Technical Resources
Jul 11, 2007
Designing With Silicone Materials
This document focuses on product design with silicone materials. This document uses the technical knowledge and experience of NuSil Technology’s staff and provides links to additional online resources.
Aug 8, 2006
Aerospace Bibliography
This document provides a list of published documents referencing NuSil Technology products.
Jul 7, 2006
Facts About Engineering Developmental Materials
Although we have a broad line of standard silicone-based materials, we constantly strive to develop new materials that bring new properties and superior performance to an advancing market. In order to maintain our ISO quality standards, ‘developmental’ materials follow a different path than our standard products.
Jun 24, 2004
Silicone Terms and Definitions
This document provides definitions and explanations of terms related to various material types, characteristics and preparation techniques related to silicone technology.
Jan 8, 2003
Material Conversion
Dispensing or applying curing materials directly from a single container into an optical assembly is often more convenient, particularly in production settings. This Application Note provides some guidelines for converting Lightspan’s curing twopart materials to one-part materials for dispensing from a single container.
Jan 8, 2003
Improving Light Extraction from LEDs
The efficiency that light passes from LED dies into surrounding encapsulations or lens structures limits LED light output. This Application Note provides design guidance regarding the quantitative improvement in LED light output by encapsulating LED’s with high refractive index Lightspan optical gels or thermosets.
Jan 8, 2003
Index Matching Using Optical Polymers
Light partially reflects when encountering boundaries between media with different refractive indices. This Application Note provides design guidance regarding the optical performance improvement obtained by reducing such reflections through index matching, and addresses the special case of “quarter-wave matching”. Finally, this note provides a summary of refractive index data for optical materials.
Jan 8, 2003
Avoiding Cure Inhibition
Lightspan™ Optical Thermosets and Gels provide excellent optical, thermal, and mechanical properties. However, because of the cure chemistry, addition cure, some ingredients commonly found in certain adhesives, plastics, and elastomers adversely affect these products’ cure. This is true for all addition cure systems not just Lightspan Optical Thermosets and Gels. This Application Note offers guidance on avoiding cure inhibition and bubbles when using Lightspan Optical Materials.