Corning Incorporated

3m Innovative Properties Company

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Corning Incorprated

La Corporation De I'ecole Polytechnique De Montreal

Shandon Dee Hart

Karl William Koch, Iii

James Joseph Price

Charles Andrew Paulson

Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams

Robert Alan Bellman

Guangli Hu

Lin Lin

Jaymin Amin

Heather Bossard Decker

Jacques Gollier

James Andrew West

Wageesha Senaratne

Chandan Kumar Saha

Yoel Fink

Lu Zhang

Kelvin Nguyen

Paul Arthur Sachenik

Alexandre Michel Mayolet

John T Cowher

David B Olson

Brant Ulrick Kolb

Patrick R Fleming

Clinton L Jones

Kaveh Adib

Emily S Goenner

William Allen Wood

Nicholas James Smith

Alan Thomas Stephens, Ii

Michael F Weber

John Dimitris Joannopoulos

Prantik Mazumder

Robert L Brott

William J Kopecky

Robert George Manley

Jason Thomas Harris

Joseph Edward McCarthy

Andrew John Ouderkirk

Charlene Marie Smith

Kenneth A Epstein

Ljerka Ukrainczyk

Carl A Stover

David L Weidman

Kristopher J Derks

Keith Michael Kotchick

Jiangwei Feng

Mark B O'Neill

Xu Ouyang

Florence Christine Monique Verrier

Huiwen Tai

Ananthanarayanan Subramanian

Dong-gun Moon

John F Van Derlofske, Iii

David J Lamb

Fabien Sorin

Burak Temelkuran

Ellen Marie Kosik Williams

Gregory L Bluem

Dana Craig Bookbinder

Ming-Jun Li

Pushkar Tandon

Scott Robertson Bickham

Richard John Pokorny

Rostislav Vatchev Roussev

Olester Benson, Jr

Garrett Andrew Piech

Natesan Venkataraman

William James Miller

Gary Timothy Boyd

Vitor Marino Schneider

Timothy James Kiczenski

James M Jonza

Mark Alejandro Quesada

John P Baetzold

Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov

David G Freier

Weijun Niu

Robert Sabia

Leland Ray Whitney

Eric Wayne Nelson

Charles David Hoyle

John T Keech

Kristin LaVelle Thunhorst

Rui Zhang

Bruce Brandon Wilson

Thomas J Ludemann

Carsten Franke

Wade D Kretman

Jie Zhou

Jeffrey A Peterson

James William Zimmermann

Margaret M Vogel-Martin

Bert T Chien

David John McEnroe

Joan M Strobel

Ludvik Martinu

Byung-Soo Ko

Yuji Saito

Daniel J Zillig

David C Kramlich

Embodiments of durable, anti-reflective articles are described. In one or more embodiments, the article includes a substrate and an anti-reflective coating disposed on the major surface. The article exhibits an average light transmittance of about 94% or greater over an optical wavelength regime and/or an average light reflectance of about 2% or less over the optical wavelength regime, as measured from an anti-reflective surface. In some embodiments, the article exhibits a maximum hardness of about 8 GPa or greater as measured by a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test along an indentation depth of about 50 nm or greater and a b* value, in reflectance, in the range from about −5 to about 1 as measured on the anti-reflective surface only at all incidence illumination angles in the range from about 0 degrees to about 60 degrees under an International Commission on Illumination illuminant.

Durable anti-reflective articles

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.

Hardened optical windows for LIDAR applications at 850-950NM

A display article is described herein that includes: a substrate comprising a thickness and a primary surface; a textured surface region; and an antireflective coating disposed on the textured surface region. The textured surface region comprises structural features and an average texture height (R) from 50 nm to 300 nm. The substrate exhibits a sparkle of less than 5%, as measured by PPD, and a transmittance haze of less than 40%, at a 0° incident angle. The antireflective coating comprises alternating high refractive index and low refractive index layers. Each of the low index layers comprises a refractive index of less than or equal to 1.8, and each of the high index layers comprises a refractive index of greater than 1.8. The article also exhibits a first-surface average photopic specular reflectance (% R) of less than 0.3% at any incident angle from about 5° to 20° from normal at visible wavelengths.

