Optical Bonding and Surface Treatments - Planar Expertise in Electronic Design

Terry Trover, Sr. Product Manager for Planar, recently wrote a great article about many of the considerations in using optical bonding and surface treatments. His biggest challenge was summarizing a ton of information into a two-page article for Electronic Design. Here's a brief excerpt from the article.

Typically, most protective windows and touchscreens adhere to TFT displays with double-sided tape, leaving an air gap between the polarizer surface and the overlay. Yet light reflects when it travels between various mediums with differing indexes of refraction. If you place a transparent protective window on top of a display, light willreflect back at the viewer where the interface of air and glass meet. Light will also reflect back when it exits the medium.

We've assembled additional resources on optical bonding, including an FAQ at PlanarEmbedded.com.

Transparent Electroluminescent Displays on Electronic Design's List of Top Components

We were excited to see that our transparent EL display (TASEL) technology made Electronic Design's list of the Top 101 components. Check out #32.

You can read the article and see the rest of the rankings here. Check out the video below for closer look at transparent EL in a clock.

Transparent Electroluminescent Display Clock Demo

We've been playing around with our FlipVideo camera. Look for more informal video on this blog in the near future. In the meantime, check out this short video showing off our transparent electroluminescent display technology. Note that we can also cut the display into curved shapes.