Coated articles

• US 6,579,427 B1
• Filed: 10/09/1998
• Issued: 06/17/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Vitro Flat Glass LLC (Compagnie De Saint-Gobain)
• Original Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio Incorporated (Nouryon BV)
• Inventors: Miller, Larry A., Criss, Russell C., Arbab, Mehran
• Primary Examiner(s): MCDONALD, RODNEY GLENN
• Application Number:
  US09/169,490
• Time in Patent Office: 1,712 Days
• Field of Search: 204/192.26, 204/192.27, 204/192.28, 204/192.22
• US Class Current: 204/192.27
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/36 at least one coating being a metal
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3618 Coatings of type glass/inorganic compound/other inorganic layers, at least one layer being metallic
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3639 Multilayers containing at least two functional metal layers
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3642 the multilayer coating containing a metal layer
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3644 the metal being silver
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3652 the coating stack containing at least one sacrificial layer to protect the metal from oxidation
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/366 Low-emissivity or solar control coatings
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/3681 the multilayer coating being used in glazing, e.g. windows or windscreens
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2217/78 Coatings specially designed to be durable, e.g. scratch-resistant
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 1/10 Optical coatings produced by application to, or surface treatment of, optical elements G02B1/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 1/116 including electrically conducting layers
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/208 for use with infrared or ultraviolet radiation, e.g. for separating visible light from infrared and/or ultraviolet radiation
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/282 reflecting for infrared and transparent for visible light, e.g. heat reflectors, laser protection
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12549 Adjacent to each other
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12597 Noncrystalline silica or noncrystalline plural-oxide component [e.g., glass, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12611 Oxide-containing component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12618 Plural oxides
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12875 Platinum group metal-base component

Abstract

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.

Claims

1. A method of depositing a coating having an infrared reflecting film comprising the steps of:

providing a cathode defined as a first cathode which when sputtered in a non-reactive atmosphere deposits an infrared reflecting film having the possibility of two levels of resistivity, one level of resistivity higher than the other level of resistivity, the resistivity having a higher level provides an emissivity higher than the emissivity provided by the lower level of resistivity;

sputtering a metal cathode defined as a second cathode in an atmosphere having sufficient reactive gas to deposit a metal oxide film over a surface of a substrate, the metal oxide film having preferential crystal growth orientation to provide the infrared reflecting film having the lower level of resistivity, and

sputtering the first cathode in a non-reactive atmosphere to deposit an infrared reflecting metal film on the metal oxide film wherein the reflecting metal film deposited on the metal oxide film has the lower level of resistivity to provide a low emissivity coated article.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the infrared metal is silver and the silver film has {220} planes and {111} planes determined by the grazing-angle method wherein the peaks of the {220} planes are higher than the {111} planes.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the reactive gas is oxygen.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the atmosphere is 80% oxygen and remaining atmosphere is an inert gas.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the metal oxide film is zinc oxide.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein peaks for the {103} zinc oxide planes are higher than other index peaks.

7. The method of claim 1 further including the steps of:

depositing a metal oxide support film between the substrate and the metal oxide film;

depositing primer over the infrared reflecting layer;

depositing an antireflecting layer defined as a second antireflecting layer over the primer.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein at least one of the metal oxide support films or antireflective layer is zinc stannate.

9. The method of claim 7 further including the step of depositing an infrared reflecting metal over the antireflective layer, a primer layer over the second deposited infrared reflective metal layer and an antireflective layer over the second deposited primer layer.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the second antireflective layer includes a zinc stannate layer and a zinc oxide layer.