the first region and the second region.

A transparent substrate provided with a functional stack of thin layers on at least one of its faces, the functional stack including, starting from the substrate, at least one metallic functional layer placed between two dielectric modules of thin layers, and wherein at least one of the dielectric modules of thin layers includes a layer of tungsten oxide, and the tungsten oxide includes at least one doping element selected from the chemical elements of group 1 according to the IUPAC nomenclature.

A metal material includes a metal having a body-centered cubic structure, in which with respect to a sum of orientation area fractions of a {001} plane, a {101} plane and a {111} plane, a ratio of the orientation area fraction of the {111} plane is 0.45 or more.

A vehicular interior electrochromic mirror reflective element includes a planar rear interior mirror-shaped glass substrate and a planar front interior mirror-shaped glass substrate. The front glass substrate is shape cut from a planar glass sheet. A perimeter seal establishes an interpane cavity between the rear glass substrate and the planar glass sheet at a respective planar front glass substrate portion of the planar glass sheet. An electrochromic medium is disposed in the interpane cavity. With the rear glass substrate joined with the respective planar front glass substrate portion of the planar glass sheet via the perimeter seal, the planar glass sheet is shape cut at the respective planar front glass substrate portion and the circumferential perimeter cut edges of glass substrates are processed to provide a circumferential rounded perimeter edge of the vehicular interior electrochromic mirror reflective element having a radius of curvature of at least 2.5 mm.