Lacquer Development Capabilities

Key to many of Microsharp's new optical film developments is its capability to develop and optimize UV curable lacquers for UV cast roll-to-roll manufacturing of surface relief optical films. In order to enable such optical films to meet customer requirements, many aspects have to be optimised, including:

• Transparency
• Temperature resistance
• Refractive index
• Profile
• Adhesion to base film
• Antistatic properties

For example, motivated by the needs of a technology partner in the Far East, Microsharp has developed, tested and released an antistatic UV curable embossing lacquer, which is now being used in large scale production.

Microsharp is often able to work with clients to either develop completely new lacquers meeting a required specification, or take an existing lacquer and modify it to meet requirements that were previously unachievable.