Hybrid coating stack

• US 7,648,768 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2007
• Issued: 01/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vitro Flat Glass LLC (Compagnie De Saint-Gobain)
• Original Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio Incorporated (Nouryon BV)
• Inventors: Thiel, James P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Speer; Timothy M
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROBINSON, LAUREN E
• Application Number:
  US11/756,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20070281184A1
• Time in Patent Office: 963 Days
• Field of Search: 428/432, 428/469, 428/697, 428/699, 428/702, 427/419.2
• US Class Current: 428/432
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10005 laminated safety glass or glazing
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10174 Coatings of a metallic or dielectric material on a constituent layer of glass or polymer
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 17/10761 containing vinyl acetal
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2367/00 Polyesters, e.g. PET, i.e. polyethylene terephthalate
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/36 at least one coating being a metal
• 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 2217/734 comprising an alternation of high and low refractive indexes

Abstract

A coating includes a functional coating, such as a solar control coating having at least one metal layer. A topcoat is formed over at least a portion of the functional coating. The topcoat includes a first topcoat layer having a thickness in the range of 0.5 QWOT to 1.5 QWOT with respect to a reference wavelength of 550 nm and a first refractive index, and a second topcoat layer having a thickness in the range of 0.5 QWOT to 1.5 QWOT with respect to a reference wavelength of 550 nm and a second refractive index different from the first refractive index.

Claims

1. A coating, comprising:

a functional coating comprising;

a first dielectric layer comprising a first layer having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.1 to 1, and a second layer having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.1 to 1;

a first infrared reflective metal layer having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.005 to 0.1; and

a second dielectric layer comprising a first layer having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.05 to 0.5 and a second layer having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.1 to 1.5; and

a topcoat formed over at least a portion of the functional coating, the topcoat comprising;

a first topcoat layer comprising silica having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.5 to 1.5 with respect to a wavelength of 550 nm; and

a second topcoat layer comprising zinc stannate having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.5 to 1.5 with respect to a wavelength of 550nm, and

wherein the topcoat is sufficiently thick so as to affect the optical properties of the coating.

2. The coating of claim 1, wherein the metal layer includes at least one of gold, copper, silver, or mixtures, alloys, or combinations including at least one thereof.

3. The coating of claim 1, wherein the refractive index of the first topcoat layer differs from the refractive index of the second topcoat layer by a value in the range of 0.2 to 1.0.

4. The coating of claim 1, wherein the first layer of the first dielectric layer comprises at least one oxide of zinc, tin, or alloys or mixtures thereof, the second layer of the first dielectric layer comprises at least one oxide of zinc, tin, or alloys or mixtures thereof, the metal layer comprises silver, the first layer of the second dielectric layer comprises at least one oxide of zinc, tin, or alloys or mixtures thereof, and the second layer of the second dielectric layer comprises at least one oxide of zinc, tin, or alloys or mixtures thereof.

5. The coating of claim 1, wherein the topcoat further comprises a third topcoat layer having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.5 to 1 with respect to a reference wavelength of 550 nm and a refractive index different from the second refractive index.

6. The coating of claim 5, wherein the third topcoat layer comprises silicon dioxide.

7. A coated article, comprising:

a substrate; and

a coating as defined in claim 1 deposited over at least a portion of the substrate.

8. The coating of claim 1, wherein the topcoat is sufficiently thick so as to provide a region of enhanced solar reflectance in the near solar infrared region adjacent the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

9. A method of providing a coated article having a region of enhanced solar reflectance in the near solar infrared region adjacent the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum, comprising:

providing a substrate; and

forming a coating as defined in claim 1 over at least a portion of the substrate.

10. A coated article, comprising:

a glass substrate; and

a coating deposited over at least a portion of the substrate, the coating comprising;

a functional coating comprising;

a first dielectric layer comprising a first layer comprising zinc stannate having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.1 to 1, and a second layer comprising zinc oxide having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.1 to 1;

a first infrared reflective metal layer comprising silver having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.005 to 0.1; and

a second dielectric layer comprising a first layer comprising zinc oxide having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.05 to 0.5 and a second layer comprising zinc stannate having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.1 to 1.5; and

a topcoat comprising a first topcoat layer and a second topcoat layer,

wherein the first topcoat layer comprises silica having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.5 to 1.5 with respect to a reference wavelength of 550 nm, and

wherein the second topcoat layer comprises zinc stannate having a quarter wave optical thickness in the range of 0.5 to 1.5 with respect to a wavelength of 550 nm.

11. The coated article of claim 10, further comprising a second substrate laminated to the first substrate.