Dynamic Glass • Electro-Optics • Power
Smart Glass Labs builds switchable glass for windows, doors, and façades, along with the electro-optical test systems and power supplies that qualify any display or EO material from lab to city scale.
Testing & Power Solutions
From lab benches to production lines and field diagnostics, Smart Glass Labs delivers instrumentation, software, and power supplies that measure, stress, and qualify electro-optical materials for real-world deployment.
We provide methods, tools, and guidance. Our work underpins how partners design their own certifications. We do not act as an accredited certifying body.
MSTS • Material Status Test System
A compact handheld that scores the aging and health of liquid-crystal-based IGUs, supporting predictive maintenance, warranty decisions, and fleet-wide benchmarking.
Waveform & Drive Electronics
Software-driven waveform generation with up to four independent channels, to explore response, contrast, and lifetime behavior across PDLC, PNLC, electrochromic, and display stacks.
Portable EO Systems
Battery-powered systems that measure time and static response in real installations, bridging the gap between lab measurements and in-situ behavior on façades and vehicles.
EO-Soft
A Windows-based software layer that orchestrates instruments, captures waveforms, and exports structured data and reports for engineering, operations, and regulators.
Advanced Power Supplies
Precision power systems designed for polymer-stabilized textures, electrochromic, PDLC, PNLC, LCD, LED, and sensor loads. Not limited to any single material or OEM.
Cell Gap & Characterization
Measurement systems for cell gap, iso-contrast, and other structural parameters across smart glass, LCD, OLED, and ultrathin transparency displays.
Smart Glass Products
Smart Glass Labs supplies PDLC-based films, laminated smart glass, automotive films, LED glass, and 0.2 mm ultrathin transparency displays, engineered for buildings, vehicles, and immersive environments.
Smart Film
Electronically switchable films, self-adhesive or laminated, that go from opaque to clear with AC drive, enabling on-demand privacy and daylight control.
Smart Glass
Sandwich-structured glass with PDLC film embedded between lites, delivered as flat or curved, annealed or tempered units ready for façades and partitions.
Solar & Automotive
Grey smart film and automotive-grade films tuned for higher IR blocking and wide temperature ranges, with behavior suited to vehicles and sun-exposed glazing.
LED Glass
Laminated LED glass modules that turn façades and partitions into high-brightness media surfaces while preserving transparency and architectural intent.
0.2 mm UTD
A 0.2 mm film with nano-scale coatings for holographic-like projection, enabling transparent, large-format visuals that appear suspended in air.
Customization
Custom PDLC films with color, blind-like segmenting, and UV-printed patterning to blend privacy, storytelling, and wayfinding within the glass plane.
Smart City Glass Ecosystem
We help governments, developers, and integrators treat glass as part of the critical infrastructure stack, connected to sensors, BMS platforms, security systems, and energy programs.
Smart glass is most powerful when it is coordinated, not when individual panels are driven in isolation. We work with stakeholders to define how glass, power, sensing, and data fit into smart-city architectures.
Our role is to supply technology and methods. Authorities and partners own policy decisions, labels, and regulatory frameworks.
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Partnership & Technology Transfer
We act as a technical partner for organizations building their own dynamic glass products, labs, and regional ecosystems, from OEMs and research centers to smart-city programs.
Team
Smart Glass Labs exists to answer a question the switchable glass industry has never answered for itself: how do you tell, reliably and in the field, whether a piece of dynamic glazing is still doing its job?
Founder and Principal Inventor
Hari has spent more than twenty years taking electro-optical materials from laboratory coupons to production glass.
He holds a PhD in Physics and Chemical Physics from the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, the laboratory where polymer-stabilized cholesteric texture was invented. He is a named inventor on fifteen issued US patents and two pending applications across nine patent families, with counterparts in Europe, China, Japan, Korea, Canada, and Mexico.
From 2014 to 2022 he was Senior Engineering Manager at Cardinal Glass Industries, where he led the engineering program behind the switchable privacy glazing technology that Cardinal commercialized as CLiC and brought into high volume manufacturing in 2026. His patent families there cover film-to-glass glazing construction, high performance privacy glazing, ultralow-power drive electronics, leakage current detection, and energy recapture drivers.
Earlier he was Senior Optics Engineer at BEAM Co., working on defense and commercial optical and display systems, and Senior Engineering Manager at Gamma Dynamics, developing electrofluidic display technology.
He is a Life Member of SPIE and a 2019 SPIE Community Champion, and a Life Member of the Society for Information Display, where he has served as Marketing Vice Chair for more than ten years and as Vice Chair of the Upper Midwest Chapter since 2021. He is the author of Methods and Properties of Liquid Crystals and Related Devices and a contributing author to Active Plasmonic Nanomaterials.
He is also Founder and CEO of ZeGlass, Inc.
Chief Technology Officer
Vassili is a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at California State University, Sacramento, where he has taught and led research since 2002. He holds a PhD in Physics from the Institute of Physics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and his early liquid crystal research included work at Kent State University's liquid crystal community.
His research spans the physics of anisotropic fluids and ordered layers, surface-related phenomena, and the electro-optics of liquid crystals, the exact science that determines how switchable glazing ages and fails. At Sacramento State he built a fully operational research facility including a class-100 clean room and a dedicated liquid crystal laboratory.
He is an inventor on US Patent 8,654,281, covering photo-patterned pre-tilt liquid crystal cells and lenses.
At Smart Glass Labs he leads the measurement physics behind our instrumentation, including the electro-optical characterization that underpins MSTS. He also serves as Chief Technology Officer of ZeGlass, Inc.
Contact
Whether you are planning a façade, standing up a lab, or designing a regional smart-glass initiative, we can help you scope systems, risks, and opportunities.
We typically begin with a technical scoping call to align on materials, scale, and constraints before proposing systems or programs.
