Glass having antiglare surface with low display sparkle

• US 9,701,579 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2012
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Corning Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Corning Incorporated
• Inventors: Zhang, Lu, Gollier, Jacques, Hart, Shandon Dee, Stephens, II, Alan Thomas, Nguyen, Kelvin, West, James Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Won, Bumsuk
• Assistant Examiner(s): Madonna, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US13/405,787
• Publication Number:
  US 20120218640A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,961 Days
• Field of Search: 359577-590, 359599, 359601-615
• 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 5/0215 the surface having a regular structure
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0294 adapted to provide an additional optical effect, e.g. anti-reflection or filter
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133331 Cover glasses
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133502 Antiglare, refractive index matching layers

Abstract

A glass article having a low level of grainy appearance that can appear to have a shift in the pattern of the grains with changing viewing angle of a display, or “sparkle.” The glass article—which, in some embodiments, is a transparent glass sheet—has small-angle-scattering properties and/or distinctness-of-reflected-image (DOI), leading to improved viewability in display applications, especially under high ambient lighting conditions. In some embodiments, the antiglare surface of the glass sheet is an etched surface, with no foreign coating present on the antiglare surface.

Claims

1. A transparent glass sheet, the transparent glass sheet having at least one antiglare surface, wherein the antiglare surface has:

a first RMS surface roughness Rlong of up to about 300 nm measured in a range of lateral spatial periods from about 40 μ

m to about 640 μ

m;

a second RMS surface roughness Rshort measured at lateral spatial periods of less than about 20 μ

m, wherein the ratio (Rlong/Rshort) is less than about 3.9; and

a third RMS roughness Rtotal, measured without surface wavelength filtering, wherein the third RMS roughness Rtotal is in a range from about 60 nm to about 600 nm, and wherein the transparent glass sheet has a pixel power deviation of less than about 7.5% when disposed in front of a pixelated display having a plurality of pixels and an imaging plane such that the antiglare surface is distal from the pixelated display and separated from the imaging plane by a predetermined distance, and wherein the transparent glass sheet has a 20°

distinctness of image of less than about 60.

2. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, wherein the transparent glass sheet has a 20°

distinctness of image of less than about 85.

3. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, wherein Rshort is at least about 30 nm.

4. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, wherein the transparent glass sheet has a transmission haze of less than about 20%.

5. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, wherein the transparent glass sheet is strengthened.

6. The transparent glass sheet of claim 5, wherein the transparent glass sheet is strengthened by ion exchange, and wherein the transparent glass sheet has at least one surface having a region under a compressive stress, the region extending from the surface to a depth of layer within the transparent glass sheet.

7. The transparent glass sheet of claim 6, wherein the compressive stress is at least about 350 MPa and the depth of layer is at least 15 μ

m.

8. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, wherein the transparent glass sheet comprises one of a soda lime glass, an alkali aluminosilicate glass, and an alkali aluminoborosilicate glass.

9. The transparent glass sheet of claim 8, wherein the glass comprises at least 2 mol % of Al₂O₃ or ZrO₂.

10. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, wherein the transparent glass sheet has a 20°

distinctness of image of less than about 80.

11. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, wherein the pixelated display alone has a second pixel power deviation, and wherein pixel power deviation of the transparent glass sheet combined with the pixelated display is less than about 4% greater than the second pixel power deviation.

12. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, wherein the pixelated display alone has a second pixel power deviation, and wherein pixel power deviation of the transparent glass sheet combined with the pixelated display is less than about two times greater than the second pixel power deviation.

13. The transparent glass sheet of claim 12, wherein the pixelated display has a sub-pixel window opening dimension of less than 200 μ

m.

14. The transparent glass sheet of claim 12, wherein the predetermined distance between the imaging plane and the antiglare surface is in a range from about 1.0 mm to about 3.5 mm.

15. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, further comprising an antireflective layer disposed over the antiglare surface.

16. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, wherein the transparent glass sheet comprises a second surface opposite the antiglare surface, wherein the second surface has an RMS roughness of less than about 20 nm.

17. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, wherein the first RMS surface roughness Rlong is measured in a range of lateral spatial periods from about 80 μ

m to about 640 μ

m and the ratio Rtotal/Rlong is greater than or equal to about 2.20.

18. The transparent glass sheet of claim 1, wherein the first RMS surface roughness Rlong is measured in a range of lateral spatial periods from about 80 μ

m to about 640 μ

m, the second RMS surface roughness Rshort is greater than about 30 nm, and the ratio Rtotal/Rlong is greater than or equal to about 1.80.

19. A display system, the display system comprising:

a pixelated display having a plurality of pixels and an imaging plane; and

a transparent glass sheet having an antiglare surface, wherein the transparent glass sheet is disposed in front of the pixelated display such that the antiglare surface is distal from the pixelated display and separated from the imaging plane by an optical distance, wherein the transparent glass sheet has a pixel power deviation of less than about 7.5%, wherein the transparent glass sheet has a 20°

distinctness of image of less than about 60, and wherein the antiglare surface has a first RMS surface roughness Rlong of up to about 300 nm measured in a range of lateral spatial periods from about 40 μ

m to about 640 μ

m;

a second RMS surface roughness Rshort measured at lateral spatial periods of less than about 20 μ

m, wherein the ratio (Rlong/Rshort) is less than about 3.9; and

a third RMS roughness Rtotal, measured without surface wavelength filtering, wherein the third RMS roughness Rtotal is in a range from about 60 nm to about 600 nm.

