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Brighter Flat Panels Through Nano-Manipulation - Braggone Introduces New LUXONE Product Line (23/10/2006)

Patented New Platform of Optical and Electrical Coatings Will Make TVs, Mobile Screens and Flexible Displays Brighter and Less Power Hungry

Optoelectronic materials supplier Braggone announced today a new product line that will enable end-user manufacturers of flat panel displays to cost effectively tune their newest product models to significantly better levels of quality and performance. Braggone's patented, novel nano-manipulation platform of optical and electrical coatings and nano-structures can be implemented directly into flat panel TVs and mobile communication device screens for brighter displays and less power consumption.

Braggone's new material product line, LUXONE(tm), is an enabler of next generation displays and flexible optoelectronic devices. These products can be utilized as optoelectronic components in flat panel, mobile phone and micro displays. Typical components manufactured with LUXONE are ultra thin and include efficient reflectors and light extractors that are implemented inside the display devices.

"These optical and electrical layers were previously integrated into components through complicated and expensive high temperature vacuum processes and have also required complex patterning processes," commented Ari Karkkainen, one of the inventors of the technology and R&D director at Braggone.

"With Braggone's technology and products integration scheme, the coating deposition and patterning can take place through a vacuumless process at low temperatures. Coatings are in liquid form prior to processing and therefore can be deposited with standard integrated circuit and flat panel industry process tools and even with conventional printing equipment," he added.

For several years Braggone has been collaborating with the VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland in VTT's printable electronics and optics center, the world leader in roll-to-roll optoelectronics processing. The focus of the work was to test Braggone's product feasibility.

"We have now achieved a refined printing process that provides cost effective quality solutions," commented Arto Maaninen, technology manager of printable electronics and optics at VTT. "We have demonstrated what Braggone's unique nanomaterial technology can really achieve and with this new technology we can significantly boost our roll-to-roll product development programs."

Braggone was recently issued a US Patent for its LUXONE product line.

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