Reflective Glass Supplier: Seeing Clearly with Anti-Reflective Coatings

Reflective Glass Supplier: Seeing Clearly with Anti-Reflective Coatings

Reflections can be a real nuisance. Whether it’s glare on a display, distorted views through a window, or lost light in optical instruments, unwanted reflections degrade performance and clarity. This is precisely where anti-reflective (AR) coatings from Diamond Coatings make a significant difference.

The Problem with Reflections

Glass, by its very nature, reflects a percentage of the light that hits its surface. This is why you see your own reflection in a window at night, or why screens can be hard to see in bright sunlight. For many applications, even a small amount of light loss or scattered reflection can have a major impact. Think about:

• Visual Instruments: Microscopes, binoculars, and telescopes need every photon of light to deliver sharp, clear images. Reflections inside the optics cause haze and reduce contrast.
• Spectacle Lenses: Ghosting and glare from reflections on glasses can be irritating and reduce visual comfort, especially at night.
• Solar Cells: Every bit of light reflected off the cell’s surface is energy lost, directly impacting efficiency.
• Microelectronic Photolithography: In this incredibly precise manufacturing process, controlling light is paramount; unwanted reflections can introduce errors.

Where Anti-Reflective Glass Shines

Our anti-reflective glass minimises this light loss, ensuring maximum transmission and reducing stray light. This makes it invaluable across a vast array of sectors:

• Medical Industry: Used extensively for instrument panels where clear readings are critical, and also for glass partitioning in sensitive environments like intensive care units and maternity wards, providing privacy without impeding visibility.
• Military Applications: High-quality AR glass is crucial for instrument panels in vehicles and aircraft, as well as large display screens in command centres, where clarity and stealth (by reducing detectable reflections) are paramount.
• Retail & Cultural Spaces: Found in retail display cases, museum showcases, and art galleries, anti-reflective glass ensures exhibits are seen clearly, free from distracting reflections that obscure details.
• Cinemas: Even the magic of the big screen benefits. Anti-reflective glass is used within the projector’s portal, ensuring the projected image suffers no loss of quality as it hits the screen.

High-Quality Anti-Reflective Solutions from Diamond Coatings

At Diamond Coatings, anti-reflective coatings are one of our core specialities. We’ve been producing a range of specialist coatings and supplying them to a global customer base for over two decades.

Alongside our AR coatings, we also supply hard coatings and Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) coatings. Our ITO can be applied to plastics, PET films, and glass, making the substrate transparent yet electrically conductive – perfect for applications like touchscreens and heated glass windows.

Our AR coating can be applied to plastics, thin PET films, and, of course, glass. On glass, our single-sided coating achieves 94% light transmission, while coating both sides boosts this to an impressive 96%, significantly reducing reflections.

Your Trusted Anti-Reflective Glass Supplier

We pride ourselves on offering a complete service. Once we have full details of your project, we can source the right glass for your application on your behalf, leveraging our strong relationships within the glass industry to offer competitive rates. The glass then comes to our custom-built coatings plant in the Midlands, where we apply the most suitable coating for your needs.

Expect nothing less than the very best in service and quality from Diamond Coatings. We are an ISO9001 accredited company, committed to continuous performance improvement.

To learn more about our anti-reflective products, their applications, or to discuss your specific requirements, please don’t hesitate to contact one of our experts. We’re here to help you achieve perfect clarity.