MY Polymers

Materials for Optical Communications Components

MY Polymers offers a wide range of materials for Optical Communications and networking. We continuously adapt our products to the fast-changing requirements of the Optical Communications industry. Our products can be found in Optical Transceivers, PLC Splitters, V-Groove Arrays, and Integrated Photonic Circuits.

In addition, MY Polymers has a wide selection of UV-cured products, Moisture-cured Coatings, and high bond strength low index lamination adhesives.

Some relevant UV cured products include MY-130, MY-133-V2000, RCT-136, MY-136-V2000, MY-136, MY-140, LM-146-NI, MY-150, and many more.

The UV-cured products are the largest group of products, with many different properties, such as refractive index, adhesion, modulus, etc.

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Product RI @ 950nm Adhesion g/cm Elastic Mod. MPa Viscosity CPS
LM-142-NI

1.417

1000 28

3200

LM-142-NI-10

1.407

650 22

5400

LM-146-NI

1.454

200 35

1700

SIL-143

1.428

150 20

1400 – 1800

 

 

LAM-134/135/136 Low RI Lamination Adhesives

The new LAM-134, LAM-135 and LAM-136 lamination adhesives have a unique combination of low index (1.35) and a

very strong adhesion to plastic films (PET, PC) to PMMA, glasses and metal surfaces.

The material is pure UV cured material, with no solvents, enabling simple application.

The material has various applications in both OLEd and LCD displays, such as improved directionality,

attaching adjacent  films to a PMMA light guide, attaching optical touch screens to the OLED or LCD module, etc.

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LM-155 RECOATING (Refractive Index = 1.55)

Announcing the new LM-155 Recoating (Index = 1.55)

LM-155, with a refractive index of 1.55, is now available!

This new resin, with its high adhesion and low modulus, is ideal for various recoating applications.

The low modulus helps in reducing stress during thermal cycling and under thermal shock.

This feature, combined with the high bond strength, improves reliability.

Typical applications including recoating of splices, recoating of cascaded cladding power strippers, etc.

LM-155 is available now!

BIO-133 enables diverse apps in microscopy

In a new paper by researchers from NIH, leading universities and ACUITYnano, BIO-133 is shown to enable multiple applications in fluorescence imaging.

The research covers the following issues:

(1) Characterization of BIO-133 for optical imaging in microfluidic/immobilization setups;

(2) Showing that diffraction-limited and super-resolution imaging is possible when using this material;

(3) Showing that high-resolution light-sheet microscopy with water-dipping objectives is fully compatible with microfluidic setups, a goal thought by many in the field to be impossible;

(4) Benchmarking performance on two cell lines, three microscope types, and live Drosophila and C. elegans tissue;

(5) Demonstrating that BIO-133 can be easily cast into multiple different immobilization/microfluidic setups.

To read the full paper in Biorxiv click the link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.04.324996v1.article-metrics

Easy Fabrication of Thin Membranes with Through Holes. Application to Protein Patterning

(Thomas Masters et al, August 2012)

 Description:

This publication describes the use of MY Polymers MY-133-DC (*) for micro-fabrication stencils for printing protein patterns. The researchers conclude that MY Polymers stencils allow highly reproducible patterning of proteins over large surfaces with micron-size resolution.

(*) MY-133-DC is now obsolete, and MY Polymers recommends the use of MY-133-V2000 for this application.

 

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High performance, LED-powered, waveguide-based total internal reflection microscopy

(Srinivasan Ramachandran et al, July 2013)

 Description:

This publication includes a description of using MY Polymers MY-133 (*) as a cladding material in high performance, LED-powered, waveguide-based, Total Internal Reflection Microscopy (TIRM).

(*) MY-133-V2000 is a new version of MY-133, with improved adhesion and mechanical properties.

 

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Cascaded Cladding Light Extracting Strippers for High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers

(Wei Guo et al, June 2014)

Description:

This publication describes the advantage of using cascaded cladding light strippers. Using a sequence of recoating materials, having a gradually higher refractive index, the heat is dissipated more uniformly along with the stripper. Instead of one high-temperature hot spot, there are several lower-temperature hot spots.

This design leads to lower temperatures, resulting in higher reliability.

Note: MY Polymers has a complete sequence of materials for cascaded light strippers (e.g. LM-142, LM-146, LM-150)

 

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High-resolution imaging of cellular processes across textured surfaces using an indexed-matched elastomer

(Andrea Ravasio et al, November 2014)

Description:

This publication describes the use of MY Polymers MY-134 (index = 1.34) for constructing a nano-textured surface for studying cell interaction with the environment. The match of MY-134 with the index of cells enables a significant improvement in imaging quality (*).

In this publication, the surface is covered by micro-pillars.

(*) BIO-134 is a new version of MY-134, which was designed for biological applications. It has significantly reduced cyto-toxicity and fluorescence.

 

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Soft lithography fabrication of index-matched microfluidic devices for reducing artifacts in fluorescence and quantitative phase imaging

(Diane N. H. Kim et al, December, 2017)

Description:

This publication describes the use of MY Polymers MY-133-V2000 (Refractive Index = 1.33) for constructing microfluidic devices for biological applications (*). This enables index matching with an aqueous solution, which significantly reduces optical distortions in fluorescence imaging and in quantitative phase imaging. The publication includes a detailed description of the construction method.
(*) BIO-133 is a new version of MY-133-V2000, which was designed for biological applications. It has significantly reduced cyto-toxicity and fluorescence.

 

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Direct characterization of the evanescent field in objective-type total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy

(Christian Niederauer et al, August 2018)

Description:

This publication describes the use of MY Polymers MY-133-MC (index=1.33) for producing a calibration slide that enables to characterize the excitation field in Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy. The slide is coated by gradually thicker layers of MY-133-MC. This is done by dip coating the slide several times, by partially overlapping layers of the material.

(MY-133-MC is Moisture Cured. There is no need for a UV light source and inert atmosphere).

 

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