Patent ID: 6929861

Claim:
A glass product comprising an alkali or alkali earth metal silicate glass, said glass product having high optical clarity and comprising at least one surface comprising: a plurality of islands extending across said surface of said glass at a density of about 60 to about 10,000 islands per square millimeter and each island being between about 10 to about 200 micrometers in diameter and said islands extending across said entire surface of said glass in such a distribution that said islands contribute to providing decreased reflectance of incident light across said surface of said glass; a skeletized silica structure having openings and extending uniformly over the surface of the glass, including the islands, said skeletized structure is about 100 to about 400 angstroms in diameter said openings are about 100 to about 200 angstroms in diameter and uniformly distributed throughout the surface of the glass, wherein the density of said skeletized structure is about 50 to about 70 skeletized structures per 200 nanometers square of said surface; and the product having low reflectance of incident light.