A glazing includes a first substrate and a heatable coating formed on the first substrate, and the heatable coating includes at least one heatable layer and at least one deletion substantially enclosing a non-deleted portion of the heatable coating for increasing resistance against current flowing through the heatable coating.

The invention provides a glazing sheet and a coating on the glazing sheet. The coating comprises, in sequence moving outwardly from the glazing sheet, a dielectric base coat comprising oxide film, nitride film, or oxynitride film, a first infrared-reflective layer, a first nickel-aluminum blocker layer in contact with the first infrared-reflective layer, a first dielectric spacer coat comprising an oxide film in contact with the first nickel-aluminum blocker layer, a second infrared-reflective layer, a second nickel-aluminum blocker layer in contact with the second infrared-reflective layer, a second dielectric spacer coat comprising an oxide film in contact with the second nickel-aluminum blocker layer, a third infrared-reflective layer, a third nickel-aluminum blocker layer in contact with the third infrared-reflective layer, and a dielectric top coat comprising an oxide film in contact with the third nickel-aluminum blocker layer. Also provided are methods of depositing such a coating.

A composite window film may include a first window facing substrate, a reflecting stack and an absorbing stack. The reflecting stack may be located between the first window facing substrate and the absorbing stack. The composite window film may have a VLT not greater than about 80%, a TSER of at least about 40%, and an Energetic Absorption (EA) of not greater than about 50%.

Provided is a glass sheet (1) with a film, including a laminated film (2), which includes a plurality of films laminated together, formed on a glass sheet (3). The laminated film (2) includes: an inorganic material film (4), which contains at least a noble metal, formed on the glass sheet (3); a plated metal film (5) formed on the inorganic material film; and a metal film (6) formed on the plated metal film (5). The laminated film (2) is black when viewed from a glass sheet (3) side.

A transparent substrate is provided, on a main face, with a stack of thin layers including at least one, metallic functional layer having properties of reflection in the infrared region and/or in the solar radiation region, based on silver or on silver-containing metal alloy, and two antireflective coatings. The antireflective coatings each include at least one dielectric layer. The functional layer is positioned between the two antireflective coatings. At least one nickel oxide Ni.sub.xO layer is located under the functional layer in the direction of the substrate and/or above the functional layer, with interposition of at least one layer or of just one layer made of a different material between the or each nickel oxide Ni.sub.xO layer and the functional layer.

Provided is a silver-tellurium-coated glass powder including: a tellurium-based glass powder containing tellurium in an amount of 20% by mass or more; and a coating layer on a surface of the tellurium-based glass powder, the coating layer containing silver and tellurium as a main component. Preferable aspects include an aspect where the coating layer containing silver and tellurium as a main component further contains a component that is other than silver and tellurium and contained in the tellurium-based glass powder, and an aspect where the component that is lo other than silver and tellurium and contained in the tellurium-based glass powder contains one or more kinds selected from zinc, lead, bismuth, silicon, lithium, and aluminum.

A process for activating a layer supported by a glass substrate includes carrying out a heat treatment in a chamber of a stack of several examples of the glass substrate, the glass substrates being separated by an interlayer powder. The layer to be activated may be an ITO layer, or a titanium oxide layer, or an SiO.sub.2 layer, or a silver layer.

A substrate is coated on one face with a thin-films stack having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in solar radiation including at least one metallic functional layer, based on silver or on a metal alloy containing silver, and at least two antireflection coatings. The coatings each include at least one dielectric layer. The functional layer is positioned between the two antireflection coatings. The stack also includes a terminal layer which is the layer of the stack which is furthest from the face. The terminal layer is a metallic layer consisting of zinc and tin, made of Sn.sub.xZn.sub.y with a ratio of 0.1x/y2.4 and having a physical thickness of between 0.5 nm and 5.0 nm excluding these values, or even between 0.6 nm and 2.7 nm excluding these values.

The invention relates to substrates, in particular to transparent substrates, optionally colored, coated with an infrared-reflecting layer and capable of being used as glazing in buildings or in vehicles. Said coated substrates are made up of the combination of a glass substrate in which the composition has a redox of less than 15%, characterized by infrared reflection RIR.sub.V so that RIR.sub.V1.087*TL.sub.V, wherein TL.sub.V is the light transmission of the glass, and an infrared reflecting layer characterized by light transmission TL.sub.C so that TL.sub.C1.3*TIR.sub.C, wherein TIR.sub.C is the infrared transmission of the layer.

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.