Asahi Glass (AGC) said that it has developed a very thin glass (0.07mm) that is flexible enough to allow it to be used as a cover glass for flexible displays as it is said to be able to be bent to a radius as low as 2.5mm. The company will show the glass at the forthcoming SID Display Week and will explain that it is 80% stronger in impact resistance than glass that has been chemically strengthened (like AGC’s own Dragontail, Corning’s Gorilla Glass etc.).
Analyst Comment
AGC (as it will be known from July this year) will be speaking aobut ‘Glass-as-a-platform’ at the DSCC Automotive conference at SID. As we reported in MDM, the company already has a design win for curved cover glass in the Audi A8. (AGC Has Curved Cover Glass for Audi A8. We’ll be there of course. (BR)
AGC showed this automotive concept at last year’s SID. Image:Meko
