The invention concerns a glazing comprising a first glass sheet having a surface; a printed layer on a part of the surface of the first glass sheet; a conductive coating on a part of the printed layer forming a coated print portion and on a part of the surface of the first glass sheet forming a coated glass portion; first and second busbars in electrical contact with the conductive coating and comprising a first or second busbar portion arranged on a different axis therefrom; a first printed layer portion adjacent the first or second busbar portion forming an adjustable coated print portion between the first and second busbars.

A method for fabricating an external element or a timepiece dial from non-conductive material, by performing or repeating a basic cycle of making a base from a non-conductive, or ceramic, or glass. or sapphire substrate; dry coating the base with a first sacrificial protective metal layer; etching a decoration with an ultrashort pulse laser to a depth at least equal to the local thickness of the first layer; dry coating the decoration and the remaining part of the first layer with a second metal and/or coloured decorative treatment layer; chemically removing each first layer; and before or after chemical removal of each first layer, mechanically levelling on the upper level of the base the compound thus formed.

A method for treating a coating on a scrolling substrate by a treatment unit generating a laser beam, the method including producing a pattern including several lines or portions extending in the scrolling direction and/or the direction orthogonal to the scrolling direction, the pattern being repeated to cover treat the surface of the substrate.

A device for heat treating a coating deposited on a substrate includes a treatment module opposite which the substrate runs, the treatment module including a laser source generating a laser beam of energy, a splitter module to split the beam into a multitude of secondary beams, having an energy En to treat the coating, that have the form of a point, a scanner allowing each secondary beam to be displaced in the running direction according to a first amplitude and first velocity and/or in a direction orthogonal to the running direction according to second amplitude and second velocity; and a displacement system to create, in operation, a relative displacement movement between the substrate and the or each treatment module.

Disclosed herein are glass articles coated on at least one surface with an electrochromic layer and comprising minimal regions of laser damage, and methods for laser processing such glass articles. Insulated glass units comprising such coated glass articles are also disclosed herein.

An article includes a substrate with two main faces defining two main surfaces separated by edges, the substrate carrying a functional coating deposited over at least a portion of a main surface and a temporary protective layer deposited over at least a portion of the coating. The temporary protective layer has a thickness of at least 1 micrometer. The temporary protective layer made of polyfuran resin is obtained from a liquid composition comprising furfuryl alcohol.

Disclosed herein are methods for making a thin film device and/or for reducing warp in a thin film device, the methods comprising applying at least one metal film to a convex surface of a glass substrate, wherein the glass substrate is substantially dome-shaped. Other methods disclosed include methods of determining the concavity of a glass sheet. The method includes determining the orientation of the concavity and measuring a magnitude of the edge lift of the sheet when the sheet is supported by a flat surface and acted upon by gravity. Thin film devices made according to these methods and display devices comprising such thin film devices are also disclosed herein.

Provided is a transparent conductive film-equipped substrate that makes it difficult for an insulating film provided on a portion from which a transparent conductive film has been removed to peel off. The transparent conductive film-equipped substrate 10 includes a substrate 1 and a transparent conductive film 2 provided on the substrate 1 and subjected to patterning, wherein the transparent conductive film-equipped substrate is made up so that: a removal region A1 where the transparent conductive film 2 has been removed by patterning, a non-removal region A2 where the transparent conductive film is left unremoved, and a boundary region A3 provided between the removal region A1 and the non-removal region A2 are formed on the substrate 1; and the boundary region A3 is formed with insular portions 2b in which the transparent conductive film 2 is formed in insular shapes.

Disclosed herein are graphene coatings characterized by a porous, three-dimensional, spherical structure having a hollow core, along with methods for forming such graphene coatings on glasses, glass-ceramics, ceramics, and crystalline materials. Such coatings can be further coated with organic or inorganic layers and are useful in chemical and electronic applications.

Embodiments of a article including include a substrate and a patterned coating are provided. In one or more embodiments, when a strain is applied to the article, the article exhibits a failure strain of 0.5% or greater. Patterned coating may include a particulate coating or may include a discontinuous coating. The patterned coating of some embodiments may cover about 20% to about 75% of the surface area of the substrate. Methods for forming such articles are also provided.