 the SID display week here with Corning and who are you? Hi, I'm Brittany Salgado and I am manager of marketing and staff communications for Corning Glass Technologies. So, Corning is famous for being the Gorilla Glass. Yeah, that's one of the glasses that we produce. So, we're a 165 year old company with deep material science expertise and we're here today. 165 years old. Yeah, 165. Doing glass all the time? Yes, yes. Where does the glass go? Where does the glass go? Glass is found in a variety of applications. Today, we're here talking about a lot of consumer electronic applications and some cutting edge work that we're doing in the auto space. And so, I actually have a gentleman here named John McCleary who can talk to you about some of the work that we're doing to advance glass in autos. What can I tell you about Gorilla in the automotive space? This looks pretty awesome. It is. So, what's going on here? Is this the future of cards? We hope so. So, this is an example of what you can do with Gorilla Glass. It is the benefits are being able to shape glass into the automotive environment with minimal cost because you're finishing the glass in a flat space. This is a conformed angle? Yes. Best described like this. So, you start with a flat piece of glass and because of the strength of Gorilla, you're actually able to, what we say, cold form it. Cold form it? Yes. So, you're supporting it. You're putting it into shape without adding any heat. So, very inexpensive way to get desirable shapes and in addition, you can finish the glass in a flat form which is the most cost effective way to do it. Is this glass? That is glass. That is Gorilla Glass. That's the glass right here? Yes. Glass like, same kind of glass. It's used for glass like. This same kind of glass, a version of the glass that you fell in love with in this device. And is this also shaped everywhere? Yes. This is the concave and convex radii here and so you'll be able to put displays in flat glass and in shapes. This is a curved display from our friends at JDI who are right across the way here. Is it maybe an OLED or LCD? That's LCD. LCD? Yes. So, you work with anything? We do. Whatever the display manufacturers can work on, we will be able to build a solution for it with covered glass. Nice. Which feature is this? This is today. Today. This is today? And a better example of today is this. So that is logically a part that is more for demonstration purposes. This is more like what you might see in a auto-specification today. All right. That's great. Can you introduce a... Let's walk around the booth. Brittany, I need to hand it back to my friend. Hey, Stuart. I would love to. Let's check some of the other stuff that you have around here. Okay. Let's do it. So, I'm going to introduce you to Steve Hassel and he's going to talk about some of the work that we're doing in semi-conductor packaging towards microelectronics and other applications. Hello. So, who are you? I'm Steve Hassel. I'm the manager of New Business Development for Precision Glass Solutions Division. So, what are we looking at here? It says corning on a piece of glass. These wafers are for through glass vias. And what you're doing is you're metalizing the glass. And the holes are somewhere between 10 and 30 microns. And it allows you to do wafer-level interconnect packaging, so it reduces the size and the height, which is important. So, as you move to mobile devices... Right now, there's like a... Maybe over here, there's a PCB. Yes. And the PCB is like long like this. But you are suggesting that you could have maybe like a chip and connecting through a piece of glass right here. Correct. That's... So, it's interconnect technology. The glass can be as thin as 100 microns. So what you're doing... The thinness. The thinness. And you have a metallization layer, be it aluminum, or copper, or gold. And it allows you to have a real direct interconnect, which reduces the resistivity, which will extend the battery life on mobile devices. So this right here has a whole bunch of holes? Yes. Even though I can't really feel them, because it's so small. Yes. How small are the 10... As I said, they can go down to the smallest 10 microns. That's very small, right? So the strand of hair is 30 microns. So it's three times smaller than hair? Yes. You have holes that are reliably going to route through any connection in a PCB? What you have to do is you have to metalize this. You fill those holes with a metal. And then you bond it to the wafer. And you're able to then connect electrically through that via, through that metallization to the PCB. Because the glass is 100% reliably not going to conduct the power, right? Correct. That's correct. 100%. Yes. And so you can have... Glass is a great insulator. Yeah. And so you can have maybe a chip, an arm processor, that has a whole bunch of connectors in the back that go directly on your glass. Yes. And each of them with routes to the PCB, and the PCB design will change forever if this happens. Right. How far are you with this? It still is at very, very early stages. But I think with the motivation for Corning to create precision glass solutions was the consumer electronics and the internet of things. You know, as we look at what's happening, more and more mobile devices and more and more MEMS type switches will be incorporated throughout. So one way to do the future of the consumer electronics of everything through glass? Yes. For the display and touch and stuff? Correct. But inside? Yes. You won't know this glass inside