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Touch Screen Integration

Optical Bonding

The best touch technology for your application

Selecting the appropriate touch technology for your application can be tricky unless you have first-hand experience with the various options and understand the trade-offs inherent with each. If you’re looking for an industrial display solution, any of our standard industrial monitor products can be customized with either a projected capacitive or resistive-touch screen.

IEE can incorporate any touch screen technology available today into your custom design. In our in-house clean room, we can add touch functionality to almost any LCD panel using either optical bonding (wet) or dry bonding techniques. We work closely with you to select the technology that provides the best features and performance at the highest optical and cost efficiency.

Touch Screen Selection Guide

Touch Feature and Performance Attribute
5 Wire Resistive
Projected Capacitive
Surface Capacitive
Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW)
Infrared (IR)
Touch Accuracy
High
Medium
Medium
Medium-High
Low
Gloved Finger Activation
Yes
Some
No
Yes
Yes
Pen/Stylus Activation
Yes
Some
Some
Some
Yes
Light Transmissivity
75 – 85%
90 - 95%
85 - 93%
90 - 95%
Up to 100%
Pen/Stylus Activation
Yes
Some
Some
Some
Yes
Ease of Integration
High
Low-Med
Medium
Meduim
Low-Med
Cost
Low-Med
High
Low-Med
Medium
High
Number of Touches
35+M
Unlimited
150+M
100M
Unlimited
Durability
Medium
High
Med-High
Med-High
High
Chemical Resistance
Low
High
Med-High
High
High
Surface Debris Resistance
Medium
High
Medium
Low
Low
Multi-touch
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes