Product category: Displays
News Release from: Pelikon | Subject: Glass-like finish for pSEL
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 1 March 2007
Glass-like finish for EL touchscreens
Printed segmented electroluminescent displays support a novel glass-like finish
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Continuing to design unique, eye-catching display technology, Pelikon, the Cardiff-based manufacturer of printed segmented electroluminescent (pSEL) displays, has announced support for a new glass-like finish, compatible with its pSEL technology. This brand new innovation will allow white good manufacturers to offer a display on their products resembling glass, but at much lower cost and with less technical complexity.
The glass-like finish, which can be manufactured from polycarbonate or other suitable materials, offers a rigid high transparency fascia and can be up to 2.5 times lighter than glass.
The finish is also durable, shatter proof, easily wiped clean and when touched, still depresses by 50um, meaning a complex capacitance sensor system is not required.
Pelikon pSEL touch-screen technology is placed underneath the glass-like finish, meaning the manufacturing process much easier.
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In a market where consumers are conscious of design-led products, this innovation is an attractive alternative to using glass in the manufacture process.
Pelikon's technology offers segmented and animated displays, now with the added benefit of a hard yet touch-sensitive finish.
'Glossy, durable finishes offered by glass displays are currently popular with an increasingly design-focused consumer base', said Andrew Green, Product Manager, Pelikon.
'For white good manufacturers looking to emulate the popularity of this type of display, without the cost or technical intricacies of creating a display using glass, Pelikon can work to design a glass-like finish which is touch-sensitive and low cost'.
'Our products are already touch-screen, and are also segmented, meaning only areas of the display that are required illuminate'.
Pelikon will work with its customers to enable them to create this new glass-like finish, designed to compliment existing pSEL products, which have a softer frontage.
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