Ultra-thin light guides from Global Lighting Technologies (GLT)
utilize the company’s unique LED-based edge-lighting technology to provide an
ideal solution for backlighting touch-enabled display graphics in a wide
variety of applications.
Designers are increasingly incorporating touch technology
into displays and front panel graphic interfaces to enhance the functionality
and perceived value of products.
GLT’s light guides are the ideal backlight design-in because
they provide bright, uniform light exactly where needed for directional
symbols, on/off buttons, company logos, rotary switches, sliders, and whatever
other graphic icons need to be illuminated, from large to small.
GLT’s edge lighting technology employs side-firing, high
efficiency LEDs and focuses the light into a high-performance, ultra-thin light
guide (0.6 mm or less) utilizing light extraction technologies, such as
Microlens, which extracts light precisely where needed to provide bright,
uniform light in a thinner form factor without hot spots or dark areas.
The LEDs are strategically spaced along the edge of the
light guide, providing the most efficient LED-based backlighting technology
available and offering numerous benefits, such as better control of color and
uniformity, lower part count (fewer LEDs required), reduced power consumption,
and the thinnest possible backlight panel.