Anti-Reflective Coatings
Rethinking Anti‑Reflective Performance
Traditional anti‑reflective coatings rely on multilayer interference stacks tuned for narrow angles or specific wavelengths, limiting their effectiveness on vertical glass or devices exposed to varying lighting conditions. These coatings can introduce reflections at off‑angles, degrade over time, and offer only incremental improvements in transmission. By using engineered nanoscale surface structures rather than interference layers, our coatings maintain low reflectance and high transmission across a wide range of angles, making them well‑suited for architectural glass, advanced optics, and next‑generation solar windows.
Standard Glass (Left) vs. Anti-Reflective Coated Glass (Right)
Higher Transmission and Enhanced Performance
Enkara’s Anti‑Reflective Coatings (ARC) are engineered using nano‑structured optical surfaces that significantly reduce reflection and increase light transmission across a broad range of wavelengths and incidence angles. Developed from years of research at Brookhaven National Laboratory and now licensed exclusively to Enkara, these advanced materials—originally inspired by naturally occurring nanostructures—deliver superior optical clarity and efficiency for both transparent photovoltaic devices and high‑performance conventional optics.
By eliminating the reliance on delicate multilayer interference stacks, our nano‑structured surfaces maintain stable, low‑reflectance performance under real‑world lighting conditions, ensuring consistent optical quality and higher energy throughput throughout the lifetime of the system.
Tunable for Space and Extreme Environments
Satellites rely on sunlight as their primary energy source yet lose substantial power due to reflections from conventional cover glass, an issue made worse in fast‑growing low‑Earth‑orbit (LEO) markets where traditional AR coatings often peel or degrade. Enkara’s omnidirectional nano‑structured anti‑reflective technology addresses both challenges by maintaining extremely low reflectance across all incidence angles, boosting energy output by up to 25% under unfavorable lighting conditions while eliminating the failure modes associated with multilayer interference stacks. Integrated directly into space‑qualified cover glass without adding foreign materials, Enkara’s ARC offers a robust, stable, and non‑peeling solution engineered for the full spectrum of mission environments.
