Corning has spotted a trend, which others have first too, by announcing the launch of Willow Glass, an ultra thin and bendable method of glass, how the company hopes will revolutionize the sort of next-generation gadgets. The thinness and adaptableness of Corning Willow Glass signifies that displays may well be “wrapped” in the areas around your phone, tablet, and other devices.
“Displays be pervasive everyday and manufacturers strive to make both portable devices and bigger displays thinner. Corning Willow Glass gives the substrate performance to preserve device quality inside a thin and light form factor,” said Dr. Dipak Chowdhury, division vice president and Willow Glass program director. The firm aims for Willow Glass to eventually be produced in a roll-to-roll processing, as a substitute for the present sheet-to-sheet process, which would ensure it is clone of how newspapers is produced. This may drastically bring down prices, as the roll-to-roll process is more efficient and economical.
Although the Willow Glass has just been launched, Corning already has big plans for its bendable glass. Corning likes to make use of the Willow Glass in light and malleable solar cells later on. That’s fine and all, but we’re more interested to check out which phone manufacturer will snap up the display substrate and emerge on track of a breakthrough product.
Corning isn’t the sole company wanting to score points within the bendable display area. Kicking off having its own flexible displays is Samsung, in the Youm displays, which use a plastic substrate other than glass. The Korean’s flexible OLED panels will reportedly maintain production recently, with over 960,000 glass sheets already ordered.
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