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E. Environment Energy: PDLC Smart Windows

Polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) smart window technology enables life-space more comfortable. Cozy life-style through film-based light control technology

• Instant privacy by on/off
• Customized space by design
• UV light Protection function
• Minimum energy consumption, maximum privacy protection
• Creative display on windows when you do the presentation with projection
• Enhanced product continuous developing benefiting with R&D based solution provider

Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) film is a smart window film that consists of a thin PDLC layer sandwiched between two transparent conductive substrates. PDLC is a composite of randomly distributed microdroplets of liquid crystalline(LC) materials in a polymer matrix. The LC domains can provide electro-optically controllable functions because of their orientation being influenced by an applied electrical field. When power-on, a PDLC becomes transparent because it allows light to pass because of the reorientation of LC within the droplets and matching of the refractive indices of LC and polymer. When power-off, a PDLC appears opaque because it strongly scatters light because of the refractive index mismatch between the LC droplets and the polymer matrix.