MIRROR

• US 20140240858A1
• Filed: 10/19/2012
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AGC Glass Europe SA (AGC, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AGC Glass Europe SA (AGC, Inc.)
• Inventors: Boucher, Nicolas, Clement, Nicolas, Cosijns, Bruno, Lambricht, Thomas, De Maeyer, Barbara, Proost, Joris
• Application Number:
  US14/353,208
• Publication Number:
  US 20140240858A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/838
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3663 specially adapted for use as mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/38 at least one coating being a coating of an organic material
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2218/31 Pre-treatment
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2218/32 After-treatment
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0808 having a single reflecting layer G02B5/0883, G02B5/0891 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/085 at least one of the reflecting layers comprising metal
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0875 the reflecting layers comprising two or more metallic layers

Abstract

The invention relates to a mirror including a glass substrate covered with a silver layer, which is in turn covered with at least one paint layer, wherein the intensity ratio of the crystallographic orientations (111)/(200) within the silver layer is less than 5.0. Said mirror is characterized in that the silver layer has a correlation length (CLz) (111), as measured by X-ray diffraction using the Scherrer method (i.e., using the Scherrer equation) of greater than 27.0 nm.

Claims

1. :

A mirror, comprising;

a glass substrate covered with a silver layer that is covered with at least one paint layer,

wherein

an intensity ratio of crystallographic orientations (111)/(200) within the silver layer is less than 5.0, and

the silver layer has a correlation length (111) measured by X-ray diffraction using the Scherrer method greater than 27.0 nm.

2. :

The mirror according to claim 1, wherein the silver layer has a correlation length (111) greater than 28.0 nm.

3. :

The mirror according to claim 1, wherein the silver layer has a correlation length (111) greater than 30.0 nm.

4. :

The mirror according to claim 1, wherein the substrate is a glass with a total iron content, expressed as Fe₂O₃, of less than 0.02% by wt.

5. :

The mirror according to claim 1, wherein the silver layer has a thickness of from 70 to 150 nm.

6. :

The mirror according to claim 1, wherein the mirror comprises no copper layer.

7. :

The mirror according to claim 1, further comprising;

tin present on a surface of the substrate on the silver layer side.

8. :

The mirror according to claim 1, further comprising;

at least one element selected from the group consisting of bismuth, chromium, gold, indium, nickel, palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, titanium, vanadium and zinc present on a surface of the substrate on the silver layer side.

9. :

The mirror according to claim 1, further comprising;

tin and palladium present on a surface of the substrate on the silver layer side.

10. :

The mirror according to claim 1, further comprising;

at least one element selected from the group consisting of tin, palladium, vanadium, titanium, iron, indium, copper, aluminium, chromium, lanthanum, nickel, europium, zinc, platinum, ruthenium, rhodium, sodium, zirconium, yttrium and cerium present on a surface of the silver layer on the at least one paint layer side.

11. :

The mirror according to claim 1, further comprising;

tin present on a surface of the silver layer on the at least one paint layer side.

12. :

The mirror according to claim 1, further comprising;

traces of silane present on a surface of the silver layer on the at least one paint layer side.