Electroluminescent technology provides innovative dashboard lighting for Italian sports car
LuxPrint™ pastes and DuPont™ polyester film work together for high-performance lighting solution.
Application Description
Italdesign of Moncalieri, Italy, designed its Scighera prototype sports car with a host of innovative features, including a unique backlighting system for the dashboard.
Standard dashboards currently use LEDs and complicated light channels to diffuse the point light source. But the Scighera’s dash features slim, flexible and lightweight electroluminescent (EL) lamps that light up 20 different functions, including the engine monitoring system. The lamps provide effective, uniform illumination of shaped and uneven surfaces; resist shocks and vibrations; and do not heat up or fail without warning like conventional lamps.
Materials Selected and Why
Pieffepi Vision of Pavia, Italy, produces these electroluminescent lamps for Italdesign by screen-printing DuPont LuxPrint™ pastes onto a special grade of DuPont™ polyester film coated with indium tin oxide (ITO). Microencapsulated phosphors render the pastes damp-proof and extend their operating life.
