IG window unit including double silver coating having increased SHGC to U-value ratio, and corresponding coated article for use in IG window unit or other window

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9302936-B2
Application number	US-201514592970-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 9, 2015
Priority date	Sep 3, 2013
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

An insulating glass (IG) window unit includes first and second substrates, and a low-emissivity (low-E) coating supported by one of the substrates. The low-E coating has two silver based infrared (IR) reflecting layers and allows the IG window unit to realize an increased SHGC to U-value ratio, and an increased thickness ratio of an upper silver based layer of the coating to a bottom silver based layer of the coating. The low-E coating is designed to have a low film-side reflectance, so that for example when the low-E coating is used on surface number three of an IG window unit the IG window unit can realize reduced visible reflectance as viewed from the outside of the building on which the IG window unit is mounted or is to be mounted.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A coated article including a low-emissivity (low-E) coating on a substrate, the low-E coating comprising, moving away from the substrate:
a dielectric layer comprising silicon nitride;
a dielectric layer comprising titanium oxide;
a first lower contact layer comprising zinc oxide;
a first IR reflecting layer comprising silver located over and directly contacting the first lower contact layer;
a first upper contact layer comprising metal oxide located over and directly contacting the first IR reflecting layer comprising silver;
a layer comprising zinc stannate located over and directly contacting the first upper contact layer comprising metal oxide;
a layer consisting essentially of tin oxide located over and directly contacting the layer comprising zinc stannate;
a second lower contact layer comprising zinc oxide located over and directly contacting the layer consisting essentially of tin oxide;
wherein a total thickness of the layer comprising zinc stannate and the layer consisting essentially of tin oxide is from 600-900 Å;
a second IR reflecting layer comprising silver located over and directly contacting the second lower contact layer;
a second upper contact layer located over and directly contacting the second IR reflecting layer comprising silver; and
a dielectric layer;
wherein the low-E coating has only two IR reflecting layers comprising silver, and wherein the low-E coating has a normal emissivity of no greater than 0.04;
wherein a ratio of a thickness of the first IR reflecting layer comprising silver to a thickness of the second IR reflecting layer comprising silver, calculated as the thickness of the first IR reflecting layer comprising silver divided by the thickness of the second IR reflecting layer comprising silver, is from 0.30 to 0.50 and provides a SHGC of at least 0.54; and
wherein the coated article, measured monolithically, has a visible transmission of at least about 70% and film side visible reflectance of no greater than 6.5%.

2. The coated article of claim 1 , wherein the first upper contact layer comprises an oxide of Ni and/or Cr.

Assignees

• Guardian Industries

Inventors

• Wuillaume Francis
• Boyce Brent

Classifications

• C03C17/366 Primary

  Low-emissivity or solar control coatings · CPC title

• C03C17/3626 Primary

  one layer at least containing a nitride, oxynitride, boronitride or carbonitride · CPC title

• Y10T428/2495

  Thickness [relative or absolute] · CPC title

• C03C17/36

  at least one coating being a metal · CPC title

• C03C17/3644

  the metal being silver · CPC title