Using UV Blocking Glass to Protect Liquid Crystal Displays

Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) technology and display quality continues to evolve, while prices for LCDs have declined dramatically in the last few years. These two factors have helped to increase demand for LCDs in a variety of new and challenging applications, such as outdoor displays, where environmental conditions such as high ambient light and heat [...]

Reduce LCD panel failure from excessive IR and UV light.

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 specifics about how this would work, it is important to understand that liquid crystal display panels and polarizers utilize organic compounds that are susceptible to high heat and [...]

Protect liquid crystal displays from sunlight damage.

LCDs used in outdoor situations have many concerns to deal with in addition to any that they might normally encounter during indoor use. Initially some concerns are weather related such as moisture in the air or extreme temperatures. Another concern that is often not understood or just not known about at all is [...]

Hot Mirror applications for use with digital photography

Digital photographers use many filters to achieve varied effects or solve problems, such as using a hot mirror filter to reduce the effect of the near IR on visible light images. One particularly telling issue is taking images of people with a digital SLR. There are several other issues related to near IR [...]

What is a cold mirror useful for?

Referencing our recent post on hot mirrors can help greatly in understanding how a cold mirror functions as they are both heat control coatings.
Cold mirrors are much like hot mirrors in that they are used to separate IR from the non-IR. The major difference between the two is that cold mirrors transmit IR bands [...]

What is a hot mirror?

A hot mirror is in essence a thin film coating applied to substrates in effort to reflect infra-red radiation either as a means to harness the reflected wavelengths for an application or to remove them from an application.
Hot mirrors are often misunderstood due to their name and understandably so. Judging by the name it [...]

Protect Fiber-Optic Cable from UV and IR damage with Hot Mirrors and Cold Mirrors.

How are hot mirrors and a cold mirrors used to prevent UV and IR radiation from damaging fiber-optic cable?
Recently we’ve been getting a few questions about the effects of UV and IR radiation on optical fiber that is often used in high speed local area fiber-optic communications equipment and image displays or lighting systems. [...]