Led Glass Views

General Goods

Transparent LED embedded glass is a new composite material containing light emitting diodes (LED). It is used as building material and as glass type for many different products. This article is focusing on published[1],[2] specifications enabling building materials which will meet security and legislation aspects of laminated glass.

Because most of the glass companies are not skilled to mount LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) onto metallized glass, it makes sense to locate the LEDs on a separate transparent conductive polymeric interlayer[7],[8],[9] which may be laminated by any glass lamination unit. In other words, the remaining process for glass lamination units will consist of laminating together standard glass using 2 layers of thermoplastic interlayers to sandwich ready to use LED embedded films. The final specification will be:

Ingo Maurer ’s LED Table was on display at the ICFF and at the Ingo Maurer opening party last night. I can0’t stop staring at this table. I think its partly due to the B“oooh sparklyn” effect of a Xmas tree, and also because I can8’t figure out where the LEDs are getting their electricity from. It?s quite a startling effect. Although they are wedged between two sheets of glass, the LEDs appear to be floating in thin air. Ingo Maurer.’s website says: 278 white LEDs per table top, emitting light on both sides. 230/125 volts, 48 volts DC. INVISIBLE LIVE PARTS. There are tiny transparent wires embedded between the 2 sheets of glass, connecting the LEDs. The lights can be dimmed and even turned off if you suddenly want your LED table to look like a regular glass table again. --

I have looked closely at a sample of this technology. It loks like there is only one layer of conductive film. The electrical layer of the film seems to be cut (maybe with a laser) to produce a circuit. the LEDs are then attached to this rudimentary circuit, conductors added to the edge of the sheet and then laminated between sheets of glass.