High-power UV lamps for industrial UV curing applications
Abstract
UV Curing is highly adaptable to printing, coating, decorating and assembling of a great variety of products and materials owing to some of its key attributes, it is: a low temperature process, a high speed process, and a solventless process--cure is by polymerization rather than by evaporation. The latest developments in UV lamps for industrial processing are presented. Among these are: (1) the selection and control of the lamp emission spectra to match the optical properties of the film and its photoinitiator, (2) sustained high power lamp operation at 6 kilowatts, and (3) the use of absorptive dichroic reflectors to manage the relative components of UV and infrared energy in the highly focused radiation delivered to surfaces being processed.
- Publication:
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Ultraviolet Atmospheric and Space Remote Sensing: Methods and Instrumentation
- Pub Date:
- November 1996
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1996SPIE.2831..208S