Process for making light guides with extraction structures and light guides produced thereby
US7941013B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 17, 2007 |
| Grant date | May 10, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 3, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B6/0065
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A process comprises imagewise exposing at least a portion of a photoreactive composition to light sufficient to cause simultaneous absorption of at least two photons/thereby inducing at least one acid- or radical-initiated chemical reaction where the composition is exposed to the light, the imagewise exposing being carried out in a pattern that is effective to define at least the surface of a plurality of light extraction structures. Each one of the array of light extraction structures has at least one shape factor; the shape factor may vary across the array. At least one light extraction structure may have the geometric configuration of a truncated asphere.
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