With sapphire material gradually lower production costs, more and more used in product design began to consider sapphire, especially used in consumer electronics products concern, GT Advanced Technologies at 2013 Mobile Asia Expo show sapphire cover phone screen.
Now that cell phone screen material is glass, causing even the best high-end mobile phone, the screen will still crack, will be scratched. The application lets sapphire glass face this embarrassing situation is expected to be resolved broken screen. Sapphire Mohs hardness up to 9, after Mohs hardness of 10 diamonds; addition, sapphire glass is three times higher than the material strength can reduce accidental fall and cause the screen to break to occur. Some high-end phones such as the use of anti-scratch VERTU it demands a sapphire glass as the phone screen. Apple iPhone 5 is equipped with a camera lens protective glass, also used a sapphire material.
Because the production cost is higher, sapphire has been regarded as only suitable for use in very high-end products, but with the sapphire material gradually lower production costs, and gradually expand the application side, sapphire applications are currently out from the LED industry. In Apple's case, iPhone 5 equipped with the camera lens protective glass, the new generation of killer product iWatch OGS touch cover will use sapphire material.Sapphire substrates used in non-sapphire $ 1 billion industry currently accounts for 25%, but the sapphire in the phone display screen applications may make the market size in 2018 more than 3 billion U.S. dollars.
GT Advanced Technologies Market Communications Director Jeff Nestel-Patt said that with the sapphire material prices gradually lower, sapphire material application has opened the door to the price of LED sapphire substrate as a reference, three years ago, two inches cylindrical crystal materials between the market price per CM 22-25 dollars, a few days ago had fallen to the lowest per CM 3 dollars. In the foreseeable future, there will be more products to use sapphire material. Motorola latest MP6000 multi-plane scanner uses dual sapphire window screen is a perfect example.
GT Advanced Technologies, a subsidiary GT Crystal System and Motorola Solutions has reached an agreement to become the latest Motorola MP6000 multi-plane sapphire double window of the scanner screen exclusive supplier.
GT Crystal Systems will be the city of Salem, Massachusetts manufacturing facility above 24 square inches of sapphire accessories. "This is one of our significant progress, it will allow us to expand the application of sapphire material to a whole new market segment," GT President and CEO Tom Gutierrez expressed.
"GT's ASF sapphire scratch almost never enough to withstand the scanning system in the course of any of the collision is more suitable than the tempered glass screen material with optical performance in terms of durability and outstanding performance, GT's ASF sapphire material It can be widely applied to other surfaces and touch the screen and we are currently trying to grasp where multiple prospects ideal opportunity. "
At the show, GT will be marketing GT ASF-grown sapphire material has unique properties for applications used to cover the surface and touch. ASF grown sapphire has excellent durability and resistance to scratches performance, rugged phone, camera protective glasses, POS machines and equipment as well as smart phones and other types of touch-touch device ideal for surface applications.
