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• the invention relates to multilayer systems for selective reflection of electromagnetic radiation from the wavelength spectrum of sunlight and a method for producing this on suitable preferably polymeric carrier materials.
• Another use is a combination of said composite material with other coated or uncoated films and adhesives for use as a "window film” for subsequent application to glazing.
• Such multilayer systems are used for selective selective influencing of the transmission as well as reflection of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun and thereby on substrates which are transparent to the electromagnetic radiation, in particular glass or glass
• the goal is connected to reflect the highest possible proportion of radiation in the non-visible range (eg solar energy range, or near-infrared spectral range), so that the proportion of transmitted solar energy is minimized.
• a particular aim is to maximize the value of the total solar transmission T T s (calculated according to DIN ISO 13837, case 1) by a composite glazing equipped with such a multilayer system on said support to a maximum of 40%, that of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the Sun and incident on the Earth's surface.
• T T s calculated according to DIN ISO 13837, case 1
• the heating is minimized inside rooms or vehicles and the energy cost to create a person in the interior pleasant ambient climate can be reduced.
• multilayer systems have been used for a long time, which are formed on substrates (glass or plastic). These may be alternating layer systems in which high and low refractive layers of dielectric materials are formed on each other. Frequently, even thin metal layers are used alternating with thin dielectric layers (oxides and nitrides). These oxides or nitrides should have optical refractive indices at a wavelength of 550 nm in the range 1.8 to 2.5.
• reflective metals such as gold or copper, silver or silver alloys (Ag-Au, Ag-Cu, Ag-Pd and others) which have very good optical properties for these applications are preferably used for the metal layers.
• Ti or NiCr alloys with a typical layer thickness ⁇ 5 nm have mostly been used. This is to avoid the oxidation of the silver on the layer surface, since the direct contact of the
• the interface roughness increases with increasing number of layers. In the case of thin silver layers, this can lead to the second and third silver layers in a multilayer system having inferior electrical and optical properties of comparable thickness. This is indirect, e.g. detectable by measuring the electrical resistance. Additional absorption effects at the rough interface between silver and dielectric layers additionally reduce the transparency for electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of visible light.
• a manufacturing method for these multilayer systems is defined by claim 8.
• Advantageous embodiments and further developments can be realized with features described in the subordinate claims.
• a multilayer system according to the invention for a selective reflection of electromagnetic radiation from the wavelength spectrum of the sunlight is coated with at least one layer of silver or a silver alloy, which is coated on both surfaces with one seed layer and one cap layer on both surfaces the seed and cover layer are formed of a dielectric material formed.
• the seed layer and also the cover layer of ZnO and / or ZnO: X are formed.
• At least one such multilayer system is formed on a flexible polymeric substrate, preferably an optically transparent film in the visible spectral range.
• a seed layer and a cover layer can be formed from the pure ZnO, the doped zinc oxide or in each case one of the two layers of the ZnO and the other layer of the doped ZnO.
• a silver alloy in which Au, Pd or Cu with small proportions are present.
• the layers are generally referred to as a silver layer.
• the proportion of additional metal contained should be kept very small, possibly less than 2%.
• Such a multi-layer system or several of these multi-layer systems may have been formed one above the other on the substrate. In this case, recourse can be had to conventional vacuum coating methods, in particular PVD methods and, with particular advantage, to magnetron sputtering.
• both the seed layer and the cover layer can be sputtered from the same target material. That is, the same material basically fulfills the corresponding function.
• the respective gas mixture fed into the coating area firstly for the seed layer and secondly for the covering layer in each coating step, in order to thus optimize the respective function.
• This allows a particularly economical forward + backward coating by winding back and forth (with each wrapping is a system with germination).
• the multi-layer system can be produced without time-consuming ventilation operations for hanging the role with multiple silver layers and seed and cover layers.
• the targets for the formation of the seed layer, the silver layer and the cover layer are arranged successively in the feed axis direction of the substrate.
• the targets for the formation of the seed layer and the cover layer may be formed of the same material.
• a seed layer can be formed alternately alternately with one target at a time, and a cover layer can be formed with the opposite feed direction.
• X with X for example Al 2 0 3 , Ga 2 0 3 , Sn0 2 , ln 2 0 3 or MgO can be used.
• corresponding targets with the respective composition ie pure ZnO or at least one other of the said oxides can be used for the coating.
• the proportion of these oxides, which is in addition to ZnO contained in the seed and cover layer, should be a maximum of 20% by mass, a proportion of 10 mass% is then preferable to ensure especially the expression of the crystalline structure for the seed layer ,
• the seed layer and / or the cover layer should have a layer thickness in the range 5 nm to 15 nm and the silver layer a layer thickness between 5 nm and 25 nm, preferably 10 nm. It is advantageous to be able to form additional dielectric layers which enclose such a multilayer system from both sides.
• Monilayer systems preferably three monoside layer systems according to Figure 2 to deposit on a substrate.
• a monoseal layer system is a construction of a dielectric layer, a thin seed layer, a silver layer, a cover layer and a final dielectric layer (see FIG. 1).
• the thicknesses of the silver layers and the thicknesses of the dielectric layers must be adapted.
• the dielectric layers have a refractive index of n> 1.8 at a wavelength of 550 nm and lower absorption, and may preferably be formed of ln 2 0 3 .
• a dielectric layer structure formed between two silver layers which is composed of cover layer, dielectric layer and seed layer, has the effect of a dielectric spacer layer in an optical filter system for defining the position of the spectral transmission range and the color appearance of a laminated glass, as known from the prior art is known. It is of particular advantage according to the invention that the thicknesses of the seed and cover layers contribute to the layer thickness of dielectric spacer layers, since they produce a corresponding optical effect, like other dielectric materials, and contribute to the overall optical effect. The contribution of the seed and cover layer to the dielectric thickness in the layer system can be taken into account with its optical refractive index and geometric thickness in the construction of the multilayer system.
