Dow Corning photonics: the silicon advantage in automotive photonics

Terry V. Clapp; Rene Paquet; Ann Norris; Babette Pettersen

doi:10.1117/12.606332

16 February 2005 Dow Corning photonics: the silicon advantage in automotive photonics

Terry V. Clapp, Rene Paquet, Ann Norris, Babette Pettersen

Proceedings Volume 5663, Photonics in the Automobile; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.606332
Event: European Workshop on Photonics in the Automobile, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

The Automotive Market offers several opportunities for Dow Corning to leverage the power of silicon-based materials. Dow Corning Photonics Solutions has a number of developments that may be attractive for the emergent photonics needs in automobiles, building on 40 years of experience as a leading Automotive supplier with a strong foundation of expertise and an extensive product offering- from encapsulents and highly reliable resins, adhesives, insulating materials and other products, ensuring that the advantage of silicones are already well-embedded in Automotive systems, modules and components. The recent development of LED encapsulants of exceptional clarity and stability has extended the potential for Dow Corning’s strength in Photonics to be deployed “in-car”. Demonstration of board-level and back-plane solutions utilising siloxane waveguide technology offers new opportunities for systems designers to integrate optical components at low cost on diverse substrates. Coupled with work on simple waveguide technology for sensors and data communications applications this suite of materials and technology offerings is very potent in this sector. The harsh environment under hood and the very extreme thermal range that materials must sustain in vehicles due to both their engine and the climate is an applications specification that defines the siloxane advantage. For these passive optics applications the siloxanes very high clarity at the data-communications wavelengths coupled with extraordinary stability offers significant design advantage. The future development of Head-Up-Displays for instrumentation and data display will offer yet more opportunities to the siloxanes in Automotive Photonics.

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Terry V. Clapp, Rene Paquet, Ann Norris, and Babette Pettersen "Dow Corning photonics: the silicon advantage in automotive photonics", Proc. SPIE 5663, Photonics in the Automobile, (16 February 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.606332

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