3m Innovative Properties Company

Solventum Intellectual Properties Company

3m Innovation Properties Company

Bharat R Acharya

Derek J Dehn

Clinton P Waller, Jr

Satinder K Nayar

Carl A Stover

Robert D Taylor

Gilles J Benoit

Quinn D Sanford

Matthew S Cole

Brandon Alan Bartling

Matthew E Sousa

Huijie Xie

David A Rosen

Lin Zhao

Fan Long

Zhe Hu

Benjamin J Forsythe

John Allen Wheatley

William Blake Kolb

Matthew S Stay

Tri Dinh Pham

David T Yust

Jaewon Kim

Anthony M Renstrom

Jason S Petaja

Jeremy O Swanson

Bradley L Givot

Michael S Graff

Jingfei Chen

Joseph P Attard

Paul T Hines

Lisa A DeNicola

Qunyi Chen

Jerald K Rasmussen

Charles L Bruzzone

Jathan D Edwards

Yong K Wu

Matthew R D Smith

Edward S Hagermoser

Noah O Shanti

Fabian Stolzenburg

Zhiping Liu

Andrew J Carlson

Audrey A Sherman

Ronald David Jesme

Gary Timothy Boyd

Tao Zhang

Zhaohui Yang

William J Kopecky

Tao Liu

Kevin W Gotrik

Caleb T Nelson

Jason W Bjork

Badri Veeraraghavan

Edward J Kivel

Feng Zhao

David J Rowe

Jeremy M Higgins

Xue Mao

Jennifer J Sokol

Theresa J Gerten

Sergei A Manuilov

Jeanne M Bruss

Audrey S Forticaux

Clint J Novotny

Matthew Rd Smith

Dawn V Muyres

Mingxing Wang

Yang Liu

Tuhua Chen

Yifei Zheng

Jing Fei Chen

Mark August Roehrig

John A Wheatley

Shine Long

Hailiang Hou

Xiulong Men

Clinton P Waller

A display system for imaging a user body portion includes a display panel, an optical sensor disposed on the display panel and configured to detect light reflected by the user body portion, and an optical stack disposed between the display panel and the optical sensor. The optical stack includes a first optical reflector and a light collimating film. The light collimating film includes a plurality of substantially coplanar alternating first and second regions. For an incident light, a visible wavelength range, and an infrared wavelength range, and for each of a first incident angle of less than about 5 degrees and a second incident angle of between about 40 degrees and about 70 degrees, the plurality of polymeric layers has an average optical reflectance of greater than about 70% in the visible wavelength range and an optical transmittance of greater than about 30% in the infrared wavelength range.

Large area infrared sensor film

A housing () for an electronic device () includes an optical film () having an optical transmittance for substantially normally incident light having a band edge separating first and second wavelength ranges, where the first wavelength range extends from about 400 nm to about 700 nm and the second wavelength range is at least about 100 nm wide and disposed between about 800 nm and about 1100 nm. For substantially normally incident light, an average optical reflectance of the optical film is greater than about 90% in the first wavelength range, and an average optical transmittance of the optical film is greater than about 80% in the second wavelength range. For at least one frequency in a range of about 0.1 GHz to about 90 GHz and for substantially normally incident radiation, the optical film transmits at least about 95% of the incident radiation.

Optical stack and housing for electronic device

A film includes a polymeric material and a plurality of particles dispersed therein. The polymeric material includes a plurality of elongate polymeric elements oriented along substantially a same first direction and interconnecting the particles. A ratio of a volume of the plurality of particles to a volume of the polymeric material is at least 5. An elongate portion of at least a first elongate polymeric element in the plurality of elongate polymeric elements may conform to and be bonded to a first particle in the plurality of particles along an entire length of the elongate portion. The first elongate polymeric element may extend from the elongate portion at least to a second particle in the plurality of particles.

Film including polymeric elements interconnecting particles

An optical device for sensing a presence of an analyte in a person includes a light source, an optical stack, and a reader. The light source emits a first light having a first wavelength. The optical stack is placed on the a skin of the person and includes a sensor material and an optical filter. The sensor material emits a second light having a second wavelength when irradiated with the first light. An optical property of the second light is sensitive to the presence of the analyte. The optical filter is disposed on the sensor material and includes at least ten microlayers. The optical filter has different first and second transmittances at the respective first and second wavelengths.

Optical stack, optical device and optical construction

An optical construction includes an optical film between first and second prismatic films, which each include pluralities of parallel, linear first and second prisms. Each of the first and second prisms have opposing first and second sides extending from first and second ends of a base of the prism and meeting at a peak. The first and second sides make first and second base angles with the base of the prism. The peaks of the prismatic films face away from each other and the optical film. For a collimated, normally incident light, for at least a first wavelength in a first wavelength range, and for each of first and second polarization states: the optical film has an optical transmission of less than about 1%, and the optical construction transmits at least 1% of the incident light at an oblique angle greater than 5 degrees with respect to the optical film.

