Optical Component Materials
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Overview The importance of optical materials or components is getting greater due to enlargement of the display, improvement in image quality, and growth of optical communications. In the display devices, optical materials are used for surface treatment to enhance visibility of TV and mobile devices, and window ones corresponding to new device platform. And materials for cameras include lens module, actuator, image sensor, optical filter materials and so on.
Technology trend Anti-reflection and anti-fingerprint technologies are being developed to enhance visibility of mobile display as optical materials for displays. Especially, for an anti-fingerprint technology, materials for multi-functional coating are under development to achieve more smoothness of slipping gesture and anti-fingerprint feature. Film materials for foldable, rollable and stretchable are also getting more attention. In camera industry, the trend lies in exploiting rapid-respond actuator and aspherical lens for thinner camera, and filters for night image for preventing light scatter and distortion. In optical communication industry, it is expected that copper interconnect is converted to optical interconnect as optical-based signal transduction technology, which is originally used for communicating between data centers that is extended to be applied in rack-to-rack (communication between server rack) connection with the advent of IoT and 5G network. Furthermore, another optical communication technology such as board-to-board and chip-to-chip is also under development for faster data processing.
SAIT Technology SAIT concentrates on the institute’s capacity in developing new optical materials which have several characteristics such as higher brightness, lower surface reflection, higher optical transmittance, better heat resistance and water resistance, and better mechanical property, especially for display and mobile camera. We are also exploiting the following materials; multi-functional optical coating materials for mobile display which are highly durable, anti-fingerprint, and low-reflection for better visibility; high-molecular window materials with greater hardness and transparency for flexible display; high-efficient optical organic filter and lens materials which are capable of enhancing the performance of mobile camera dramatically; tunable-refractive-index materials which can modify phase of light of different wavelength.