Coatings Corner

Referencing our recent post on hot mirrors can help greatly in understanding how a cold mirror functions as they are both heat control coatings....

LCDs used in outdoor situations have many concerns to deal with in addition to any that they might normally encounter during indoor use. Initially...

One way to help prevent IR and UV radiation damage which causes LCD failure is to implement a hot mirror with a UV blocker. Before we get into...

An EMI shielding window is an optically transparent, electrically conductive barrier that significantly reduces the amount of electro-magnetic...

Once you’ve determined what kind of EMI shielding window is appropriate for an application, you then have to take into consideration any...

Transparent Heater Windows are used for widely differing purposes from keeping food hot or cold to preventing aircraft windows from frosting over....

UV Blocking Glass acts as a mirror with regard to Ultraviolet light wavelengths (400nm and shorter). UV rays are one of the most significant sources...

Throughout the past few decades, it has been established that people are being damaged by ultraviolet light from the sun, and so we are being...

Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) technology and display quality continues to evolve, while prices for LCDs have declined dramatically in the last few...

Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) is a family of processes that is used to deposit layers of atoms or molecules from the vapor phase onto a solid...

Optical filters are a great tool for a wide variety of lighting applications. One common use of optical filters includes changing the correlated...

A dichroic filter, thin-film filter, or interference filter is a very accurate color filter used to selectively pass light of a small range of...

Oleophobic (anti-smudge) coatings on glass and ceramic surfaces create an oil resistant, anti-fingerprint surface that is impervious to dirt, dust,...

A UV blocking filter or ultraviolet optical filter prevents ultraviolet light transmission. UV filters are commonly used in photography to reduce...

A neutral density or ND optical filter reduces or modifies the intensity of all wavelengths or colors of light equally, therefore providing for no...

Hot and cold mirrors “heat control filters” are types of dichroic filters used to remove unwanted energy from a light emitting source.Hot Mirror A...

Abrisa Technologies can deposit a wide variety of precious and non-precious metals onto glass substrates depending upon the application requirement....

Thin film optical coatings are applied to optical substrates such as glass to alter or change its optical properties. The coating is applied in...