Azimuthally anisotropic polarization sensitive optical filter

A display system for sensing a finger of a user applied to the display system includes a display panel; a sensor for sensing the finger; a sensing light source configured to emit a first light having a first wavelength W1; and a reflective polarizer disposed between the display panel and the sensor. For a substantially normally incident light, an optical transmittance of the reflective polarizer versus wavelength for a first polarization state has a band edge such that for a first wavelength range extending from a smaller wavelength L1 to a greater wavelength L2 and including W1, where 30 nm≤L2−L1≤50 nm and L1 is greater than and within about 20 nm of a wavelength L3 corresponding to an optical transmittance of about 50% along the band edge, the optical transmittance has an average of greater than about 75%.

Display system with finger sensing

An optical construction includes a first chamber including one or more first walls disposed inside a second chamber including one or more second walls. The first chamber includes a first top and an opposite closed first bottom. The second chamber includes an open second top proximate the open first top and an opposite second bottom proximate the closed first bottom. At least a portion of the one or more second walls includes a plurality of microlayers numbering at least 20 in total. The at least the portion of the one or more second walls faces, and is spaced apart by a non-zero gap from, a corresponding at least a portion of the one or more first walls. The non-zero gap is filled with a material having a lower index of refraction than at least an outermost surface of the at least the portion of the one or more second walls.

Optical system and optical construction

A display system includes visible light emitting first devices configured to emit a first light having at least a first visible wavelength; ultraviolet light emitting second devices configured to emit a second light having at least a second ultraviolet wavelength; a display panel disposed on the first and second devices; and a reflective polarizer disposed between the display panel and the first and second devices, such that the reflective polarizer has, for the visible wavelength, an average optical reflectance of greater than about 50% when an incident light is polarized along an in-plane first direction and an average optical transmittance of greater than about 50% when the incident light is polarized along an in-plane orthogonal second direction; and an optical transmission of greater than about 30% for the at least the second wavelength and for at least one of the first and second polarization states.

Display systems using IR and UV transparent optical films

A polymer matrix composite comprising a porous polymeric network; and a plurality of functional particles distributed within the polymeric network structure, and wherein the polymer matrix composite has an air flow resistance at 25° C., as measured by the 'Air Flow Resistance Test,' of less than 300 seconds/50 cm/500 micrometers; and wherein the polymer matrix composite has a density of at least 0.3 g/cm; and methods for making the same. The polymer matrix composites are useful, for example, as filters.

Polymer matrix composites comprising functional particles and methods of making the same

An optical construction () includes a lightguide (), a transmissive reflector (), and an optical sensor (). The lightguide () includes a first major surface () and a second major surface () opposite to the first major surface (). The first major surface () includes a first portion () and an adjoining second portion (). The transmissive reflector () is disposed adjacent to the first major surface () of the lightguide (). The optical sensor () is disposed adjacent to the transmissive reflector () opposite to the lightguide (). The optical sensor () is aligned with the first portion () of the first major surface () of the lightguide (), such that the optical sensor () receives at least a portion of light passing through the first portion () of the first major surface () and transmitted by the transmissive reflector (). The optical construction () further includes an enclosed gap () disposed between the first portion () of the first major surface () of the lightguide () and the transmissive reflector ().

Optical construction

A backlight including a front reflector disposed on a back reflector and defining a cavity therebetween. For a visible wavelength range and for a first incident angle of less than 5 degrees, the front reflector has an average transmittance of less than 20% for the incident light polarized along a first direction, and an average transmittance of between 20% and 85% for the incident light polarized along an orthogonal second direction. For a visible wavelength range and for a second incident angle of greater than 40 degrees, the front reflector has an average transmittance of less than 40% for each of the first and second directions. For at least a first wavelength in an infrared wavelength range, the front reflector has a transmittance of greater than about 40% for each of the first and second incident angles and for each of the first and second directions. For each of the first and second incident angles, for the incident light polarized along each of the first and second directions, the back reflector has a transmittance of greater than 30% for the first infrared wavelength, and an average transmittance of less than 20% in the visible range.

Backlight with collimating reflective polarizer

An optical stack () includes a substrate (), a radio-wave anti-reflection sheet () configured to reduce reflection from the optical stack () of radio waves at a predetermined operating frequency (f), and a visible light reflective, infrared light transmissive multilayer optical film () disposed between the radio-wave anti-reflection sheet () and the substrate (). For radiation substantially normally incident on the radio-wave anti-reflection sheet () and for a first frequency range at least 20 GHZ wide, centered on the predetermined operating frequency (f), and disposed between about 1 GHZ and about 120 GHZ, a return loss of the optical stack () is asymmetric about the predetermined operating frequency (f) in the first frequency range. The optical stack () has a largest return loss SL in the first frequency range of less than −10 dB and a difference between the largest return loss SL and a smallest return loss SS in the first frequency range is less than about 2 dB.

Optical stack including multilayer optical film and radio-wave anti-reflection sheet

A magnetic shielding film includes opposing first and second major surfaces and a plurality of particles dispersed therebetween, each particle having a magnetic permeability, a thickness H along a thickness direction of the particle, and a longest dimension L along a length direction of the particle orthogonal to the thickness direction, L/H greater than or equal to 2, the particles defining a plurality of voids therebetween, the length directions of at least 60% of the particles oriented within 5.5 degrees of a same orientation direction.

Orientation of magnetic fillers to optimize film properties

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Bharat R Acharya