Microsharp installs new Precision Optical Coating Line at its Oxfordshire H.Q. Solar Power.Using thin film Fresnel Lens structures in ultra low cost solar concentrators.Using microstructured optical films to manage L.E.D. output.
Download Newsetter March 2008
This newsletter details recent developments in the company, including Microsharp’s increasing research and development of plastic electronics in a collaborative project, BLOLED (BackLight OLED). In addition, Microsharp not only announces its Specialist Coatings service, but also a range of small...
Microsharp has initiated a Carbon Trust-funded research and development project to develop ultralow cost solar concentrators for solar power applications, including the generation of electricity and the heating of water. Microsharp will develop optical films that will act as large, thin, lenses to...
A Microsharp international patent application for a novel brightness enhancement film has been published as WO2006/064259 with the title "Structured Optical Film". Microsharp has also made the same patent application in Taiwan, where international patent applications are not recognized. The film...
Liquavista (www.liquavista.com) is a new VCbacked spin out from Philips Research, developing products based on low power very high brightness reflective displays which are also capable of video rate switching. The electrowetting technology uses coloured dyes which can be electrically moved to cover...
Microsharp have been awarded a Carbon Trust research grant to develop a novel design of advanced optical film for solar power concentrators. The two year research programme will be conducted with ...
Microsharp has been granted a new Japanese patent: number 3729215. The patent covers the use of Microsharp's GRIN diffusers in conjunction with black areas which can be printed on the diffuser in order to improve contrast. The diffuser can then be applied as a contrast-enhanced rear projection...
Dr David Bottomley, Commercial Manager of Microsharp, presented an invited talk entitled "Optical films for improving backlight performance" at a UK Displays Network Meeting at Bletchley Park in November 2005. In particular, the performance of Microsharp’s off-axis GRIN (GRaded [refractive] INdex)...
Microsharp, along with partners Patterning Technology Limited (PTL) (www.pattech.com) and Technical Converters Limited (www.technicalconverters.co.uk) have initiated a UK DTI Technology Programme (www.dti.gov.uk/technologyprogramme/) grant funded project to ink jet print passive and active polymers...
Based on its patent pending microprismatic structure (WO2005045518), Microsharp have fabricated examples of our light turning film. The films have easily tailored specific turning angles and enable the incorporation of one dimensional angle of view expansion using a focussing mechanism incorporated...
LEDs are rapidly taking over as flexible and low cost light sources for a wide range of novel illumination solutions. By combining LEDs, structured light cavities and the correct combination of optical films, a wide variety of uniform and non-uniform light sources can be created for Signage,...
Dr Nicholas Walker, CEO of Microsharp, presented a talk entitled "Self Organising Optical Film Materials" at a Society for Information Display Technical Meeting in the UK.
