What Are The Advantages and Disadvantages of Smart Glass?

In our developed life today, we can see glass everywhere. Among the various types of glass, have you heard of smart glass? Smart glass is a new type of special photoelectric glass product with a sandwich structure that combines a liquid crystal film between two layers of glass and forms an integral body after high temperature and high pressure gluing. The user controls the transparency or opacity of the glass by controlling the on and off of the current.

The glass itself not only has all the characteristics of safety glass, but also has the privacy protection function of controlling whether the glass is transparent or not. Due to the characteristics of the liquid crystal film interlayer, the smart glass can also be used as a projection screen, replacing ordinary curtains, and presenting high-definition images on the glass.

Due to its adjustability, smart dimming glass is also used in buildings that require confidentiality or privacy protection. The window glass made of it is as convenient as curtains with electronic control devices. At present, the manufacturing cost of electrochromic glass windows is very high, and its application is limited.

 The functions of smart glass can be roughly divided into the following points:

1. Privacy protection function: The biggest function of smart dimming glass is privacy protection function, which can control the transparent and opaque state of glass at any time.

2. Projection function: Smart dimming glass is also a very good projection hard screen. In an environment with suitable light, the projection effect is very outstanding.

3. It has all the advantages of safety glass, including the safety performance of preventing fragments from splashing after breaking, good impact resistance, sound insulation, heat insulation, and more than 99% of ultraviolet rays.

4. When the power is turned off, the liquid crystal molecules in the electrically controlled dimming glass will be irregularly scattered, and the electrically controlled glass will present a transparent and opaque appearance; when the dimming glass is powered on, the liquid crystal molecules inside are neatly arranged, and light can penetrate freely. At this time, the dimming glass instantly becomes transparent.

Features of smart dimming glass:

A. Safety: Due to the use of laminated glass manufacturing process, the film in the dimming glass firmly bonds the glass, so that when the dimming glass is broken by impact, the glass fragments stick to the film in the middle, and there will be no glass fragments flying and hurting people.

B. Environmental protection features: The dimming film and film in the middle of the smart dimming glass can shield more than 90% of infrared and ultraviolet rays. Shielding infrared reduces heat radiation and transmission. Shielding ultraviolet rays can protect indoor furnishings from fading and aging due to ultraviolet radiation, and protect people from diseases caused by direct ultraviolet rays.

C. Sound insulation features: The dimming film and film in the middle of the smartdimming glass have a sound damping effect. It can effectively block all kinds of noise.

Widely applicable scenarios:

• Hotel application: can be used in bathroom.

• Office area: office, conference room, monitoring room, bank VIP room, hospital partition, etc.

• Multimedia applications such as museums, exhibition halls, shopping malls, conference rooms, etc.