Certain example embodiments relate to electric, potentially-driven shades usable with insulating glass (IG) units, IG units including such shades, and/or associated methods. In such a unit, a dynamic shade is located between the substrates defining the IG unit, and is movable between retracted and extended positions. The dynamic shade includes on-glass layers including a transparent conductor and an insulator or dielectric film, as well as a shutter. The shutter includes a resilient polymer-based layer and layers on opposing surfaces thereof. A first voltage is applied to the transparent conductors to cause the shutter to extend to a closed position.

A display device includes a display panel and a cover window on the display panel, and the cover window includes a cover glass, a flame retardant layer, and a functional coating layer, and a cover window having a flame retardant characteristic and an anti-scattering characteristic by using a flame retardant layer is used to improve the durability and the heat-resistance of the display device.

A display device includes a display panel and a cover window on the display panel, and the cover window includes a cover glass, a flame retardant layer, and a functional coating layer, and a cover window having a flame retardant characteristic and an anti-scattering characteristic by using a flame retardant layer is used to improve the durability and the heat-resistance of the display device.

A coated glass article provides a visible light reflecting, solar control glazing with a low emittance, a low solar heat gain coefficient, and a low shading coefficient that can significantly improve energy costs in buildings and homes while providing a desirable neutral color for, at least, film side reflection. The low emittance characteristic of the 5 glazing would minimize any indirect heat gain from absorption.

A window for a sensing system is provided. The window includes a substrate having a predetermined thickness and an index of refraction for electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of 905 nm and a layered film disposed on the substrate, the layered film including alternating layers of a high refractive index material and a lower refractive index material, the high refractive index material having a higher refractive index than the lower refractive index material, wherein each layer of the alternating layers of the layered film has a thickness, and the thicknesses of the alternating layers are configured so that the window has a transmittance of at least 80% for electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength within the range of 850 nm to 950 nm. The window further includes a hardness of at least 10 GPa, at the layered film, as measured by the Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test.

Provided is an optical film (composite tungsten oxide film containing cesium, tungsten, and oxygen), a sputtering target, and a method of producing an optical film by which film formation conditions can be easily obtained. An optical film of the present invention has transmissivity in a visible wavelength band, has absorbance in a near-infrared wavelength band, and has radio wave transparency, characterized in that the optical film comprises cesium, tungsten, and oxygen, and a refractive index n and an extinction coefficient k of the optical film at each of wavelengths [300 nm, 350 nm, 400 nm, 450 nm, . . . , 1700 nm] specified at 50 nm intervals in a wavelength region from 300 nm to 1700 nm are set respectively within specified numerical ranges.

A transparent substrate provided with a multilayer film includes: a transparent substrate having two main surfaces; and a multilayer film obtained by laminating a metal oxide layer and a silicon oxide layer in order on at least one of the main surfaces of the transparent substrate. SiO.sub.x in at least one silicon oxide layer in the multilayer film satisfies a relationship 1.55≤x<2.00. The multilayer film has a luminous transmittance of 20% to 89% and a resistance value of 10.sup.4 Ω/sq or higher. x in SiO.sub.x is a value determined by depth direction composition analysis in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) using argon ion sputtering. When the silicon oxide layer is an outermost layer, the value of x is determined excluding a point where a sputtering time is 0 minute.

A display backlight unit is disclosed including a glass substrate with a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface, the first major surface coated with at least one of 3-mercaptopropyl trimethoxysilane, aminopropyl triethoxysilane, or silanated PMMA, and a plurality of PMMA-containing light extraction dots deposited on the coated first major surface.

A glass article having anti-sun properties includes a glass substrate having a stack of layers, which includes, successively from the surface of the substrate: a first module M.sub.1 having a layer based on a dielectric material with a thickness e.sub.1 or of a set of layers, a layer TN.sub.1 including titanium nitride with a thickness of between 2 nanometers and 80 nanometers, a second module M.sub.2 including a layer based on a dielectric material with a thickness e.sub.2 or of a set of layers based on dielectric materials with a cumulative thickness e.sub.2, an intermediate layer including at least one element selected from silicon, aluminum, titanium or a mixture of at least two of these elements is deposited between the layer TN.sub.1 and the first module M.sub.1 and/or between the layer TN.sub.1 and the second module M.sub.2, the intermediate layer having a thickness of between 0.2 nm and 6 nm.

An anti-reflective film-attached transparent substrate includes a transparent substrate having two main surfaces and, on at least one of the main surfaces, a multilayer film in which at least two layers having different refractive indices are laminated. At least one silicon oxide layer among the layers in the multilayer film has a moisture permeability of 300 g/m.sup.2/day or less.