A method of fabricating a flexible printed circuit includes providing a carrying support comprised of a rigid support base and a release layer adhered in contact with each other, forming a flexible substrate on the carrying support, the formed flexible substrate being adhered in contact with the release layer, applying one or more processing step on the flexible substrate while the flexible substrate is supported by the carrying support, and peeling the flexible substrate with an electric circuit formed thereon from the release layer while the release layer remains adhered in contact with the support base.

A method of manufacturing an etched glass article includes the steps of jetting an image with a UV curable inkjet ink on a surface of a glass article; UV curing the image; etching the surface not covered by the UV cured image to obtain an etched image; and removing the UV cured image; wherein a time between jetting and curing the image is at least 50 ms.

An apparatus for processing a glass web can include a gas nozzle to generate a curtain of gas to entrain debris generated during a separation procedure. In further embodiments, apparatus for processing a glass web includes a washing device including a housing with a partition dividing an interior of the housing into a first area and a second area. In still further embodiments, apparatus for processing a glass web includes a coating chamber positioned down-stream from a washing device, wherein the coating chamber includes at least one port configured to dispense a coating on at least one major surface of the glass web. Methods can include entraining debris generated during a separation procedure into a gas curtain. Further methods include washing a glass sheet within a housing including two interior areas and coating a washed glass sheet with a protective coating.

Glass stack configurations including a carrier plate, setter plates, and glass sheets for thermal treatment of the glass sheets to form glass ceramic articles are provided. The glass stacking configurations and components described herein are selected to improve thermal uniformity throughout a glass stack during ceramming processes while maintaining or even reducing the stresses in the resultant glass ceramic article. Accordingly, the glass ceramic articles made according to the various embodiments described herein exhibit improved optical qualities and less warp than glass ceramic articles made according to conventional processes. Various embodiments of carrier plates, setter plates, parting agent compositions, and methods of stacking glass sheets are described.

A method for producing a curved laminated glazing, for a windscreen or roof of a motor vehicle includes providing a first glass sheet, coated on at least one part of one of its faces with a stack of thin layers, depositing, on one part of the surface of the stack of thin layers in a zone to be cleared, a washable dissolving layer, a pre-firing after which the stack of thin layers located under the washable dissolving layer is dissolved by the washable dissolving layer, creating a cleared zone, the removal of the washable dissolving layer by washing, the deposit, at least on one part of the cleared zone, of an opaque mineral layer, the curving of the first glass sheet and of an additional glass sheet, together or separately, and the laminating of the first glass sheet with an additional glass sheet using a lamination interlayer.

A method includes forming a glass article. The glass article includes a core and a clad adjacent to the core. The core includes a first glass composition. The clad includes a second glass composition different than the first glass composition. A degradation rate of the second glass composition in a reagent is greater than a degradation rate of the first glass composition in the reagent.

A substrate includes two main faces defining two main surfaces separated by edges, the substrate bearing a functional coating deposited on at least one portion of one main surface and a temporary protective layer deposited on at least one portion of the functional coating. The temporary protective layer, cured by drying, by UV irradiation or by an electron beam, has a thickness of at least 1 micrometer and is not soluble in water. This temporary protective layer is obtained from a liquid composition including (meth)acrylate compounds selected from monomers, oligomers, prepolymers or polymers including at least one (meth)acrylate function.

A method for producing a device substrate by obtaining a laminate comprising a carrier substrate, a first polyimide film comprising a first polyimide resin disposed on at least one surface of the carrier substrate, a second polyimide film disposed on the first polyimide film opposite to the surface of the first polyimide film formed on a surface of the carrier substrate; applying a physical stimulus to the second polyimide film without causing chemical changes in the first polyimide film such that the cross-sections of the second polyimide film are exposed and cross-sectional surfaces of the first polyimide film are not exposed and no physical stimulus is applied to the surface of the carrier substrate, wherein the adhesive strength of the first polyimide to the second polyimide film decreases when the second polyimide film in the laminate is cut to expose cross-sectional surfaces of the second polyimide film; and separating the second polyimide film from the first polyimide film formed on the carrier substrate to obtain the device.

A method includes heating a glass preform having a plurality of glass layers and drawing the glass preform in a distal direction to form a drawn glass sheet extending distally from the glass preform and having the plurality of glass layers. The drawn glass sheet is thinner than the glass preform. The drawn glass sheet can be rolled onto a collection spool. At least a portion of a glass layer can be removed from the drawn glass sheet. An exemplary glass sheet includes a first glass layer, a second glass layer adjacent to the first glass layer, and a thickness of at most about 0.1 mm. An exemplary ion exchanged glass sheet includes a thickness of at most about 0.1 mm and a surface layer that is under a compressive stress and extends into an interior of the glass sheet to a depth of layer.

A substrate coated with a stack of layers includes the following series of layers, starting from the surface of the substrate: a layer of diamond-like carbon DLC; a germanium or germanium oxide layer having a thickness of between 2 and 40 nm, the germanium or germanium oxide layer including less than 20% tin; and optionally, an oxygen barrier layer.