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Although it is necessary to specify wavelength ranges when designing/ordering anti reflective coatings, good performances can frequently be achieved for comparatively wide frequency ranges. Choices offered usually include IR (infra-red), visible and UV (ultra-violet). The question is, where did it all begin?

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Consisting of thin transparent film structures, many AR coatings have layers of alternating contrasting refractive indexes. The thickness of layers is selected to generate destructive interference within beams reflected from interfaces, as well as constructive interference within corresponding transmitted beams. Making the structure’s performance alter with incident angles and wavelengths, this frequently causes colour effects to appear at oblique angles.

In 1904, a chemical method of producing AR coatings was developed by British inventor/optical designer Harold Dennis Taylor (Cooke Company), followed by the invention and development of:

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The surface tarnish replaced the interface between air and glass with two new, air-tarnish and tarnish-glass interfaces. Due to the tarnish having a refractive index between glass and air, these two interfaces each exhibited less reflection than a clean air-glass interface. The total of these two interfaces’ reflections is, in fact, less than the reflection of a ‘naked’ interface between air and glass, which can be calculated via the Fresnel Equations.

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As the name suggests, anti reflective (AR) coatings are optical coatings applied to the surfaces of optical elements, lenses, etc. to reduce reflection. Improving the efficiency of typical imaging systems (reduced reflections means reduced loss of light), AR coatings also improve complex systems’ (microscopes, telescopes, etc.) contrast of images by eliminating stray light, which is particularly important for planetary astronomy.

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Development of AR coatings continued over the coming decades and in 2002, Diamond Coatings established its first ITO and AR Coating manufacturing plant in the Midlands, UK. Operations were expanded to Arizona, USA in 2016 and today, Diamond Coatings is a leading supplier of AR & ITO coatings to world-wide industries including:

The "objective lens" is the first-stage lens to form an image using electrons exiting from the specimen. The objective lens is the most important lens in the imaging lens system because the performance of this lens determines the image quality (resolution, contrast, etc). A good objective lens has both a small spherical aberration (Cs) coefficient and a small chromatic aberration (Cc) coefficient. To decrease these coefficients, shortening the distance between the two magnetic poles and decreasing the bore diameter of the polepiece are required. Since the side-entry-type specimen holder is inserted between the two magnetic poles, there is a limitation on shortening the distance. For the top-entry-type specimen holder, an asymmetric polepiece whose upper bore diameter is larger than that of the lower one is used.

The first, and simplest, type of AR coating was discovered in 1886 by British Physicist and Nobel Prize Winner (physics, 1904) John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (Lord Rayleigh). Upon testing some old, tarnished glass pieces (chemical reactions between the environment and the optical glass of his time tended to cause surface tarnishing on glass as it aged), Lord Raleigh found that – to his surprise – these tarnished pieces transmitted more light than clean, new pieces.

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Before going into the history of AR coatings, allow us to begin by looking at what exactly an anti reflective coating is…

Fig. The objective lens consists of a polepiece to determine the magnetic-field of the lens, a yoke to create a magnetic path, and a copper wire coil. The coil is wound in the yoke around the circumference of the optical axis. A magnetic field is generated by the electric current passing through the coil and a magnetic flux is generated in the yoke. Then, a leakage magnetic field is created in vacuum from the polepiece attached to the end of the yoke. The polepiece of the lens is made of a magnetic component and has a gap to create a leakage magnetic field. As is seen in Figure, the polepiece is cylindrically symmetric and an electron beam passes through the center of the polepiece. The leakage magnetic field (B) has a curvature (shown in Figure) and acts as a lens to converge the electron beam. The strength of the lens can be varied by changing the electric current of the coil. A specimen usually set on a side-entry type holder is placed in the magnetic field (lens) produced by the polepiece. The polepiece determines the performance of the lens, that is, the strength and shape of the magnetic field of the lens. Thus, the polepiece is made of a high-quality magnetic material than that of the yoke and is processed by high precision machining. The objective lens is requested to possess a stronger magnetic field than the intermediate lens, etc., because the focal length of the objective lens is shorter than the other lens. To meet this requirement, the objective lens is made of a magnetic material with a large saturation magnetization. The objective lens used for high spatial-resolution observation requires a further-stronger magnetic field to decrease the aberration of the lens. For this purpose, a polepiece with a narrow gap (a short distance between the upper and lower poles) is used. On the other hand, the objective lens used for element analysis uses a polepiece with a little wider gap at a little sacrifice of image resolution because a more space is needed for an EDS detector to place close to the specimen for increasing the detection efficiency or to ensure a large tilt angle of the specimen.

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Elimination of reflection is itself the primary benefit for many applications, including, for instance, coatings to reduce the glint from telescopic sights or the binoculars of covert viewers, and coatings on the lenses of eyeglasses.

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Of particular benefit is the large size of the parts that Diamond Coatings can apply AR coatings to. We can anti-reflect parts up to 1m x 1m, which is much larger than typical for the coating industry.