Transparent glass substrate having antiglare surface

• US 9,573,842 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2012
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Corning Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Corning Incorporated
• Inventors: Gollier, Jacques, Hart, Shandon Dee, Stephens, Alan Thomas II, West, James Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Won, Bumsuk
• Assistant Examiner(s): MADONNA, JEFFREY E
• Application Number:
  US13/466,390
• Publication Number:
  US 20120300304A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,750 Days
• Field of Search: 359577-590, 359601-615
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 15/00 Surface treatment of glass, not in the form of fibres or filaments, by etching etching or surface-brightening compositions, in general C09K13/00
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 21/002 to perform ion-exchange between alkali ions C03C21/005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2204/08 Glass having a rough surface
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 1/118 having sub-optical wavelength surface structures designed to provide an enhanced transmittance, e.g. moth-eye structures

Abstract

A transparent glass substrate having an antiglare surface that minimizes sparkle. The antiglare surface has a roughened portion that surface that has a RMS amplitude of at least amplitude of at least about 80 nm. The antiglare surface may also include a portion that is unroughened, or flat. The fraction of the antiglare surface that is roughened is at least about 0.9, and the fraction of the surface that is unroughened is less than about 0.10. The antiglare surface has a pixel power deviation of less than about 7%.

Claims

1. A transparent glass substrate having an antiglare surface, the antiglare surface comprising:

a roughened surface, the roughened surface having a roughness and an RMS amplitude of at least about 80 nm; and

a frequency cutoff of less than about [1/(0.081·

RMS)], wherein the frequency cutoff is a frequency ν

at which the power spectral density of the roughness falls below 1/e² and is expressed in 1/microns (μ

m<sup>−

1</sup>) and RMS is the RMS amplitude of the roughened surface, expressed in nanometers.

2. The transparent glass substrate of claim 1, wherein the antiglare surface further includes an unroughened surface portion, wherein the unroughened surface portion forms a fraction of the antiglare surface of up to about 0.2, and wherein the roughened surface forms a remaining fraction of the antiglare surface.

3. The transparent glass substrate of claim 2, wherein the fraction of the antiglare surface formed by the unroughened surface portion is less than or equal to about 0.1.

4. The transparent glass substrate of claim 1, wherein the antiglare surface is integral to the transparent glass substrate.

5. The transparent glass substrate of claim 1, wherein the antiglare surface, when placed in front of a pixelated display at an optical distance D, expressed in millimeters, the pixelated display having a plurality of pixels having a pixel pitch P expressed in microns, has a cutoff period, wherein the cutoff period is the inverse of the cutoff frequency ν

and is expressed in microns, of greater than [(280/P)·

(0.098·

RMS−

5.55)·

D/3].

6. The transparent glass substrate of claim 1, wherein the antiglare surface, when placed in front of a pixelated display having a plurality of pixels, has a pixel power deviation of less than about 7%.

7. The transparent glass substrate of claim 1, wherein the antiglare surface has a distinctness of reflected image of less than about 90%.

8. The transparent glass substrate of claim 1, wherein the antiglare surface has a transmission haze of less than about 20%.

9. The transparent glass substrate of claim 1, wherein the transparent glass substrate comprises an alkali aluminosilicate glass.

10. The transparent glass substrate of claim 1, wherein the transparent glass substrate is ion exchanged.

11. The transparent glass substrate of claim 1, wherein the transparent glass substrate is a cover glass for a pixelated display.

12. A display assembly, the display assembly comprising:

a pixelated display, the pixelated display comprising a plurality of pixels having a pixel pitch; and

a transparent glass substrate having an antiglare surface, wherein the transparent glass substrate is disposed in front of the pixelated display and separated from the pixelated display by an optical distance D, expressed in millimeters, wherein the antiglare surface is opposite a surface of the transparent glass substrate facing the pixelated display, wherein the antiglare surface has a roughened surface, the roughened surface having an RMS amplitude of at least about 80 nm, and wherein the roughened surface has a cutoff frequency, wherein the cutoff frequency is a frequency ν

at which the power spectral density of the roughness falls below 1/e² and is expressed in 1/microns (μ

m<sup>−

1</sup>), of greater than [(280/P)·

(0.098·

RMS−

5.55)·

D/3], wherein each of the plurality of pixels having a pixel pitch P, expressed in microns, and RMS is the RMS amplitude of the roughened surface, expressed in nanometers.

13. The display assembly of claim 12, wherein the cutoff frequency is greater than about 1/50 microns⁻

1.

14. The display assembly of claim 12, wherein the antiglare surface has a pixel power deviation of less than about 7%.

15. The display assembly of claim 12, wherein the antiglare surface further includes an unroughened surface portion, wherein the unroughened surface portion forms a fraction of the antiglare surface of up to about 0.2, and wherein the roughened surface forms a remaining fraction of the antiglare surface.

16. The display assembly of claim 15, wherein the fraction of the antiglare surface formed by the unroughened surface portion is less than or equal to about 0.1.

17. The display assembly of claim 12, wherein the antiglare surface is integral to the transparent glass substrate.

18. The display assembly of claim 12, wherein the antiglare surface has a distinctness of image of less than about 90%.

19. The display assembly of claim 12, wherein the antiglare surface has a transmission haze of less than about 20%.

20. The display assembly of claim 12, wherein the transparent glass substrate comprises an alkali aluminosilicate glass.

21. The display assembly of claim 12, wherein the transparent glass substrate is ion exchanged.