PROCESS FOR MAKING OF GLASS ARTICLES WITH OPTICAL AND EASY-TO-CLEAN COATINGS
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1. A process for vacuum depositing without breaking vacuum an optical coating and an easy-to-clean (ETC) coating onto a glass substrate, the process comprising:
- providing a coating apparatus having an optical coating chamber for deposition of at least one optical coating and an ETC coating chamber for deposition of an ETC coating;
introducing a horizontally-oriented glass substrate to be coated into the optical coating chamber under a pressure of less than or equal to 10−
4 Torr, the glass substrate having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a thickness between the first surface and the second surface,depositing at least one optical coating onto the substrate;
transferring the substrate to the ETC coating chamber without breaking vacuum;
reorienting the substrate in the ETC coating chamber such that the substrate is vertically-oriented;
depositing an ETC coating on the at least one optical coating; and
removing the substrate from the coating apparatus to provide a glass article having the optical coating formed thereon and the ETC coating formed on the optical coating.
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Abstract
A process in which both an optical coating, for example, an AR coating, and an ETC coating are deposited on a glass substrate article, in sequential steps, with the optical coating being deposited first and the ETC coating being deposited second, using the same apparatus and without exposing the article to the atmosphere at any time during the application of the optical coating and ETC coating.
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1. A process for vacuum depositing without breaking vacuum an optical coating and an easy-to-clean (ETC) coating onto a glass substrate, the process comprising:
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providing a coating apparatus having an optical coating chamber for deposition of at least one optical coating and an ETC coating chamber for deposition of an ETC coating; introducing a horizontally-oriented glass substrate to be coated into the optical coating chamber under a pressure of less than or equal to 10−
4 Torr, the glass substrate having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a thickness between the first surface and the second surface,depositing at least one optical coating onto the substrate; transferring the substrate to the ETC coating chamber without breaking vacuum; reorienting the substrate in the ETC coating chamber such that the substrate is vertically-oriented; depositing an ETC coating on the at least one optical coating; and removing the substrate from the coating apparatus to provide a glass article having the optical coating formed thereon and the ETC coating formed on the optical coating. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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