Ppg Industries Ohio, Inc.

Ppg Industries, Inc.

Larry A Miller

Mehran Arbab

James J Finley

Russell C Criss

Paul A Medwick

Gary J Marietti

Thomas J Waynar

Multilayer high transmittance, low emissivity coatings on transparent substrates feature a special antireflective base film of at least two parts on the substrate-near side of a metallic, reflective film. A first of the two parts is in contact with the metallic film. This first film-part has crystalline properties for causing the metallic film to deposit in a low resistivity configuration. The second of the two film-parts supports the first part and is preferably amorphous. Coated articles of the invention also feature, in combination with the above-mentioned base film or independently thereof, a newly discovered, particularly advantageous subrange of thicker primer films for coated glass that can be thermally processed for tempering, heat strengthening, or bending.

Coated articles

A layer for protecting an underlying functional coating stack for example a single silver layer or double silver layer Low-E coating stack includes silicon oxynitride or silicon aluminum oxynitride layer. The protective film may have a uniform composition throughout its thickness i.e. homogeneous protective layer, a constantly increasing or decreasing index of infraction throughout its thickness i.e. a graded protective layer, or a combination of all or some of the foregoing i.e. a non-homogeneous protective layer. The graded and non-homogeneous layers may have an outer surface of silicon nitride, silicon aluminum nitride, silicon dioxide, silicon oxynitride or silicon aluminum oxynitride. The protective layer of the invention may be the last layer deposited on the functional coating stack or may have a film deposited thereon.

Silicon oxynitride protective coatings

A low emissivity coated article comprising a glass substrate and a coating comprising a layer of infrared reflective metal between layers of antireflective metal oxide is heated to a temperature below the strain point of the substrate for a sufficient time to anneal the coating without affecting the substrate to improve the chemical and mechanical durability of the coating.

Annealed low emissivity coating

A method for bonding silicon-containing compositions to metal surfaces is disclosed wherein a coarse silicon-containing surface is arc-sprayed with a first adhesive layer, a second solderable layer, and a third solder layer, and the arc-sprayed surface is then soldered to the metal surface. The method is particularly useful for producing silicon-containing targets for cathode sputtering.

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Sarver, PA, United States of America

Larry A Miller