SCIVAX and Shin-Etsu Chemical Have Jointly Developed Amtelus®, the World’s Smallest Light Source Device for 3D Sensors
World’s smallest light source module Amtelus® (Photo: Business Wire)
World’s smallest light source module Amtelus® (Photo: Business Wire)
To solve this issue, Shin-Etsu Chemical has developed a high-hardness material that can be processed by dicing, and that has both necessary optical properties and a sealing capability to protect devices. Using this material, SCIVAX has successfully developed Amtelus®, the world’s smallest light source device that incorporates the functions of Platanus®. This device has achieved a significantly smaller size compared with conventional devices having a mounting area of 1 mm2 or less, 10 times smaller than conventional devices, and with half or less of the thickness.
The main features of Amtelus® are as follows:
·Minimum size
It minimizes the mounting area of a light-emitting device, enabling its application in devices such as AR glasses and smartphones, for which installation has been difficult. In addition, using multiple Amtelus® modules can achieve more precise sensing.
·Flexibility of light emission
The optical lens Platanus® can provide various types of irradiation fields with a high degree of design flexibility, enabling various types of irradiation, such as over a wide range of 140 degrees or more or with a high aspect ratio (120 deg × 30 deg). By using this technology, Amtelus® modules with various irradiation fields can be designed according to customers’ requests.
·Cost competitiveness
By utilizing advanced nanoimprint mass production technology, the lenses are integrated with the light source in a resin package, which provides higher cost competitiveness compared to conventional products.
Shin-Etsu Chemical and SCIVAX are considering expanding the applications of this technology in the future to various fields, such as next-generation life science, mainly vital sensors.
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Contact
SCIVAX Corporation
Optical device business Div.
Koichi Aida
+81-44-599-5051
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
Public Relations Dept.
Tetsuya Koishikawa
+81-3-6812-2340
