ACW has been designing, developing and manufacturing imprint lithography resins for two decades, since back when they were known as 2P resins. Our advances in the areas of working stamps and high refractive index (RI) resins have brought us to the point that we can provide the total package for UV nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) applications Read More…
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News & Blog
ACW will be at JPCA 2024 in Tokyo and NNT 2024 in Lund, Sweden
JPCA 2024, June 12-14. ACW will have a booth at the 2024 JPCA Show at the Tokyo Big Sight. (JPCA-2024) Stop by to learn about ACW’s products. For optoelectronics applications, ACW will feature low outgas epoxy adhesives used in active alignment. For UV-NIL (nanoimprint lithography), ACW will feature high refractive index NIL resins that now Read More…
ACW’s UV-Stabilized High RI UV NIL Resins for AR/VR/MR Applications
Addison Clear Wave announces the release of a new family of high RI UV NIL resins targeted for AR/VR/MR applications. The LuxNIL® U resins exhibit order of magnitude increased UV stability compared to conventional high RI UV NIL resins as evaluated in “sunlight” exposure studies. The attached whitepaper compares the new LuxNIL® U resins with Read More…
Addison Clear Wave’s PFAS-free Epoxy Working Stamp Resins
Addison Clear Wave has released two new PFAS-free epoxy working stamp resins for UV lens molding and similar applications, WS-104 and WS-105. These resins can be cast on glass or PET backplanes from metal master molds using a conventional anti-stick material. The working stamps thus made have high water contact angles and can be used Read More…
UV-NIL for augmented reality / virtual reality / mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) waveguides
In collaborative work, Addison Clear Wave and EV Group demonstrated commercially viable UV-NIL manufacturing processes. SmartNIL® processing of LuxNIL® resins gave the following results. Refractive Index: 1.82 – 1.96 at 633 nm Resolution: 50 nm Height Gain: 0.64 – 0.80 nm average for 25 imprints Download the jointly issued Whitepaper for details of the process Read More…
High Resolution, High Refractive Index Nano-Imprint Lithography with Sub-nm Height Gain
ACW teamed up with EV Group to demonstrate a new standard of performance for wafer-level high RI UV nano-imprint lithography (UV-NIL) for augmented/virtual/mixed reality applications. Using EV Group’s SmartNIL® process and ACW’s high RI LuxNIL® resins, the team achieved 50 nm resolution imprints with RI as high as 1.96 at 633 nm and sub-nm average Read More…
ACW Releases Photo-cure Stamp Resins for Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL)
Photo Nanoimprint Lithography (P-NIL) promises to be a rapid and low cost methodology for manufacturing optical, electronic and optoelectronic micro-scale and nano-scale devices. One obstacle for the methodology is the high cost of molds or masters that will have a finite lifetime in terms of multiple copies. The work-around for this cost is to use Read More…
ACW High Refractive Index Materials for Nano-Imprint Lithography for AR/VR/MR
High refractive index (RI) materials are employed for production of quality diffractive optical elements (DOE) used in augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) devices and a variety of optical sensors. Higher RI DOEs provide wider fields of view (FOV), and low-cost mass production of DOEs with RIs greater than 1.7 can be accomplished using photo Read More…
Very High Refractive Index Resins for P-NIL Applications
ACW introduces a new line of LuxNIL® very high RI resins for P-NIL VR/AR/MR applications or other thin coatings. These resins are hybrid organic/inorganic, low viscosity formulations containing PGMEA. They are suitable for spin coating, gravure coating, or ink-jetting to give thicknesses of 100 nm to 3 microns after evaporation of the PGMEA. The cured Read More…
New Low Refractive Index Resins from ACW
Are you looking for a low refractive index resin for cladding, anti-reflection, or nanoimprint lithography applications? Addison Clear Wave is introducing a new line of low RI materials with robust physical properties for your consideration. The first release in the series is R272 which cures to a film with a Tg of 90 °C and Read More…