{"id":155294,"date":"2023-01-12T20:23:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T02:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/optical-coating-approach-prevents-fogging-and-unwanted-reflections"},"modified":"2023-01-12T20:23:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T02:23:12","slug":"optical-coating-approach-prevents-fogging-and-unwanted-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/optical-coating-approach-prevents-fogging-and-unwanted-reflections","title":{"rendered":"Optical coating approach prevents fogging and unwanted reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/optical-coating-approach-prevents-fogging-and-unwanted-reflections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed an optical coating system that combines antifogging and antireflective properties. The new technology could help boost the performance of lidar systems and cameras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalking into a warm room from the cold outside can cause glasses to fog up, blinding the user,\u201d said research team leader Anne G\u00e4rtner from Fraunhofer Institute for <i>Applied Optics<\/i> and Precision Engineering and Friedrich Schiller University Jena, both in Jena, Germany. \u201cThe same can happen to sensors such as the lidar systems used in autonomous cars. It is important that surfaces remain highly transparent, even if fogging occurs, so that functionality is maintained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Applied Optics<\/i>, G\u00e4rtner and colleagues describe how they combined a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/polymer+coating\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">polymer coating<\/a> that prevents fogging with porous silicon dioxide nanostructures that reduce reflections. Although the coatings described in the paper were designed specifically for lidar systems, the technology can be tailored for many different applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed an optical coating system that combines antifogging and antireflective properties. The new technology could help boost the performance of lidar systems and cameras. \u201cWalking into a warm room from the cold outside can cause glasses to fog up, blinding the user,\u201d said research team leader Anne G\u00e4rtner from Fraunhofer Institute for Applied [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}