20. The display system of claim 19, wherein the transparent glass sheet has a 20°

distinctness of image of less than about 40.

21. The display system of claim 19, wherein the pixelated display alone has a second pixel power deviation, and wherein pixel power deviation of the transparent glass sheet combined with the pixelated display is less than about 4% greater than the second pixel power deviation.

22. The display system of claim 19, wherein the pixelated display alone has a second pixel power deviation, and wherein pixel power deviation of the transparent glass sheet combined with the pixelated display is less than about two times greater than the second pixel power deviation.

23. The display system of claim 22, wherein the display system has a minimum sub-pixel window opening dimension of less than 200 μ

m.

24. The display system of claim 22, wherein the optical distance between the imaging plane and the antiglare surface is in a range from about 1.0 mm to about 3.5 mm.

25. The display system of claim 19, wherein the transparent glass sheet is strengthened.

26. The display system of claim 25, wherein the transparent glass sheet is strengthened by ion exchange, and wherein the transparent glass sheet has at least one surface having a region under a compressive stress, the region extending from the surface to a depth of layer within the transparent glass sheet.

27. The display system of claim 26, wherein the compressive stress is at least about 350 MPa and the depth of layer is at least 15 μ

m.

28. The display system of claim 19, wherein the transparent glass sheet comprises one of a soda lime glass, an alkali aluminosilicate glass, and an alkali aluminoborosilicate glass.

29. The display system of claim 28, wherein the glass comprises at least 2 mol % of Al₂O₃ or ZrO₂.

30. The display system of claim 21, wherein the transparent glass sheet has an Rshort of at least about 30 nm.

31. The display system of claim 30, wherein the transparent glass sheet has a transmission haze of less than about 20%.

32. A method of making a transparent glass sheet having at least one antiglare surface, the method comprising roughening at least one surface of the transparent glass sheet to form the at least one antiglare surface, wherein the at least one antiglare surface has a first RMS surface height roughness Rlong of up to about 300 nm, a second RMS surface roughness Rshort measured at lateral spatial periods of less than about 20 μ

m, and a third RMS roughness Rtotal measured without surface wavelength filtering, wherein the ratio (Rlong/Rshort) is less than about 3.9, and wherein Rtotal is in a range from about 60 nm up to about 600 nm, and wherein the transparent glass sheet has a pixel power deviation of less than about 7.5% when disposed in front of a pixelated display having a plurality of pixels and an imaging plane such that the antiglare surface is distal from the pixelated display and separated from the imaging plane by a predetermined distance, and wherein the transparent glass sheet has a 20°

distinctness of image of less than about 60.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein Rshort is at least about 30 nm.

34. The method of claim 32, further comprising strengthening the transparent glass sheet.

35. The method of claim 34, wherein strengthening the transparent glass sheet comprises strengthening the glass sheet by ion exchange, and wherein the transparent glass sheet has at least one surface having a region under a compressive stress, the region extending from the surface to a depth of layer within the transparent glass sheet.

36. The method of claim 35, wherein the compressive stress is at least about 350 MPa and the depth of layer is at least 15 μ

m.

37. The method of claim 32, wherein the transparent glass sheet comprises one of a soda lime glass, an alkali aluminosilicate glass, and an alkali aluminoborosilicate glass.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein the glass comprises at least 2 mol % of Al₂O₃ or ZrO₂.

39. The method of claim 32, wherein roughening at least one surface of the transparent glass sheet comprises etching the at least one surface.

40. The method of claim 39, wherein etching the at least one surface comprises:

depositing a plurality of particles on the at least one surface to form a layer of particles; and

etching the at least one surface through the layer of particles to roughen the surface.

41. The method of claim 40, wherein etching the at least one surface further comprises forming a protective film on at least a portion of the at least one surface.

42. A transparent glass sheet, the transparent glass sheet having at least one antiglare surface, wherein the antiglare surface has:

a first RMS surface roughness Rlong nm measured in a range of lateral spatial periods from about 80 μ

m to about 640 μ

m; and

a second RMS roughness Rtotal, measured without surface wavelength filtering, wherein the ratio Rtotal/Rlong is greater than or equal to about 2.20, and wherein the transparent glass sheet has a pixel power deviation of less than about 7.5% when disposed in front of a pixelated display having a plurality of pixels and an imaging plane such that the antiglare surface is distal from the pixelated display and separated from the imaging plane by a predetermined distance, and wherein the transparent glass sheet has a 20°

distinctness of image of less than about 60.

43. The transparent glass sheet of claim 42, wherein the antiglare surface has a third RMS surface roughness Rshort nm of greater than about 30 nm, wherein Rshort is measured at lateral spatial periods of less than about 20 μ

m.

44. The transparent glass sheet of claim 42, wherein the transparent glass sheet has a transmission haze of less than about 20%.