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Corning Iris™ Glass Named a Display Component of the Year by Society for Information Display

by Isaac Oburu

Corning Incorporated’s light-guide plate solution, Iris™ Glass, has received a 2016 Display Component of the Year award from the Society for Information Display (SID). The 2016 Display Industry Awards (DIAs) recognized innovative display products, …

Tags:Awards| Corning| Glass| SID Society

Corning Takes SID Award

by Tom Allen

Corning’s Iris Glass light guide plate has won a Display Component of the Year award, from the Society of Information Display.

LG Innotek Embeds Fingerprint Sensor in Front Glass

by Norbert Hildebrand

LG Innotek has announced the development of a fingerprint sensor for mobile devices. While fingerprint sensors are widely used already in higher end smartphones and other products, they all rely on a sensor that …

Tags:Fingerprint Recognition| Glass| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 17

Fraunhofer Shows Ultra-Thin Glass Results

by Tom Allen

Fraunhofer FEP will show off its newest developments in ultra-thin glass at SVC TechCon 2016, held from the 9th – 13th May in Indianapolis, USA. The organisation’s most recent focus is sheet-to-sheet coatings of …

Schott Glass Takes Innovation Award

by Tom Allen

Dr. Frank Heinricht, chairman of the board of Schott AG (right), with Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Laureate in Physics (middle) and Jan Hofer, German journalist (left)Schott’s ultra-thin glass has won the 2016 German Industry …

AGC to Expand its Supply System

by Isaac Oburu

Asahi Glass (AGC) has announced that it intends to strengthen its system to supply cover glass for car-mounted displays at its subsidiary AGC Display Glass Yonezawa Co., citing strong demand. This glass is a …

Glass Area Unaffected by Falling Unit Demand

by Tom Allen

Unit demand for large-area LCD glass – i.e., that used for TVs, desktop monitors and similar applications – will fall this year, says IHS. However, area demand will continue to rise, due to increasing …

Tags:Glass| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| large displays| Vol 23 - Issue 11

AGC Asahi Glass’s New Smartphone Cover Glass Enables Fingerprint Scans

by Isaac Oburu

AGC Asahi Glass, a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, announced today that it has launched a multi-thickness smartphone cover glass with a recession on its underside to accommodate a fingerprint sensor, …

Tags:Glass| Mobile Phones

Asahi Etches Glass for Fingerprints

by Tom Allen

Asahi Glass was showing a new cover glass product, on the CrucialTec stand, with a recess to house a fingerprint sensor. It is called ‘Glass on Top with Shine’. Today’s fingerprint sensors can read …

Hybrimer Will Protect Project Valley

by Tom Allen

Transistors formed on Hybrimer. Source: KAIST.KIPost, a Korean news source, says that Samsung will introduce a foldable smartphone at the end of this year. Samsung has apparently been working with Solip Technology, a spin-off …

Asahi Glass Result 05/02/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Asahi Glass reported full year 2015 net profit of 42.9 billion Yen ($375 million), up 105% YoY, from 15.9 Yen ($139 million). Turnover was reported at 1.32 trillion Yen ($10.7 billion), down slightly by …

MWC is Here!

by Tom Allen

Mobile World Congress takes place in Barcelona this week. Samsung and LG have already announced their plans to launch new flagship phones (LG and Samsung Prepare World for New Flagships), but there’s more news …