• the optical refractive index of ZnO at a wavelength of 550 nm is about 1.95 to 2.05, depending on the deposition conditions. It may differ slightly from the proportion of further oxide contained in a germination and / or cover layer. This makes it possible to adapt to the desired optical effect in cooperation with other dielectric layers made of other materials.
• three targets can be used in the vacuum coating for the formation of the silver layer and the seed and cover layer, which are arranged successively in the feed axis direction during the coating and / or can be used.
• a seed layer with a ceramic target ZnO and / or ZnO: X then the silver layer with a silver target and the cover layer with a second ZnO and / or ZnO: X target can be formed.
• the process conditions, and in particular the gas composition, which is introduced into the coating layer for seed layer / covering layer can be kept constant or equal in each coating step.
• the gas mixture used should consist of argon, oxygen and hydrogen and have a composition adapted to the seed and cover layer.
• the proportion of oxygen and hydrogen in the sputtering gas in a certain range are on the one hand, the desired layer structure for optimal, the layer growth of subsequently applied silver layer to achieve positively influencing germination effect and on the other to deposit optically transparent (absorption-free) layers.
• the coating can be at a typical pressure within the coating range of 0.4-1.0 Pa.
• a suitable gas composition should be chosen to ensure a sufficient protective effect.
• the oxygen concentration is to be kept low (orientation value is ⁇ 10% based on the total amount of gas).
• the quality of the silver layers can be improved. This can be explained on the one hand by an improved silver growth, and on the other hand by the corresponding protective effect of the covering layer. Another positive influence is the formation of very smooth boundary layers between the seed layer and the subsequent silver layer and between the deposited silver layer and the top layer applied to it.
• seed layer in the English language is intended to achieve better properties which are more similar to solid Ag by means of a layered growth (layer formation) which begins even at low layer thickness particularly good, since the seed layers of the ZnO and / or ZnO.X have a crystalline structure whose structure has an epitaxial relationship to the structure of the silver.
• the coating conditions allow the seed layer a) predominantly grows up in a crystalline manner and b) at the same time has a certain crystalline preferred direction for the desired orderly growth of the silver layer.
• the layer thicknesses of the seed layer and the cover layer (s) can also be chosen so that they are targeted to the interference of certain electromagnetic
• the seed and / or cover layers can also have different layer thicknesses, so that they can cause interference at different wavelengths.
• Fig. 1 shows in schematic form an example in which a silver layer is enclosed by a seed and cover layer
• Figure 2 is an example in schematic form, in which three silver layers each having a seed and cover layer are present in a multi-layer system construction
• FIG. 3 shows a diagram with calculated and measured electrical areas. chenwidercenteredn with different numbers of silver layers within a multilayer system and
• Figure 4 is a schematic representation of the installation of a multi-layer system according to the invention embedded in a laminated glass plastic film.
• the example of a multilayer system with a silver layer 4 shown in FIG. 1 was applied to the PET substrate 1 in a coating step.
• an ln 2 O 3 layer 2 having a layer thickness of 25 nm was applied by magnetron sputtering in a reactive process using metallic indium targets.
• the seed layer 3 was deposited with a layer thickness of 8 nm of a ceramic with 2% Al 2 0 3 doped ZnO: X target. In each case about 5% oxygen and hydrogen were added to the sputtering gas argon.
• the deposition of the metallic silver layer 4 of 10 nm was carried out by magnetron sputtering in an argon plasma.
• a ZnO: X target doped with 2% Al 2 O 3 was likewise used.
• the argon in this case 5% oxygen and 8% hydrogen were added.
• the final dielectric layer 6 of ln 2 O 3 with a layer thickness of 30 nm was again realized by a reactive process using metal indium targets.
• this sheet silver layer system achieved a surface resistance of 6.2 ohms.
• the thicknesses of the In 2 O 3 layers 2 and 6 as well as the silver layers 4 had to be adapted.
• the seed layers 3 and cover layers 5 were in each coating step under the same conditions.
• FIG. 2 shows a construction in which three multi-layer systems according to the invention, which are each formed with a seed layer 3, a silver layer 4 and a cover layer 5, have been formed on a PET substrate 1.
• the layer thicknesses and the composition of the seed layers 3 and the cover layers 5 correspond to the example according to FIG. 1.
• the dielectric layer 2 of ln 2 O 3 formed on the substrate 1 should have a layer thickness of 20 nm to 50 nm
• the dielectric layers of In 2 O 3 formed between a seed layer 3 and a cap layer 5 should have a thickness of .mu.m Range 40 nm to 150 nm
• the dielectric layer of In 2 O 3 formed on the outer surface facing away from the substrate 1 should have a thickness in the range of 20 nm to 70 nm.
• All silver layers should have a layer thickness in the range of 7 nm to 25 nm.
• the multilayer system consisting of three multi-layer systems corresponding to one another and designed according to the invention can be optimized by adapting individual layer thicknesses in order to realize the properties T T s ⁇ 40%, T vis > 70% and R vis ⁇ 10% in a glass laminate.
• the construction of the "glass laminate" is shown in FIG 1 is a PET substrate, 7 a multilayer system according to the invention with three silver layers 4, 8 PVB (polyvinyl butyral) layers and 9 glass.
• the layer thicknesses for the seed layers 3 at 8 nm and the cover layers 5 were left at 7 nm.

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