Simplifying Metal Oxides Deposition™

Revolutionary Formulations

Phosio is developing UV-curable metal oxide precursors, allowing deposition at ultra-low temperatures (as low as 100°C), a significant improvement over sol-gel methods. PhosioLux® products are compatible with various solution-based deposition techniques such as spin coating and slot die coating, enabling rapid deposition at a lower cost compared to vapor deposition methods. PhosioLux® products can be patterned with direct UV exposure using UV, DUV and to be added soon, EUV. This platform technology finds applications in optics, semiconductors, displays, solar cells, batteries, sensors, LEDs, memory devices, supercapacitors, neuromorphic chips, and IoT devices.

The Market Need

Smart glasses are poised to become the next major tech platform, offering a seamless way to interact with AI. But to succeed, they must be lightweight, responsive, and affordable; something current manufacturing struggles to deliver.

A key obstacle is the optical grating, the small component that displays images in your field of view. Today’s methods for making these components are slow, expensive, and hard to scale. This leaves manufacturers stuck between high performance at a high cost, or lower-cost options that underperform resulting bulky devices.

Solving this challenge is the key to making smart glasses affordable and mainstream. Our new scalable way to produce high-quality optical gratings can unlock the next generation of everyday, AI-powered wearables.

The Solution

Phosio makes it faster, cheaper, and easier to produce the key materials needed for advanced displays and optical components. Today’s methods are either too slow and expensive or require complicated extra steps. Phosio’s breakthrough changes that; our process cuts production time by up to 100 times and reduces costs by as much as 90%. Our materials work at low temperatures, so they can be used on flexible, lightweight surfaces like plastic. They can also be patterned easily using standard tools, without extra steps like etching or masking.

With Phosio, manufacturers can simplify production and build high-quality optical components more efficiently. This opens the door to affordable, high-performance smart glasses and other next-generation devices.

Enabling Hardware for AI

Smart glasses are expected to be the next major technology platform, just like smartphones were 15 years ago. They will let people interact with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital content in real time, hands-free, and without looking down at a screen. As AI becomes a bigger part of everyday life, smart glasses will be the most natural and powerful way to connect people with technology. Phosio is helping make this future possible.

Our patented materials are used in the tiny display systems inside smart glasses. These advanced coatings have tunable refractive indices (n = 1.20 to 2.60) and deliver crystal-clear optical quality across the full visible spectrum, without yellowing or haze. This means brighter images, wider fields of view, and better overall performance, while also allowing glasses to be smaller, lighter, and more comfortable to wear.

Phosio solves one of the hardest problems in AR hardware: how to deliver high-quality visuals in a compact form factor. As smart glasses move closer to mass-market adoption, Phosio’s technology gives manufacturers the performance they need and the scalability to build for hundreds of millions.

PhosioLux™ Products

PhosioLux® products help engineers and designers build the next generation of advanced electronics and optics. At the core of our innovation is a family of transparent, UV-curable metal oxide precursors, designed to meet the rigorous demands of next-generation technologies. Our materials make it possible to build thinner, more efficient components used in technologies like Augmented Reality (AR), OLED and MicroLED displays, Lidar, and biochips. These same materials are also helping to shape the future of transparent transistors in the semiconductor industry.

At Phosio, we develop smart metal oxide materials that are transparent, UV-curable, durable, and processed at low temperatures, making them ideal for flexible, next-generation devices. Our team moves quickly to prototype and test new materials, working closely with partners to meet specific needs. Research and development takes place at the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Institute (ATAMI) at Oregon State University, where we deliver high-performance materials for advanced technologies.

If you're interested in discovering how we can assist you in overcoming your engineering challenges with our UV-curable metal-oxide thin films, please feel free to contact us here.  

Industries

  • Semiconductor

  • Augmented Reality - Smart Glasses

  • OLED and µLED

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