Dichroic glass

Dichroic glass, also known under the name of color effect glass, altered by illumination, sun, clouds, or by the viewing angle color. As a dichroic (from the Greek " you roos " = bicolor) are called filters, allow certain wavebands and reflect the other. This has the result that, depending on angle of view of a different color is displayed, the light not absorbed and converted into heat.

The dichroic glass consists of several optical interference layers. By combining high - and low-refractive layers creates a rainbow effect. The colors are visualized by a dichroic filter, cover almost the entire color spectrum - both the additive (red, green, blue ) and the subtractive (yellow, magenta, cyan ) inks.

Specifications

Dichroic glass is usually used in dual or triple bond. In the interior area, or in the art can be used as single glazing the glass in the double or composite. Dichroic glass is manufactured in the dip-coating method. The coating solutions are converted at 480 ° C in adherent metal oxide layers that make the glass more resistant. The layers are tough, scratch resistant and highly resistant to chemicals.

Areas of application

Dichroic glass is used by architects, designers object, façade designers and artists. Inside, you will find it at doors in the room partition or decorative art. In the outdoor use dichroic glass used in facades and art elements in the architecture. Moreover, it is often found in public buildings, sculptures and bridges.

Practice examples

Dichroic glass is due to its diverse Farbfacette often Kunstbau used. An unusual example is the luxury liner Freedom of the Seas. Parts of the facade are provided with golden shimmering glass surfaces, so that the balconies of some suites are dipped in golden light. The three identical candlesticks Opera Copenhagen are an exceptional example of art with dichroic glass. The total of 4,500 individual glass surfaces of filter and laminated safety glass to see because of their hundred-fold reflection depending on the angle of different color. Also dichroic glass was the designed of the Icelandic artist Ólafur Elíasson honeycomb-like envelope of 2011 opened Concert Hall and Conference Centre Harpa in Reykjavik for use.