It is indispensable to keep watching rapid developments of the high-tech industry worldwide.
Friday, December 13, 2013
No. 817: Successful development of the world’s thinnest glass (December 12, 2013)
Technology:
Nippon Electric Glass developed the world’s thinnest glass for large-scale glass to be
incorporated in an organic EL display and solar cell. The thickness is 35
micrometers that is smaller than the diameter of a hair that is 60-90
micrometers. A glass sheet available from other manufacturers is usually 50
micrometers. The new glass is named “G-Leaf.”
Presentation of Nippon Electric Glass at CEATEC 2013
The
company built the new glass by shaping thinly the glass material founded in the
furnace about several tens of meters high using gravity force. It can be shaped
to a glass sheet 100 m long and 0.5 m wide. It can be rolled on a cylinder with
radium 26 mm. It is suitable for bendable liquid crystal display and touch
panel. It can also be used as the substrate glass in the ink-jet type continuous
production process of organic EL panel and solar cell. Nippon Electric Glass
has already shipped samples of the super thin glass to more than 500 electronic
parts manufacturers and manufacturing equipment makers both at home and abroad.
Finished products that incorporate the super thin glass will be put on the market
in 2015.
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