to make it better? That's absolutely correct. And you can make a huge one like this, what would be the application to have a big one like that? So as the technology matures, right now this form factor is because this is how devices are made. Wafers are round, because silicon is grown in ingots and they're round. As you start looking forward to broadness, we can do panel level application. This is easy right now for manufacturers to use. This is probably the future. The future? Because panel? For panels. Because... There would be electronics all over the panel. So if you look at the PCB in here, if you start to do... Usually for a TV it's just one PCB is somewhere connected to a panel that just has one function. But you can create thousands of PCBs on this piece of glass. And that means there would be local electronics all over the... Correct. What's the advantage of that? Then you cut it. But it reduces the manufacturing costs. So this is called precision glass? Solutions. And your solution just has this working. Is it expensive or not to make these holes and put them where you want and you have to have mass production for this to be affordable? It really relates to the volume. So as it grows in volume, the pricing will become much more aggressive. When did you start showing this technology? It's been within the last six to nine months. So it's very new? Yes. It's not out there yet in the market? It is also out in the market. It is already in the market? Yes. So there might be some very small devices out there that are enabled because of you? Yes. Alright, so we're looking forward to what's going to happen in the future. That's cool. Thank you. Cool, thanks. Okay, I'm going to check out some mother. Oh, thanks a lot. So now I'm going to introduce you to Clarifon. You can talk about our Iris glass product for Edgela LCD, very thin TVs. So this is for the TV business. So you're not only in a smartphone, you're not only inside the smartphone in the future and the car. You're on the TV. Is it already a big deal? It's a big deal. You're shipping already? Hello. Hi, how are you? So we also, not only TV, we also have the monitor on the side. So these are shipping? Yes, this is all commercial available right now. So here I'm looking at a 55-inch 4K and what is it enabled? Small bezel? Yes, because of the glass being able to... So this glass itself has a very low... Yeah. Have a low... Okay. Have a very low... It won't be impacted by the heat and also it doesn't absorb moisture. That's the reason why you can have a very thin design and also because the rigidity of the glass can have a very good structural design for your TV. So it's not going to break? It keeps it strong even if you have a tiny bezel? Yes, and also you won't expand because of the humidity or moisture. So you can see that you can have a very thin design. The bezel-less design still can have... And you call this advanced light guide. So what does it do to the light? You are guiding the light? Yes, and we have a very minimal color shift and also very outstanding transmission to the light so you can have a very bright TV and also have an accurate color. All right. So has it been shipping in 4K TVs for a long time? We just have some product launched last year. It's new. Yes, also some more product will be launched this year as well. And also we will have a monitor available in the market but it will end up this year. Cool. So there's lots of new markets happening this morning, right? Yeah, sure. Lots of new areas? Yeah, absolutely. So I can actually introduce you next to Dr. Brad Bowden. And Brad can talk to you a little bit about our Lotus NXT product which is optimized for high-resolution displays. So high-resolution smartphone kind of displays? Exactly. So Brad's the expert in this area and you can talk to you about that. Yeah, so Lotus NXT is a high-performance display glass substrate. So first I'll just tell you what we mean by high-performance displays. Those are displays that employ unique TFT backplane technology like Oxide TFT or LTPS. Those backplane technologies require high-temperature processes so you need a glass that's very dimensionally stable under high temperatures. Does that help for the curved ones? Yeah, exactly. So Lotus NXT actually just announced that it is used on the Galaxy S8 which uses a polyimid flexible OLED display. And Lotus NXT is used as a carrier glass. So the polyimid itself can't support the thermal load or the stresses of the film so we use NXT as a carrier glass. And that imparts this dimensional stability to the polyimid as it's being processed. So this is how Samsung is able to do those edge devices is because it's glass. It's still flexible under but it's conformed to the glass. Exactly. So you want to have the flexibility of the polyimid when you put it into the display but when you're actually mass producing the display itself that flexibility can be a disadvantage. So we use a rigid dimensionally stable carrier glass to support the polyimid during the display manufacturing process. So right here, this is the S8. Yep, so that's the S8. And you make it possible. Thanks to Corny. Exactly, yep. That has a flexible polyimid display in it and it is processed on a Lotus NXT carrier. All right, so very strong. It doesn't scratch. A device like this is not going to scratch. Well, so the surface of this has Gorilla Glass 5 and that's designed to be very resistant to scratches and then also primarily designed to enable better drop performance relative to previous versions of