Method for making materials having uniform limited coalescence domains
US6423368B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 6, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jul 23, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 6, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02F1/13718
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A light-modulating, electrically responsive sheet including a substrate and an electrically conductive layer formed over the substrate. The sheet further includes, in an aqueous bath, an immiscible, field responsive light-modulating material along with a quantity of colloidal particles wherein the colloidal particles limit coalesced domain size and a binder; blending the constituents of the aqueous bath to form a dispersion of said field-responsive, light-modulating material below a coalescence size which sets to form limited coalescence domains having a uniform size; coating said material over the substrate; and drying said coated material to form a set of uniform domains so that such dispersion coalesces to form a set of uniform limited coalescence domains having a plurality of electrically responsive optical states.
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