Month: February 2020

Custom glass shower doors can greatly improve your facility or home. Whether you seek shower doors for your hospital, gym, or residence, Yuguang provides a full range of aesthetically pleasing custom shower door options that will outfit your bathroom with style and flair.

In this post, we look at different scenarios in which custom glass shower doors will bring your showers to the next level. We also discuss how you can customize your glass shower door to optimize its style, utility, and beauty.

Athletic Facilities and Gyms

As gyms grow bigger throughout the nation, more strain gets placed on their showering facilities. Most state-of-the-art gyms include showers, steam rooms, and saunas, creating a variety of needs for innovative glass door solutions. We offer products such as Switchable Glass, which can be changed from opaque to transparent with the flip of a switch.  Members can easily identify empty stalls, while still enjoying privacy while the shower is in use.  Gym employees can also control the translucency of the glass, setting the glass to be opaque during operating hours but clear during gym closings and maintenance periods. Colored interlayers can also lend a bright, clean appearance to clubs and are fully opaque.

Health Care Facilities

Our shower doors appear in health care settings including hospitals, nursing homes, and other long-term care facilities. Custom glass doors can turn dreary hospital rooms into more aesthetically pleasing environments. Fitting your medical facilities with custom glass shower doors will allow patients and other facility users to recuperate with dignity, aiding in a speedy recovery.

Residential Spaces

Our custom-made glass shower doors can help with your home renovations, as well. Our diverse glass texture and pattern offerings provide great additions to any home environment. Our shower doors will give your bathroom a distinctive feel that your family and guests will enjoy every day.

M3 Customization

We build our shower doors using a variety of in-house processes to size, print, paint, and polish each door to your specifications. In addition to offering Enduro-Shield coating for easier cleaning and maintenance, we can further enhance our glass with a series of custom printing and finishing capabilities that allow you to govern glass thickness and length and to achieve unique designs.

If you need a custom glass shower door made, look no further. Our Yuguang system enables us to include any printed design up to 720 dpi. You can even match existing styles or include corporate logos and branding as needed.

We offer diverse textures and patterns to accommodate designers looking for even more options. Instead of settling for a plain, standard shower door, our team can work with you to create customized, attractive alternatives featuring a mix of colors, printed graphics, textures, and patterns that result in one-of-a-kind products for your home or business.

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Our Texas-based facilities offer a wide variety of sizes and styles that use to tailor the perfect glass shower door. Download our eBook, The Complete Guide to Decorative Glass to learn about all the treatments and capabilities M3 can provide, and contact us today to request a free quote!

1. Structure and principle of dimmable glass;

The scientific name of dimming glass is electro-optic liquid crystal atomized glass (English name: Switchable Transparent Glass, STG for short). Made between, the glass meets the national standards for laminated glass (GB15763.3-2009).

② appearance structure size;

Glass thickness + 0.38mmPVB (EVA) + 0.27mm liquid crystal film + 0.38mmPVB (EVA) + glass thickness. (Glass thickness; 3mm ～ 12mm is acceptable)

Note: glass can be selected; super white, ordinary white, fireproof, LOW-E, coated glass, etc.

2Principle:

Dimming film STF is the core technology of dimming glass, which is independently developed and produced by our company. The films used on the market today include Magic Glass, Switchable Light Control Glass, Smart Window, and smart dimmable glass. The dimming function of the dimming glass is realized by the dimming film. The schematic diagram is as follows.

⑴. STG atomization state

The dimming film is composed of a plastic-liquid crystal core layer sandwiched between two transparent conductive films. The plastic-liquid crystal core layer includes liquid crystal spheres and polymers. The director of the liquid crystal molecules is approximately parallel to the glass substrate. Drip around. The refractive index of the polymer is nP, which is similar to the refractive index of glass, about 1.5, and is an isotropic substance; the extraordinary refractive index and ordinary refractive index of the liquid crystal are not ne, no, respectively. When glass and transparent conductive film are incident on the interface between the liquid crystal sphere and the polymer, since ne is not equal to nP, scattering occurs, and the STG is in an atomized state.

⑵. STG transparent

When an external electric field is applied, an electric field is formed between the two transparent conductive films, the directors of the liquid crystal molecules are aligned in the direction of the electric field, and the vertically incident visible light passes through the glass and the transparent conductive film and enters the interface between the liquid crystal sphere and the polymer. It is perpendicular to the light propagation direction, and no is equal to nP, so it is transmitted. At this time, the dimming glass is transparent.

⑶. STG haze

The main indicator of the optical performance of dimmable glass is transparency. In fact, it is haze. The smaller the haze when the power is on, the better the haze when the power is off. When an external electric field is applied, the light is incident perpendicular to the direction of the transparent conductive film. At this time, although nLC is approximately equal to no, due to the difference between nP and no values, scattering still occurs at the interface between the liquid crystal droplets and the polymer, which is the main cause of haze.

⑷. Perspective

When the dimming film is energized, the angle between the incident light and the dimming film in the vertical direction (referred to as the angle of view α) is not zero, the propagation direction of the light in the STF is not parallel to the director of the liquid crystal molecules, as shown in the figure:

At the interface between the liquid crystal droplets and the polymer, the component of the light vibration in the ne direction is scattered. When a is larger, the scattering is more, so the haze increases with the increase of the viewing angle. This is a characteristic of the photoelectric effect of the liquid crystal.