Optical article having a reflective coating with high abrasion-resistance
AssigneeEssilor International
InventorsWilliam TROTTIER-LAPOINTE, Alexis THEODEN, Philippe ROMAND, Surin MAIDAM
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Abstract
Disclosed is an optical article including a substrate having at least one main face coated with a reflective coating including a stack of at least one high refractive index layer having a refractive index higher than 1.55 and at least one low refractive index layer having a refractive index of 1.55 or less, in which the thicknesses of the layers in the reflective coating have been optimized according to specific design rules in order to boost the abrasion resistance of the optical article.
Claims19
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An optical article comprising a substrate having at least one main face coated with a reflective coating in the visible range comprising a stack of at least one high refractive index layer having a refractive index greater than 1.55 and at least one low refractive index layer having a refractive index of 1.55 or less, wherein:
- a) The reflective coating comprises at least four layers and
- The outermost low refractive index layer of the reflective coating has a thickness Tho of at least 10 nm,
- The outermost high refractive index layer of the reflective coating has a thickness of 75 nm or less,
- The penultimate low refractive index layer of the reflective coating has a thickness Thp of at least 150 nm,
- The penultimate high refractive index layer of the reflective coating has a thickness ranging from 5 nm to 90 nm,
- Tho/4+Thp≥200 nm, or
- b) The reflective coating has three layers and
- The outermost layer of the reflective coating is a low refractive index layer having a thickness of 70 nm or less,
- The penultimate layer of the reflective coating is a high refractive index layer having a thickness of 50 nm or less,
- The first layer of the reflective coating is a low refractive index layer having a thickness of at least 200 nm.
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