temicon’s shims can be welded to a sleeve. temicon has also been successful to produce seamless sleeves by means of laser-interference-lithography and electroforming.
One or several shims can be welded together to a sleeve depending on the size of the master/shim and the required sleeve size. The maximum possible sleeve size is about 1m width and 300mm diameter.
Sleeves with a diameter of approx. 180mm and width of 150mm are produced as “proof of concept”. Patterns like e.g. linear or circular diffusers, anti-glare or rainbow have been realized.
The target of an actual development project is the transfer of all available shim based micro- and nanostructures seamlessly onto sleeves and to scale-up the process to large sleeve widths.
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