Substrate provided with antireflection films and its production method

• US 6,570,709 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2001
• Issued: 05/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited (AGC, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited (AGC, Inc.)
• Inventors: Maekawa, Mikako, Shidoji, Eiji, Kimura, Yukio, Noda, Kazuyoshi, Katayama, Yoshihito
• Primary Examiner(s): Juba, Jr., John
• Application Number:
  US09/912,362
• Publication Number:
  US 20020051294A1
• Time in Patent Office: 670 Days
• Field of Search: 359/580, 359/581, 359/586
• US Class Current: 359/586
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3417 all coatings being oxide coatings
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3435 comprising a nitride, oxynitride, boronitride or carbonitride
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3441 comprising carbon, a carbide or oxycarbide
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2217/734 comprising an alternation of high and low refractive indexes
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 1/115 Multilayers

Abstract

The present invention provides a substrate with antireflection films, which has excellent antireflection properties to incident light at an oblique angle from the film face side and high transmittance. Moreover, the antireflection films of the present invention provide a reflection color tone that does not tend to be bluish. This object is achieved where the substrate with antireflection films comprises a transparent substrate and at least two antireflection film layers deposited on one side of the transparent substrate as described herein.

Claims

1. A substrate provided with antireflection films, which comprises a transparent substrate and two or three antireflection film layers deposited on one side of the transparent substrate in an order in which the first layer is deposited on one side of the transparent substrate, the second layer is deposited on the first layer on the side distal to the transparent substrate, and the third layer, when present, is deposited on the second layer on the side distal to the first layer,

wherein the reflectance on the film face of light incident at an angle of incidence of 5°

from the film face side is at most 6% at the entire wavelength region ranging from 400 to 480 nm, and

wherein the first layer is a thin film having a refractive index of from 1.6 to 2.6 and a geometrical film thickness of from 1.1 to 1.9 times the film thickness as an antireflection condition as obtained from the following formula; and

the second layer is a thin film having a refractive index of from 1.4 to 1.56 and a geometrical film thickness of from 0.5 to 1.1 times the film thickness as an antireflection condition as obtained from the following formula;

2. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, wherein

the first layer is a thin film having a refractive index of from 1.6 to 2.6 and a geometrical film thickness of from 60 to 200 nm;

and

the second layer is a thin film having a refractive index of from 1.4 to 1.56 and a geometrical film thickness of from 50 to 140 nm.

3. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, wherein the first layer is a thin film containing an oxide, an oxynitride or an oxycarbide of at least one element selected from the group consisting of titanium, silicon, zinc, aluminum, tin, zirconium, tantalum, tungsten, bismuth and niobium, or a nitride or a nitrogen carbide of at least one element selected from the group consisting of silicon, aluminum and boron.

4. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, wherein the second layer is a thin film containing an oxide of silicon.

5. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, wherein

the first layer is a tin oxynitride film having a geometrical film thickness of from 104 to

nm;

and

the second layer is a silicon oxide film having a geometrical film thickness of from 85 to 105 nm.

6. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, which comprises a transparent substrate and first, second and third antireflection film layers deposited in this order on one side of the transparent substrate,

wherein the first and second layers are thin films having compositions which are different from each other, each containing an oxide, an oxynitride or an oxycarbide of at least one element selected from the group consisting of titanium, silicon, zinc, aluminum, tin, zirconium, tantalum, tungsten, bismuth and niobium, or a nitride or a nitrogen carbide of at least one element selected from the group consisting of silicon, aluminum and boron.

7. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, which comprises a transparent substrate and first, second and third antireflection film layers deposited in this order on one side of the transparent substrate,

wherein the third layer is a thin film containing an oxide of silicon.

8. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, which comprises a transparent substrate and first, second and third antireflection film layers deposited in this order on one side of the transparent substrate,

wherein the total thickness of the three antireflection film layers (sum of the film thicknesses of the first, second and third layers) is less than 250 nm.

9. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, wherein each layer has an extinction coefficient of at most 0.05 at the visible light region.

10. A method for producing a substrate provided with antireflection films, which comprises subjecting the substrate provided with antireflection films as defined in claim 1 to a heat treatment to produce the substrate provided with antireflection films having bending or tempering applied thereto.

11. A method for producing a laminated glass, which comprises subjecting the substrate provided with antireflection films as defined in claim 1 wherein the transparent substrate is glass, to bending into a three-dimensional curved shape by a heat treatment, and laminating the glass substrate provided with antireflection films subjected to bending and another glass substrate having approximately the same shape by means of an intermediate film.

12. A window glass for an automobile which uses the substrate provided with antireflection films as defined in claim 1.

13. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, wherein the first layer is a tin oxynitride film having a nitrogen content ranging from 0 at % to 4 at %.

14. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, wherein the transparent substrate is glass or plastic.

15. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, wherein the transparent substrate is a glass selected from the group consisting of transparent float glass, colored float glass, transparent heat absorbing glass, and colored heat absorbing glass.

16. The substrate provided with antireflection films according to claim 1, wherein the transparent substrate is a plastic selected from the group consisting of transparent polycarbonate, colored polycarbonate, transparent polymethyl methacrylate, and colored polymethyl methacrylate.