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Mobile phone screen next change: sapphire glass panel?
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Apple Corp recently by his decision proved once more that the company is a every hour and moment in innovative technology giants. So far, Apple has created a new trend of more mobile field, and also let many consumers therefore income. This includes not only the iPhone and iPad hardware product release, also includes changes in many manufacturing processes and standards, and finally directly into the industry trend, cause other firms to follow suit, scramble for. For example, an integral aluminum alloy was a very expensive manufacturing process, but under the influence of apple, now adopt an integral aluminum material devices have appeared in the intelligent mobile phone of different brands and different platform body, become It is quite common for a situation.
Similarly, for the use of sapphire glass material, apple first began to be used in their latest iPhone 5S lens and Touch ID fingerprint sensor, the future is likely to once again lead the industry trend.
The benefits of sapphire glass
Sapphire glass itself does not contain the glass, but in the ordinary stones is purified, through high temperature sapphire crystal structure remodeling and presents the purification of aluminum oxide. According to foreign media reports, the Apple Corp decided in the future on the whole screen iPhone the use of sapphire glass material panel, mainly sapphire can offer many benefits. First of all, its hardness second only to diamond, higher than ordinary glass level two. That is to say, if be used as mobile phone screen, sapphire scratch and fragmentation degree is much higher than the traditional chemical strengthened glass. In addition, compared with glass, sapphire wetting angle of 85 degrees, which means it is more not easy to contaminate the fingerprint, occurrence of misjudging situations arise rarely.
But since there are advantages, disadvantages also exist then the corresponding. First of all, the cost of sapphire glass is very expensive, about 10 times of the Corelle company is currently the mainstream gorilla toughened glass cost about. In addition, the sapphire per cubic cm, weight of 3.98 grams, now than the mobile phone using Corelle gorilla glass 2.54 grams of many, also refracted light is also a little more. This also means that, in the same light environment, sapphire screen will look darker.
While the current Apple Corp has also and GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) signed a cooperation agreement, and the company will also specifically for themselves to producing sapphire glass screen. At this point, Apple has and GTAT and upstream suppliers have already developed a good strategy to ensure that enough material supply. According to reports, Apple has been ready for the second half of 2014, up more than 10000000 pieces of sapphire screen material to meet the needs of the market.
Samsung, LG also hope that the use of sapphire
Not only is the apple and many other manufacturers have also begun to find out the trend, to make better use of sapphire glass panel features. Like Samsung and LG and other international electronics giant, is also thought to be the application of sapphire material components in future devices. According to South Korean media reports, the two companies are seeking sapphire products manufacturers, and used in their mobile phone.
In fact, this is not the Samsung and LG first consider the use of sapphire material. In 2013, the media have reported that the two companies have sought to sample cooperation, the biggest problem but still faces a cost. And while Apple in their future flagship on the use of sapphire temporary or case, a wide range of application but it enough to push the sapphire material in the field of smart phones, which leads to further reduce the price to maintain cost supplier. It is reported that Samsung and LG once found a gorilla panel and cost of sapphire technology, it will immediately in the application of this new material products.
In addition, as the most affected Corelle, seemed very calm. Before Corelle senior vice president James Steiner said, sapphire glass the special material of large area application to intelligent mobile phone touch screen is still unrealistic. "The strength test of our internal, sapphire glass and gorilla glass obtained experimental results are very close, but it takes the production costs and higher energy can easily obtain, and this will directly lead to the rise of production cost." Steiner said. At the same time, he also believes that the impact of production sapphire glass on the environment is also very great.
Apple Corp on the production and supply of link strict control to ensure that you have sufficient strength and technology applied to the products, like Samsung and LG giants join will be on the development of the whole industry to play a promoting role. Therefore, we can say that the sapphire material panel will be the next "big event the entire smartphone screen technology in the field of". And what will be suitable for expanded from iPhone to other Android phones, also need time to verify.
- article source: OFweek display network
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