Display articles with antiglare surfaces and thin, durable antireflection coatings

A display article is described herein that includes: a substrate comprising a thickness and a primary surface; and the primary surface having defined thereon a diffractive surface region. The diffractive surface region comprises a plurality of structural features that comprises a plurality of different heights in a multimodal distribution. Further, the substrate exhibits a sparkle of less than 4%, as measured by pixel power deviation (PPD) at an incident angle of 0° from normal, a distinctness of image (DOI) of less than 80% at an incident angle of 20° from normal, and a transmittance haze of less than 20% from an incident angle of 0° from normal.

Display articles with diffractive, antiglare surfaces and methods of making the same

A transparent article is described herein that includes: a glass-ceramic substrate comprising first and second primary surfaces opposing one another and a crystallinity of at least 40% by weight; and an optical film structure disposed on the first primary surface. The optical film structure comprises a plurality of alternating high refractive index (RI) and low RI layers and a scratch-resistant layer. The article also exhibits an average photopic transmittance of greater than 80% and a maximum hardness of greater than 10 GPa, as measured by a Berkovich Hardness Test over an indentation depth range from about 100 nm to about 500 nm. The glass-ceramic substrate comprises an elastic modulus of greater than 85 GPa and a fracture toughness of greater than 0.8 MPa·√m. Further, the optical film structure exhibits a residual compressive stress of ≥700 MPa and an elastic modulus of ≥140 GPa.

Transparent glass-ceramic articles with retained strength and display devices with the same

A glass-based assembly includes a glass substrate and a coating layer coupled to the glass substrate. Ultimate strength of the glass substrate with the coating layer overlaying and coupled thereto is greater than that of the glass substrate alone, without the coating layer.

Coating of glass-based assembly

A substrate for a display article includes (a) a primary surface; and (b) a textured region on at least a portion of the primary surface, the textured region comprising: (i) one or more higher surfaces residing at a higher mean elevation parallel to a base-plane disposed below the textured region and extending through the substrate; (ii) one or more lower surfaces residing at a lower mean elevation parallel to the base-plane that is less than the higher mean elevation; and (iii) a high-index material disposed on each of the one or more lower surfaces residing at the lower mean elevation, the high-index material forming one or more intermediate surfaces residing at an intermediate mean elevation parallel to the base-plane that is greater than the lower mean elevation but less than the higher mean elevation, the high-index material comprising an index of refraction that is greater than the index of refraction of the substrate.

Textured region to reduce specular reflectance including a low refractive index substrate with higher elevated surfaces and lower elevated surfaces and a high refractive index material disposed on the lower elevated surfaces

Disclosed herein are coated articles which may include a substrate and an optical coating that includes one or more layers of deposited material. At least a portion of the optical coating may include a residual compressive stress of more than 100 MPa. The coated article may include a strain-to-failure of 0.4% or more as measured by a Ring-on-Ring Tensile Testing Procedure. The optical coating may include a maximum hardness of 8 GPa or more and an average photopic transmission of 50% or greater.

Coated articles with optical coatings having residual compressive stress

Durable and scratch resistant articles including low-reflectance optical coating with gradient portion. In some embodiments, an article comprises: a substrate comprising a first major surface; and an optical coating disposed over the first major surface. The optical coating comprises: a second major surface; a thickness; and a first gradient portion. A refractive index of the optical coating varies along a thickness of the optical coating. The difference between the maximum refractive index of the first gradient portion and the minimum refractive index of the first gradient portion is 0.05 or greater. The absolute value of the slope of the refractive index of the first gradient portion is 0.1/nm or less everywhere along the thickness of the first gradient portion. The article exhibits a single side photopic average light reflectance of 3% or less, and a maximum hardness from 10 GPa to 30 GPa.

