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Coring Taiwan, ITRI Co-develop Roll-to-roll Processing for Ultra-slim Flexible Glass

2012/09/05 | By Renee Chen

Taipei, Sept 5, 2012 (CENS)--Corning Display Technologies Co. (Corning Taiwan), a Taiwanese subsidiary of the world's leading supplier of glass substrates, announced recently that it would co-develop roll-to-roll processing of ultra-slim flexible glass--representing the advent of the next-generation display industry—together with the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Corning Taiwan showed off its latest display-related products, such as large-sized Corning Willow Glass, Corning Gorilla Glass 2, Eagle XG Slim, and Corning Lotus Glass, at the 2012 Touch Taiwan Exhibition.

Corning Willow Glass was the most eye-catching of all the displays. This new 50-200 micrometer (μm) glass can, so far, be produced in a roll with a width of one meter and a length 300 meters. The thinness, strength, and flexibility of the glass make well-wrapped displays possible, and the glass can be processed at temperatures as high as 450° C—much too high for polymer films. This high-temperature processing capability is essential for high-end displays.

This new glass was developed with the requirements of continuous high-temperature roll-to-roll processing techniques for the printing industry in mind. It can be applied to such uses as solar devices, electronic paper (ePaper), color filters, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting, large-scale sensors, and display backplanes.

Y. R. Chan, chairman of ITRI's Electronics and Optoelectronics Technologies Laboratories, reports that ITRI has cooperated with Corning Taiwan in the joint development of this new glass from the very beginning, carrying out research related to the related equipment and the applications of roll-to-roll processing.