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| 3M\'s Optical Systems Division has won an award for its Vikuiti Dual Brightness Enhancement Film (DFEF) for LCD panels.
The company received the Alliance to Save Energy\'s \"Innovative Star of Energy Efficiency\" award, one of seven award categories, for an emerging technology or service that could potentially transform a sector of the energy efficiency market but that is also still in its early stages.
Vikuiti is a reflective polarizer; essentially, it\'s a multi-layer film that recycles light normally absorbed by the polarizer inside LCD TVs and monitors. The idea is to reduce the number of watts required for a given brightness level; currently, it lets manufacturers eliminate two or more bulbs in the backlight assembly for each LCD monitor and TV for up to a 32 percent increase in energy efficiency.
The company said in a statement that Vikuiti DBEF has the potential to save as much as 101.7 billion kWh of energy in LCD TV\'s sold between 2006 and 2011. |
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