Gorilla Glass. Is it going to be possible that Corny is going to be unbreakable at some point? Well, you know, I mean, that's one of the fundamental challenges of glass. So we're always doing research and always developing new technology and that's, you know, one of the ultimate goals of course. How do you do this stuff? How does it work? How can you make glass stronger? That's the core of your business, right? Yeah, so I mean, that's definitely one of Corny's core capabilities and, you know, we design the chemistry and process associated with glass to make it, you know, ever tougher and stronger. This generations and gets better and better. That's right. And it still needs to be very beautiful to look at, right? Yeah, of course. You can't just have a big piece of glass. Well, and that's one of the advantages of our fusion process that we use to make the glass. Because the glass overflows a trough and reconnects at the bottom, that allows us to make glass with a pristine surface. And then that, you know, that surface has a very, you know, good surface finish right out of our, directly out of our manufacturing process. Cool, that looks awesome. All right, thanks a lot. Yep, thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. And you also have stuff with- Okay, one more place. Yeah, you have the- So now I'm going to take you over to the Gorilla Glass for Consumer Electronics Area and they can talk about why Gorilla has been featured on more than five billion devices worldwide. And it's tough, yeah. Five billion. Yes, every five billion devices. How are we going? So who are you? So my name is Steve Robinson. I'm a product manager for Corning Gorilla Glass. Do you have a specific question? Yeah, so five billion devices shipped? Yeah, over the life of Gorilla Glass. That's been a few years, right? It has been. A decade or? We launched Gorilla Glass ten years ago. And so what we're showcasing today just kind of as an overview, we have Corning Gorilla Glass 5, which is our latest generation of Gorilla Glass, primarily designed and optimized around drop performance. Typical testing is we drop from 1.6 meters with up to 80% survivability there. Is it easy to replace a Corning- When people drop it and they want to get it replaced in a cheap store, you know that? In a cheap store? Do they get to replace with your glass again or you don't ship it like empty? Yeah, so typically what we do is we supply the glass to, we supply the glass to the foam manufacturers and it's up to them to decide how they're going to use that, you know, through their supply chains and then lifecycle. And what are you showing here? Plastic, soda line, what's going on here? Yeah, so this video is, we actually have quite a few of these videos up on our website. This is basically going through some of the value props for Gorilla Glass, some of the testing that we do. Some of the big things just from a high level drop performance. It was a video on drop performance, face drop on the concrete, rough surfaces. The next thing is scratch performance. It's actually what's happening here. And then... So how do you optimize for scratch? So it's all around the characteristics of the glass. You know, there's some information again on our website, around the characters, characterization, but a process standpoint. We use our FusionDraw technology to create a glass, a pristine glass surface and then we do a chemical strengthening through an ion exchange process. And there's generations because it's just a lot of work to get it better every time you get it... Well, you know, frankly we're constantly learning and Corning is constantly innovating. You know, we're wanting to put the best glass out there that we can. And we're learning more and more about the industry. We're learning more about, you know, changing trends in handheld phone devices and then IT devices as well. So you are in lots of laptops? We are in several laptops. To be in big, just like this. The two-in-ones, they need this kind of stuff. Exactly. So this is an example of a Acer Spin 7. It actually uses a Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on their touchscreen. What do you show it like this? Yeah, so this is the second product line that we have. It's a vibrant Corning Gorilla Glass. And the idea here is really photorealistic images with a proprietary Corning inkjet technology with the durability and the protection of Gorilla Glass on the front. So it's just pictures? It is. It's pictures. And this is an example here. This is the Acer Chromebook 14. The idea is you can use that inkjet technology to come up with, like I said, photorealistic images and then manufacturers can customize how they want. And these are examples of... This is the back of the device. Exactly. So you could imagine some time in the future being able to customize with your own images on your own devices. Laptops, tablets, even the back of your phone. So it looks kind of like a screen. It does. It looks a little bit like it. That's the example that we have here. So you're the leader in this business, right? Am I the leader? I'm a product manager, yes. Yeah, but the Corning is the leader in this business. Sometimes you can ask for devices, five billion shift, nobody's near, right? And the competitors, they just can't get to your quality? Well, so I can't necessarily speak about competitors and what they're doing. What I can tell you, though, is we're striving to provide the best quality and toughest glass in the industry, especially from a covered glass standpoint.