Fascination of Light and Glass – Design and Application Possibilities of High-Tech Glass Treatment and Handling in Combination with Modern Illuminating Engineering

Thomas Schmidt, Angelika Ullmann

The lecture provides an overview about the use of the most modern glass treatment methods – in particular laser technology. In additional, it will inform you about a new use of traditional glass processing processes, like coating by sputtering and serigraphy. These methods make extraordinary effective illumination variations possible.

You may differ between direct and indirect generation of light in glass or glass compounds.

The direct generation of light on the glass respectively in the glass compound effects by the use of transparent, electrically conductive coatings on the glass providing the LEDs or electro luminescent colours with invisible current supply.

Concerning the indirect illumination of the glass, illumination effects of fascinating brilliance arise by the dispersion of light provided over the glass edges on micro cracks. Special glass coating methods give us the possibility of different variations of glass transparency in wide ranges and in subsequence special illumination effects. What are the target application fields?

In particular, advertising, architectural, ambience illumination, automobile industry as well as the
creation of design orientated furniture and lamps up to transparent displays with hundreds of LEDs. You may imagine moving graphic effects or light writings - free programmable by LED controlling.

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