Saint-Gobain Glass France

Christian Bernhard Petersen

Jean-Christophe Giron

Nicolas Nadaud

Andriy Kharchenko

Jean-Paul Rousseau

Antje Jung

Martin Melcher

A process for manufacturing glazing including a substrate provided with a coating including a layer consisting of a porous material, includes depositing on the substrate, via a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process in a vacuum chamber, a coating including a layer of a material including an element selected from Si, Ti, Sn, Al, Zr, In or a mixture of at least two of these elements, oxygen and carbon, the layer in addition optionally including hydrogen, heat treatment of the layer thus deposited, under conditions that enable at least one portion of the carbon to be removed and the layer of porous material to be obtained, wherein the deposition is carried out, on the substrate passing through the chamber, by the sputtering of a carbon target, under a reactive plasma atmosphere including a precursor of the element or elements.

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Aachen, Germany

Christian Bernhard Petersen