Hybrid Lighting Technology
ADLT is the world’s leading innovator and supplier of nano film coatings, critical to the performance of high efficiency halogen lamps, an energy efficient ‘Hybrid’ lamp derivative of the incandescent light bulb.  The Company owns the dominant share of hybrid lamp coatings and is actively supporting the world’s largest lamp manufacturers and their plans to market products utilizing this proprietary technology.  Over the past 18 years, ADLT coatings have contributed more to the energy efficiency advancement of incandescent lighting compared to all other improvements in the previous 111 years.

ADLT is aggressively building upon its world leader status related to nano film coatings.  Established ten years ago, ADLT’s low cost production platform is currently being increased from three to five ADLT owned and operated facilities to support a growing number of Materials Group products including a state of the art coating facility with new capacity available 2010.  Company programs have been initiated to dramatically lower production costs through significantly increasing the manufacturing rate of its coating processes as well as expanding upon the success of its low-cost production platform in India.

Supported by over 17 issued and pending patents as well as key trade secrets, ADLT leads the industry, accounting for an estimated 80% market share of all Hybrid coatings (~47% via coating services, and ~33% via MicroDyn equipment held externally).  ADLT is well positioned to respond to accelerated growth rates driven by the industry’s top lighting companies and their efforts to support the global demand for alternative, safe energy efficient lighting.

ADLT’s core area of expertise revolves around its coating technologies.  In addition, the Company produces advanced coated reflectors and is developing capabilities to produce Hybrid capsules, coated formed quartz bodies, turn-key manufacturing systems, and finished Hybrid lamps.

Nano Film Coatings
Hybrid lighting is a new general lighting technology that dramatically enhances the performance of the 100-year-old incandescent filament lamp through the addition of a high temperature nano film coating applied to a gas-filled capsule surrounding a filament.  This coating redirects wasted infrared radiation, or heat, back to the filament to generate more light output and allow for the reduction of energy by up to 60 percent. 

ADLT is one of the few companies in the world having the capability to produce Hybrid lighting capsules (filament surrounded by gas-filled, coated quartz chamber).  ADLT has developed or co-developed 100 percent of the nano film coating technologies in use today and provides lighting manufacturers coating services or coating equipment that produce a combined estimated 80 percent of the world’s Hybrid lamps. 

ADLT owns two unique coating platforms/processes, MicroDyn and PICVD, that produce Hybrid capsule coatings and advanced reflector coatings.  Both technologies are currently being used to support Hybrid initiatives by several of the industry’s leading companies. 

MicroDyn ®
MicroDyn is a reactive sputtering process delivered within turnkey coating equipment designed and manufactured by Advanced Lighting Materials Group.  Within these batch coating systems, various materials are sputtered from targets and combined with oxygen to create oxides which are deposited in optical multi-layers onto Hybrid capsules.  The performance and durability of coated products provided by MicroDyntechnology far exceeds those produced by industry standard evaporation techniques and related technologies, at manufacturing costs lower than those possible using evaporation techniques.  Coating capacity is being created through ADLT’s low cost production platform in Chennai, India.

PICVD
Plasma impulse chemical vapor deposition (PICVD) is a proprietary process owned by Advanced Lighting Materials whereby nano film coatings are applied to high efficiency halogen capsules through a chemical vapor and microwave driven plasma.  These hard coatings are ideal when working with internal curved substrates such as reflectors. 

ADLT continues to drive efficacy gains as well as cost reductions.  Significant improvements in cost and technology are generating strong interest from the industry.  The company believes that Hybrid lamps can exceed 45 lumens per watt, a 64 percent energy savings over current incandescent lamps, well in advance of pending 2020 federal legislation which requires this efficiency.

Coated Reflectors
ADLT manufactures high performance, coated reflectors including PAR and MR designs that are partnered with Hybrid lamps.  These enhanced reflectors improve the performance of the reflector by 12 to 14 percent through optimized coatings as well as physical design.  Glass processing (pressing of the reflector) is conducted in Bad Gandersheim, Germany.