Sol-gel antireflective spin-coating process for large-size shielding windows

Philippe F. Belleville; Philippe Prene; Francoise Mennechez; Christian Bouigeon

doi:10.1117/12.453895

23 October 2002 Sol-gel antireflective spin-coating process for large-size shielding windows

Philippe F. Belleville, Philippe Prene, Francoise Mennechez, Christian Bouigeon

Proceedings Volume 4804, Sol-Gel Optics VI; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453895
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2002, Seattle, WA, United States

Abstract

The interest of the antireflective coatings applied onto large-area glass components increases everyday for the potential application such as building or shop windows. Today, because of the use of large size components, sol-gel process is a competitive way for antireflective coating mass production. The dip-coating technique commonly used for liquid-deposition, implies a safety hazard due to coating solution handling and storage in the case of large amounts of highly flammable solvent use. On the other hand, spin-coating is a liquid low-consumption technique. Mainly devoted to coat circular small-size substrate, we have developed a spin-coating machine able to coat large-size rectangular windows (up to 1 x 1.7 m²). Both solutions and coating conditions have been optimized to deposit optical layers with accurate and uniform thickness and to highly limit the edge effects. Experimental single layer antireflective coating deposition process onto large-area shielding windows (1000 x 1700 x 20 mm³) is described. Results show that the as-developed process could produce low specular reflection value (down to 1% one side) onto white-glass windows over the visible range (460-750 nm). Low-temperature curing process (120°C) used after sol-gel deposition enables antireflective-coating to withstand abrasion-resistance properties in compliance to US-MIL-C-0675C moderate test.

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Philippe F. Belleville, Philippe Prene, Francoise Mennechez, and Christian Bouigeon "Sol-gel antireflective spin-coating process for large-size shielding windows", Proc. SPIE 4804, Sol-Gel Optics VI, (23 October 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453895

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