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Operating profit slumped 29 percent at the display and graphics business, which serves manufacturers of liquid-crystal-display televisions with optical films.
The company has more than 40 of what it calls technology platforms — core technologies in areas like optical films, reflective materials, abrasives and adhesives — that can potentially be combined and applied to meet a range of needs in different markets.
Now, manufacturers are tweaking the molecules in the layers in optical films to a previously unimaginable degree, resulting in products like glare-reducing light polarizers from Optiva, a start-up in South San Francisco, Calif.
3M sees potential applications in optical films, self-cleaning glass and dentistry.Thus far, large firms are mostly drawing on outside research, much as big drug firms buy in biotech, says Sean Murdock of AtomWorks, a nanotech research and development organisation.
Visteon's visit to the innovation center, combined with follow-up collaboration, led to the idea of using 3-D technology from 3M for navigation displays, Thinsulate materials to reduce noise and optical films to hide functional elements of the dashboard unless the driver wants them displayed.
So the company launched a line of cosmetics, called Astalift, which is sold in Asia and is being launched in Europe this year.Fujifilm also sought new outlets for its expertise in film: for example, making optical films for LCD flat-panel screens.
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3M makes optical film used in the screens.
For example, 3M in St . Paulhas developed an optical film coupled to banks of light-emitting diodes, or L.E.D.'s mounted within the left and right sides of the display, said Erik Jostes, director of the company's optical systems division.
Sony says they reduced power consumption by enhancing backlight emission and light transmission of optical film.
A new scheme of optical film sensor is presented.
With these molds, UV (ultraviolet) curable resin was used to make double-sided optical film.
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