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News Release from: CI Lumen Industries | Subject: UV polymer optical bonding
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 September 2006
Bonding system improves LCD performance
Advanced UV polymer optical bonding solution improves contrast, enables brighter graphics, enhances ruggedness and offers a more robust overall visual experience for a variety of LCDs.
CI Lumen, a leading provider of LCD enhancements for flat panel LCD solutions, now offers a patent-pending, advanced UV polymer optical bonding solution that improves contrast, enables brighter graphics, enhances ruggedness and offers a more robust overall visual experience for a virtually limitless variety of liquid crystal display (LCD) solutions Key benefits of optical bonding of various substrates to LCD panels include sunlight readability, eye-popping detail and exhilarating graphics
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Dec 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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CI Lumen's advanced UV polymer optical bonding is custom formulated for an improved yield and better performance than other optical bonding solutions.
The process permanently affixes a wide variety of performance-enhancing substrates to LCD panels, including acrylic or glass to LCD panels up to 46in.
Substrate thickness is typically 1-10mm.
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CI Lumen's bonding options include antireflective- and antiglare-coated glass for sunlight readability, ITO glass for reduced EMI emissions, touch screens and acrylic vandal shields - each tailored to a specific application.
The patent-pending bonding process, itself, offers truly permanent, defect-free adhesion to the LCD.
CI Lumen can typically deliver prototype quantities in less than 10 days.
"At CI Lumen, we are lightwaves ahead of the market for optical bonding services", said James Hoffman, Chief Technology Officer of CI Lumen.
"Despite the fact that only a handful of North American vendors offer optical bonding services to begin with, our process offers a more permanent bond, and our complementary services such as mechanical design and spectral analysis are unmatched in the market at home or abroad".
"From our superior clean space to one-stop-shop solutions, we are dedicated to serving anyone who needs LCD enhancements".
CI Lumen's bonding process alleviates the air gap between the cover glass and the LCD.
Bonding a piece of glass with an AR coating to the surface of the LCD creates an index matched light path.
(The index of refraction of air and the AR coating are both one).
The bonding agent allows the light to be transmitted seamlessly from the LCD to the viewer and minimises internal reflections.
The resulting process, for example, allows the contrast ratio to be high enough in bright sunlight conditions to allow the user to read the LCD in high-brightness conditions.
CI Lumen's optical bonding process is ideally suited to anyone designing products that include LCD panels or who wish to offer added value to stand-alone LCD products, including members of the digital signage industry and other OEMs serving the military, medical, commercial or industrial markets.
In addition to such traditional LCD markets, CI Lumen regularly serves nontraditional, nonelectronics OEMs through a variety of support services.
In addition to optical bonding services, CI Lumen offers a complete range of services to help rapidly advance an OEM's LCD project whether it includes bonding, enclosures or complete integration.
The company's full service and active applications engineering staff is available to assist with a project from start to finish, including assistance and recommendations for LCD panel selection, such as guidance regarding the tradeoffs of a wide selection of available enhancements.
CI Lumen also has thorough optical testing capabilities, including spectral analysis, chromaticity, reflectance and diffuse reflectance, and NVIS compatibility.
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