Through the Gorilla Glass: Inside Corning's research facility (photos)
by ZDNet Author | February 1, 2012 4:00pm PST | Image 1 of 14
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The Samsung Galaxy Note has it, the Motorola Droid Razr has it, and the Nokia Lumia 900 has it, too. But what does it mean exactly when a phone comes with a Corning Gorilla Glass screen? And more importantly, what makes it so special? Join us as we go behind the screen, literally, and tour a Corning research facility.
Although Corning was established in 1851, their Palo Alto research facility has been around for only three years. Here, research and development is conducted for the company's five divisions: telecommunications, life science, environmental technologies, display technologies, and specialty materials.
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A comparison to ordinary window glass is of no value.... How does it compare to glass already in wide use in phones, laptops and tablets?
@RadioHist It IS a glass that's already in wide use for phones (and probably some laptops and tablets).
There were 3 types of glass tested.
Isnt all glass, glass? its made from the same base elements.
You can add stuff to metal, and althouth the composition may vary.....Isnt it still just metal?
Oh and I think RadioHist missed the point.
Buy a phone that has Gorrila glass 2.0!
Isnt all glass, glass? its made from the same base elements.
You can add stuff to metal, and althouth the composition may vary.....Isnt it still just metal?
Oh and I think RadioHist missed the point.
Buy a phone that has Gorrila glass 2.0!
@kevin.carrell@...
From Wikipedia:
"In science, however, the term glass is usually defined in a much wider sense, including every solid that possesses a non-crystalline (i.e., amorphous) structure and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state. In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers. For many applications (bottles, eyewear) polymer glasses (acrylic glass, polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate) are a lighter alternative to traditional silica glasses."
From Wikipedia:
"In science, however, the term glass is usually defined in a much wider sense, including every solid that possesses a non-crystalline (i.e., amorphous) structure and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state. In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers. For many applications (bottles, eyewear) polymer glasses (acrylic glass, polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate) are a lighter alternative to traditional silica glasses."
There are many here that would say that was a waste of R&D money.
"Our own Jessica Dolcourt holds a piece of Corning's flexible glass, which measures 100 um, or micrometers, thick. Although there are no current applications for this type of glass"
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but say I dropped my phone - wouldn't it be far better for the glass to bend during impact and absorb most of the energy bending rather than doing something like, oh, shattering?
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but say I dropped my phone - wouldn't it be far better for the glass to bend during impact and absorb most of the energy bending rather than doing something like, oh, shattering?
@CobraA1 Yeah, I can think of several uses for it also. I am sure someone out there will read this and say, "hey just what I was looking for" and the next article will be, flexible glass now used in...
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