Use a 70 percent isopropyl alcohol and water solution and a clean microfiber cloth to wipe down the surface of a device with Gorilla Glass. Never submerge your device, don't use bleach, and avoid getting moisture into any openings. There are a few proven methods for removing scratches from a phone.
You can fill in the scratches with a tiny amount of epoxy, Gorilla, or super glue. Another method is to use polish to smooth out and minimize scratches on the screen. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads.
Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Brad Stephenson. Freelance Contributor. He writes about Windows 10, Xbox One, and cryptocurrency. They want devices that are thinner, lighter and aesthetically pleasing — but also more durable to better resist the abuses that come with mobility.
And they want scratch resistance and advanced touch capability that keeps the world at their fingertips. Corning Gorilla Glass has been a key player in the smartphone world from the very beginning. The cover glass that helps protect your phone from damage and enables that incredible touch experience began in a laboratory in upstate New York. Corning's top scientists have performed thousands of hours of tests to understand how and why glass breaks when dropped.
And they continue to innovate by finding new ways to strengthen glass to deliver dramatically improved performance against drops on rough surfaces. He'll gush about its inherent touchability and authenticity, only to segue into a lecture about radio-frequency transparency. What you'd really want is for this to come alive. That'd be a perfect product. Weeks and Jobs shared an appreciation for design.
Both men obsessed over details. And both gravitated toward big challenges and ideas. But while Jobs was dictatorial in his management style, Weeks like many of his predecessors at Corning tends to encourage a degree of insubordination.
One of the first conversations between Weeks and Jobs actually had nothing to do with glass. Corning scientists were toying around with microprojection technologies—specifically, better ways of using synthetic green lasers. The thought was that people wouldn't want to stare at tiny cell phone screens to watch movies and TV shows, and projection seemed like a natural solution.
But when Weeks spoke to Jobs about it, Apple's chief called the idea dumb. He did mention he was working on something better, though—a device whose entire surface was a display. It was called the iPhone. Jobs may have dismissed green lasers, but they represented the kind of innovation for innovation's sake that defines Corning. And that's in good times and in bad. Still, even when Corning succeeds at both, it can often take the manufacturer decades to find a suitable—and profitable enough—market for its innovations.
As Henderson notes, innovation at Corning is largely about being willing and able to take failed ideas and apply them elsewhere. The idea to dust off the Chemcor samples actually cropped up in , before Apple had even entered the picture. Motorola had recently released the Razr V3, a flip phone that featured a glass screen in lieu of the typical high-impact plastic.
Corning formed a small group to examine whether an like glass could be revived and applied to devices like cell phones and watches. The old Chemcor samples were as thick as 4 millimeters. But maybe they could be made thinner. After some market research, executives believed the company could even earn a little money off this specialty product. The project was codenamed Gorilla Glass. By the time the call from Jobs came in February , these initial forays hadn't gotten very far.
Apple was suddenly demanding massive amounts of a 1. Could Chemcor, which had never been mass-produced, be married to a process that would yield such scale? Could a glass tailored for applications like car windshields be made ultrathin and still retain its strength? Would the chemical strengthening process even work effectively on such a glass? No one knew. So Weeks did what any CEO with a penchant for risk-taking would do. He said yes. For a material that's so familiar as to be practically invisible, modern industrial glass is formidably complex.
Standard soda-lime glass works fine for bottles and lightbulbs but is terrible for other applications, because it can shatter into sharp pieces.
Borosilicate glass like Pyrex may be great at resisting thermal shock, but it takes a lot of energy to melt it. At the same time, there are really only two ways to produce flat glass on a large scale, something called fusion draw and the float glass process, in which molten glass is poured onto a bed of molten tin. One challenge a glass company faces is matching a composition, with all its desired traits, to the manufacturing process.
It's one thing to devise a formula. It's another to manufacture a product out of it. Regardless of composition, the main ingredient in almost all glass is silicon dioxide aka sand. Because it has such a high melting point 1, degrees C , other chemicals, like sodium oxide, are used to lower the melting temperature of the mixture, making it easier to work with and cheaper to produce. Many of these chemicals also happen to imbue glass with specific properties, such as resistance to x-rays, tolerance for high temperatures, or the ability to refract light and disperse colors.
Not content to be a leader in devices glass, Corning set out to improve on their original design with Gorilla Glass 2. A thinner glass separating the device from your touch could result in better haptic feedback and enhanced response time. The glass magicians at Corning are also working hard to make glass that is not only strong, but also flexible.
The goal is to create paper-thin and flexible sheets of glass, that can be manufactured on roll-to-roll processes, thus greatly reducing the cost of the end product. As you might expected, Gorilla Glass 3 is significantly stronger than previous iterations of the product. Corning is one step ahead of us. In a scientist at Corning placed a piece of photosensitive glass in a furnace for testing.
Features By Nate Swanner. History Gorilla Glass probably has a more interesting path than any other piece of hardware on or in your device. Unbeknownst to him, scientist Don Stookey had just created a glass-ceramic hybrid.
Gorilla Glass is specially designed to maximize this behavior. Smaller sodium ions leave the glass, and larger potassium ions from the salt bath replace them. These larger ions take up more room and are pressed together when the glass cools, producing a layer of compressive stress on the surface of the glass. This layer of compression creates a surface that is more resistant to damage from everyday use. Corning Corning ultra-thin specialty glass. Why mobile devices? Making Gorilla Glass Glass is made up of sand, plain and simple.
The testing process So after the compound is mixed, melted, pulled and undergoes ion exchange, the real fun begins. Beyond Gorilla Glass Not content to be a leader in devices glass, Corning set out to improve on their original design with Gorilla Glass 2. Features News. Apple emerging tech Motorola Motorola Razr.
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