News Future of phone displays: non-reflective, antimicrobial, made with Corning's Gorilla Glass

[tom_mai78101]

We've heard that Corning, the maker of Gorilla Glass that protects your smartphone or tablet display, is cooking up something in terms of anti-reflection and anti-microbial abilities, and for the first time the firm gave it some pep talk in public at the MIT Mobile Technology Summit.

Dr. Jeffrey Evenson, senior vice president and operations chief of staff for Corning took the stage and gave the usual demos we've seen before like a four-pound steel ball dropping on a 1mm sheet of Gorilla Glass with the proverbial trampoline effect.

Corning reiterated some of the main advantages of its glass technology in the bullet points below:

• Glass can withstand an astonishing amount of pressure. Imagine, for example, a scale that measures the pressure under an elephant’s foot. Glass can theoretically tolerate the pressure of 10,000 elephants stacked on top of that scale – a strength of 10 gigapascals.​
• A sheet of glass is so stable that it would take 20 trillion times the age of the earth to create a visible sag in the thickness of a glass window. This dimensional stability is critical to manufacturers of high-performance devices.​
• You want to talk transparency? The glass used for optical fiber – which forms the backbone of the Internet – is 30 times more transparent than the purest water, and only about 1 percent less transmissive of light than air on a clear day.​
• As for being impermeable – consider the difference between plastic and glass covers on electronics. A molecule of oxygen could pass through a piece of 1-millimeter-thick plastic in about two weeks. That same trip would take 30 billion years through the same thickness of glass. That makes glass “an ideal enclosure for advanced display technologies such as OLEDs, which decay rapidly if exposed to oxygen or water,” said Mr Evenson​

Future of phone displays: non-reflective, antimicrobial, made with Corning

We've heard that Corning, the maker of Gorilla Glass that protects your smartphone or tablet display, is cooking up something in terms of anti-reflection and germaphobic abilities, and now the firm gave it some pep talk at the MIT Mobile Technology Summit...

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[FireCat]

Non-reflective that's cool. But also"kills bacteria and viruses?" Hmm

 

[Hatebreeder]

So these Glasses will be even greater hazard to the environment than Plastics?

 

[Accname]

I dont know. If we dont kill the bacteria on these glasses we might get stronger immune systems. Because we come into contact with bacteria much more often.
If we make it too clean we will die very fast when an epidemic breaks out.

 

[camelCase]

• Glass can withstand an astonishing amount of pressure. Imagine, for example, a scale that measures the pressure under an elephant’s foot. Glass can theoretically tolerate the pressure of 10,000 elephants stacked on top of that scale – a strength of 10 gigapascals.
• A sheet of glass is so stable that it would take 20 trillion times the age of the earth to create a visible sag in the thickness of a glass window. This dimensional stability is critical to manufacturers of high-performance devices.

Why do people care about the first two points for a.. Mobile phone?

 

[tom_mai78101]

Why do people care about the first two points for a.. Mobile phone?

In short, scratch free Gorilla Glass. *scratches key across the glass*

 

[camelCase]

Yeah, because you need to withstand 10,000 elephants and out-live most of the universe to handle a key. You're not explaining anything.

 

[tom_mai78101]

Yeah, because you need to withstand 10,000 elephants and out-live most of the universe to handle a key. You're not explaining anything.

Short story rephrased:

You don't even have to worry about breaking your phone screen when you accidentally sit on it.

Sitting -> Pressure and Force.

 

[KaerfNomekop]

You don't even have to worry about breaking your phone screen when you accidentally sit on it.

That can happen?

 

[tom_mai78101]

That can happen?

Oh? You must be new here.
And here.
And here.
Unrelated, but yes. The world is young, my friend.

 

[camelCase]

How heavy must one's mom be before their kids out-weigh 10,000 elephants and cause a sag that even the end of the Universe can't?

There's an upper-limit to how much toughness the regular consumer requires. Beyond that and it's just a marketing scheme. "Oh, look at us! We can outlive the Universe! What did you ask, sir? Does it really matter? Oh, come over around the back and we'll explain it all!" *Fires a pistol at consumer's head* "Never ask a question that makes others think."

People change phones once every few years. You don't need to outlive the Universe.

 

[FireCat]

Well, some phones/glass does break easily! And the "cell phone companies get a big smile"

 

[The Helper]

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