An electrically variable reflectance mirror reflective element includes front and rear glass substrates with an electrochromic medium disposed therebetween and bounded by a perimeter seal. A perimeter layer is disposed at a second surface of the front substrate proximate a perimeter edge of the front substrate. The perimeter layer conceals the perimeter seal from view by a driver of a vehicle. No part of the rear substrate extends beyond any part of the front substrate. At least a portion of the mirror reflector disposed at at least a portion of the third surface of the rear substrate extends from under the perimeter seal outward towards at least a portion of the perimeter edge of the rear substrate. The mirror reflector includes a stack of thin films that includes at least a first metal thin film and a second metal thin film.

A mirror, in particular for a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus or an inspection system, having a mirror substrate (205), a reflection layer (220), which is configured to have a reflectivity of at least 50% for electromagnetic radiation of a predefined operating wavelength that is incident on the optically effective surface (200a) of the mirror at an angle of incidence of at least 65 relative to the respective surface normal, and a barrier layer system (210), which is arranged between the reflection layer and the mirror substrate and has a sequence of alternating layer plies composed of a first material and at least one second material. The barrier layer system reduces penetration of hydrogen atoms that would otherwise penetrate the mirror substrate by at least a factor of 10.

The present invention relates to a layer system, comprising a metallic substrate (1) having the following layers applied on a side (A) thereof from the inside to the outside in the specified order: 4) a layer composed of a material selected from among substoichiometric oxides and oxynitrides of titanium and zirconium or from among metals, selected from among titanium, zirconium, molybdenum, platinum, and chromium or an alloy using one of these metals or of at least two of these metals, 5a) a layer composed of a nickel alloy having chromium, aluminum, vanadium, molybdenum, cobalt, iron, titanium, and/or copper as an alloying partner, or composed of a metal selected from among copper, aluminum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, titanium, platinum, ruthenium, rhodium, and alloys using one of these metals, or of at least two of these metals, or composed of iron, steel or stainless steel, provided the layer may only consist of aluminum if the reflector layer 6) is formed of aluminum and that, in this case, the aluminum of layer 5a) has been sputtered, 6) an optically dense, high-purity metal reflector layer, 7) a layer selected from among substoichiometric oxides of titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, tantalum, niobium or chromium and from among metals selected from among chromium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, molybdenum, rhodium, and platinum and alloys using one of these metals or at least two of these metals, 9) a layer having a low refractive index (LI layer) in relation to a directly adjoining layer 10) (HI layer), and 10) a layer directly adjoining layer 9) and having a higher refractive index (HI layer) in relation to layer 9) (LI layer). The layer system can be used, e.g. as a surface reflector, preferably in applications with LEDs, particularly MC-COB for LEDs, as a solar reflector or as a laser mirror, in particular for color wheels in DLP laser projectors.

A radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled mirror includes a mirror comprising a reflective layer. The reflective layer comprises at least one layer of a metallic material. At least one portion of the reflective layer is removed to form a booster antenna from a remaining portion of the reflective layer. A dielectric coating is applied to the mirror where the reflective layer was removed. The RFID-enabled mirror further includes an RFID chip coupled to the booster antenna.

A hybrid reflective stack assembly includes an aluminum layer, a barrier layer arranged on the aluminum layer, and a silver layer arranged on the barrier layer.

Embodiments described herein relate to methods and materials for optical device fabrication. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating an optical device is provided. The method includes depositing a dielectric film on a substrate, depositing a wetting layer on the dielectric film, and depositing a metal containing film on the wetting layer. In another embodiment, an optical device is provided. The device includes a substrate, a dielectric film deposited on and contacting the substrate, a wetting layer deposited on and contacting the dielectric film, and a metal containing film deposited on and contacting the wetting layer.

A mirror reflective element assembly for a vehicle includes an electrically variable reflectance mirror reflective element that includes front and rear substrates with an electrochromic medium disposed therebetween and bounded by a perimeter seal. A perimeter layer is disposed at a second surface of the front substrate proximate a perimeter edge of the front substrate that conceals the perimeter seal from view by a driver of a vehicle. No part of the rear substrate extends beyond any part of the front substrate. At least a portion of the mirror reflector disposed at at least a portion of the third surface of the rear substrate extends from under the perimeter seal outward towards at least a portion of the perimeter edge of the rear substrate. The mirror reflector includes a stack of thin films that includes at least a first metal thin film and a second metal thin film.

A laminate including: a first ply having a first surface and a second surface, where the first surface is an outer surface of the laminate; a second ply having a third surface facing the second surface and a fourth surface opposite the third surface, where the fourth surface is an inner surface of the laminate; an interlayer between the plies; and an enhanced p-polarized reflective coating positioned over at least a portion of a surface of the plies. When the laminate is contacted with radiation having p-polarized radiation at an angle of 60? relative to normal of the laminate, the laminate exhibits a LTA of at least 70% and a reflectivity of the p-polarized radiation of at least 10%. A display system and method of projecting an image in a heads-up display is also disclosed.

A radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled mirror includes a mirror comprising a reflective layer. The reflective layer comprises at least one layer of a metallic material. At least one portion of the reflective layer is removed to form a booster antenna from a remaining portion of the reflective layer. A dielectric coating is applied to the mirror where the reflective layer was removed. The RFID-enabled mirror further includes an RFID chip coupled to the booster antenna.

A retinal projection device includes: a light source that emits laser light; a movable mirror that performs scanning with the laser light; and a reflector that projects an image onto a retina of a user wearing a near eye wearable device by reflecting the laser light having passed through the movable mirror and irradiating the retina with reflected light. The reflector includes a plurality of unit regions provided along a surface of a lens of the near eye wearable device, and the surface faces an eyeball of the user. Each of the plurality of unit regions is a nanostructure configured to reflect the laser light at a reflection angle corresponding to a position where the unit region is provided when the laser light having passed through the movable mirror is incident on the unit region.