A microstructure formed on a light guide plate (conceptual figure).
Visual verification for distribution of microstructures.
Arbitrary, user-defined microelement shapes.
This software provides the possibility to handle a huge number of microelements formed on a surface and analyze the influence of microstructures on light propagation. It allows users to know how the light propagation is influenced by the object surface on which micro dimples and grooves are formed using such method as etching technique to control the light distribution.
Applications
The following surfaces can be defined:
- Printed pattern of reflective dots
- Formed pattern of reflective dots
- Microlens array
- Microprism (e.g. BEF)
- Rough-finished surface
Features
- Handling up to several hundred millions of microelements
- Use of an arbitrary microelement shape in addition to predefined ones
- Forming both convex and concave microelements on the surface
- Application of parametric transformation (e.g. scaling and rotation) to each individual microelement independently
- Arbitrary distribution: position, sizes, rotation for each microelement can be specified individually
- Coexistence of different shapes in a single microstructure distribution
- Visualization of a microstructure distribution
- Library of pre-defined basic microstructure distributions
- Custom order service for microstructures with special shapes and distributions
Specification
| Number of microelements |
Several millions to several hundred millions |
| Size of microelements |
Several millimeters to several micrometers |
| Shape of microelements |
- Primitives (cylinder, cone, pyramid, half-sphere, triangular groove, etc.)
- Combination of primitives
- Shapes imported from CAD
- Arbitrary, user-defined shape
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| Distribution of microstructure |
- Regular
- Arbitrary
- Random
- User-defined
- Regular density
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| Transformation of microstructure |
- Scaling and rotation
- Changing feature parameters of shapes
- Transformation for each individual microelement
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| Others |
- Shape library
- Distribution library
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