Hybrid gradient-interference hardcoatings

Embodiments of articles including a low-contrast anti-reflection coating are disclosed. The coated surface of such articles exhibits a reduced difference in reflectance between a pristine state and when a surface defect is present. In one or more embodiments, the coated surface of such articles exhibits a first average reflectance in the range from about 0.6% to about 6.0% in a pristine condition and a second average reflectance of about 8% or less after removal of a surface thickness of the anti-reflection coating. In other embodiments, the coated substrate exhibits a second average reflectance of about 10% or less, when the coated surface comprises a contaminant. In some embodiments, the coated substrate exhibits a first color coordinate (a*, b*) in a pristine condition and a second color coordinate (a*, b*) after the presence of a surface defect such that Δa*b* is about 6 or less.

Low contrast anti-reflection articles with reduced scratch and fingerprint visibility

Embodiments of an enclosure including a substrate having an anti-fingerprint surface are disclosed. The anti-fingerprint surface may include a textured surface, a coated surface or a coated textured surface that exhibits a low fingerprint visibility, when a fingerprint is applied to the anti-fingerprint surface. In one or more embodiments, the enclosure exhibits any one of the following attributes (1) radio, and microwave frequency transparency, as defined by a loss tangent of less than 0.03 and at a frequency range of between 15 MHz to 3.0 GHz; (2) infrared transparency; (3) a fracture toughness of greater than 0.6 MPa·m; (4) a 4-point bend strength of greater than 350 MPa; (5) a Vickers hardness of at least 450 kgf/mmand a Vickers median/radial crack initiation threshold of at least 5 kgf; (6) a Young's Modulus in the range from about 50 GPa to about 100 GPa; and (7) a thermal conductivity of less than 2.0 W/m° C.

Enclosures having an anti-fingerprint surface

According to one or more embodiments described herein, a coated article may comprise: a transparent substrate having a major surface, the major surface comprising a textured or rough surface inducing light scattering; and an optical coating disposed on the major surface of the transparent substrate and forming an air-side surface, the optical coating comprising one or more layers of material, the optical coating having a physical thickness of greater than 300 nm, wherein the coated article exhibits a maximum hardness of about 10 GPa or greater as measured on the air-side surface by a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test along an indentation depth of about 50 nm or greater.

Coated articles with light-altering features and methods for the production thereof

A composite has repeating domains of an inorganic glass and a polymer, such that the inorganic glass and the polymer each have a glass transition temperature (T) or softening temperature of less than 450° C., and at least 50% of the inorganic glass domains have a length of less than 30 μm as measured along at least one cross-sectional dimension.

Organic-inorganic composites and methods of manufacturing thereof

An article is described herein that includes: a glass-based substrate comprising opposing major surfaces; a crack mitigating composite over one of the major surfaces, the composite comprising an inorganic element and a polymeric element; and a hard film disposed on the crack mitigating composite comprising an elastic modulus greater than or equal to the elastic modulus of the glass-based substrate. The crack mitigating composite is characterized by an elastic modulus of greater than 30 GPa. Further, the hard film comprises at least one of a metal-containing oxide, a metal-containing oxynitride, a metal-containing nitride, a metal-containing carbide, a silicon-containing polymer, a carbon, a semiconductor, and combinations thereof.

Glass-based articles having a hard film and a crack mitigating composite structure for retained article strength and scratch resistance

A display article is described herein that includes: a substrate comprising a thickness and primary surface; a diffractive surface region defined by the primary surface; and an antireflective coating disposed on the diffractive surface region. The diffractive surface region comprises structural features that comprise different heights in a multimodal distribution. The substrate exhibits a sparkle of <4%, and a transmittance haze of <20%, each from an incident angle of 0°. The antireflection coating comprises a plurality of alternating high refractive index and low refractive index layers. Further, each of the low index layers comprises a refractive index of ≤about 1.8, and each of the high index layers comprises a refractive index of >1.8. The article exhibits a first-surface average visible specular reflectance of less than 0.2% at an incident angle of 20°, and a maximum hardness of ≥8 GPa in a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test.

Display articles with diffractive, antiglare surfaces and thin, durable antireflection coatings

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