LIGHTS

THE WORLD'S SMALLEST SELF-POWERED LIGHT SOURCES.

trigalight is a hermetically sealed glass capillary, coated on the inside with luminescent powder and filled with tritium gas. The result: a light source that glows continuously for over a decade without any external energy source, battery or switch. It requires no electronics, no maintenance and no intervention of any kind.

Our glass light sources are available in a remarkable range of sizes — from a 0.30 mm hairlight, finer than five human hairs, to larger custom formats — and in a wide spectrum of colours, shapes and geometries. We produce standard formats in volume and develop fully custom solutions for applications where off-the-shelf does not exist.

Whether you need a single-colour rod for a watch hand, a curved form for an instrument bezel, a block for a tactical insert or a UV-reactive element for jewellery, trigalight has the format. If your application is not covered below, we will develop it with you from scratch.

The products on this page are not sold retail. Every trigalight® light source we manufacture is produced to order for a specific B2B partner and a specific product application. Standard formats are available for established applications; custom dimensions, geometries and coatings are developed for partners whose requirements fall outside the standard range.

If you are a product manufacturer or procurement team evaluating tritium GTLS for integration, we supply in any quantity from sample sets for engineering evaluation through to full series production volumes. We can advise on the optimal format for your application, support the regulatory approval process in your target market and provide full traceability documentation for every batch supplied. Our standard formats are a starting point — the final product is always tailored to you.

Contact our sales team to request samples or discuss your GTLS requirements.

THE PROVEN FOUNDATION — LUMINESCENT FOR DECADES.

The standard trigalight GTLS (Gaseous Tritium Light Source) is the product on which everything else is built. A glass capillary, coated with zinc sulphide luminescent powder and filled with tritium gas, hermetically sealed by laser at both ends. It glows continuously from day one, in complete darkness, without any activation, power source or maintenance.

Standard GTLS are the workhorse of the trigalight range — used in millions of applications across watches, tactical equipment, safety products and instrumentation worldwide. They are available in 9 standard colours, a broad range of diameters and lengths, and in cylindrical, block and curved geometries. Customer-specific formats are produced to order.

UP TO 80% BRIGHTER — WITH THE SAME ACTIVITY.

The Super Powered trigalight (SP-GTLS) is the latest generation of self-luminous tritium light source. An ultra-thin aluminium layer — just a few nanometres thick — is applied to the outer glass surface using a PVD (Physical Vapour Deposition) process. This creates a precision mirror that redirects light generated in the core to the desired emission point, increasing luminous intensity by up to 80% without increasing tritium activity.

For manufacturers working under regulatory activity limits — such as watch producers constrained by per-product GBq caps — the Super Powered trigalight delivers a new design freedom: same brightness with lower activity, or significantly higher brightness within the same regulatory envelope. It integrates directly into existing components with no dimensional changes required.

VIVID BY DAY. LUMINOUS BY NIGHT.

spectralight is the next generation of trigalight self-powered illumination technology. Where the classic trigalight uses transparent glass — outstanding in darkness, neutral in daylight — spectralight uses specially developed coloured glass capillaries with precisely tuned internal phosphor coatings. The result: vivid, clearly recognisable colour in bright conditions, with the same proven self-powered glow in darkness that trigalight has delivered for decades.

For manufacturers who need their product to be identifiable in both full daylight and complete darkness — watchmakers designing 24-hour legible dials, tactical equipment producers requiring day/night sight visibility, safety product manufacturers needing colour-coded equipment — spectralight provides a solution that no other technology can match.

THE SPECIAL EFFECTS UNDER BLUE LIGHT.

UVlight is a tritium-free product from mb-microtec — the creators of trigalight — designed for applications where UV-reactive luminescence is more appropriate than tritium-based self-powered glow. UVlight uses coated glass elements that react to UV light sources, producing vivid, eye-catching colour that transforms ordinary objects into visually striking pieces.

The primary application is jewellery design, where UVlight elements can be integrated into pendants, earrings, bracelets and other pieces to create dramatic colour effects under UV illumination. The product uses the same precision glass manufacturing infrastructure as trigalight, with ultra-thin elements starting at 0.3 mm outer diameter.