Method of producing a diffractive optic element and the resulting element
AssigneeConductive Inkjet Technology Limited
InventorPhilip Gareth Bentley
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Abstract
A method of producing a diffractive optical element includes forming on a textured surface of a first substrate (2) a predetermined pattern of an ink (3) including an activator for a metallization reaction and one or more binders; causing or allowing the binder to solidify; applying a first adhesive layer (4) on top on the solidified binder and activator; securing a second substrate (5) to the adhesive layer; removing the second substrate with adhered solidified binder and activator from the first substrate; and forming a metal coating (10) onto the activator-containing regions adhered to the second substrate.
Claims15
A method of producing a diffractive optical element, comprising forming on a textured surface of a first substrate a predetermined pattern of an ink including an activator for a metallisation reaction and one or more binders;
- causing or allowing the binder to solidify;
- applying a first adhesive layer on top of the solidified binder and activator;
- securing a second substrate to the first adhesive layer;
- removing the second substrate with adhered solidified binder and activator from the first substrate;
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- forming a metal coating on the activator-containing regions adhered to the second substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.