7.3: Holographic Antiglare and Antireflection Films for Flat Panel Displays

Antiglare AG and low- or anti-reflection LR, AR are important optical features of the front surfaces of flat panel displays and other information displays. New types of holographic surface relief microstructures have been developed on large areas showing very good optical properties. Holographic exposure techniques give the freedom to carefully design AG properties. They also allow the superposition of different types of structures, e.g. a Motheye AR and an AG microstructure MARAG ™ 1, which can be produced very cost-effectively by mass UV precision nano-replication UV-PNR. As a bonus, the UV-PNR structures are hardcoat materials suitable for the real world.