Gorilla glass
is a type of glass made by
the Corning glass company.
While standard sheets of
regular glass are are formed
by being floated along
molten tin gorilla glass is
formed using Corning's
fusion forming process.
Essentially the molten glass
is poured over an isopipe
(pictured to the right),
where it drips evenly over
both sides, and eventually
comes to meet at the tip.
This way while the glass
forms it is not touching any
other material, which
results in a very smooth
flat glass. This method for
forming glass is also
capable of producing glass
from thicker than 2.00 mm
down to 0.1 mm (barely
bigger than a strand of
hair).
Gorilla glass is also
laminated for safety before
any people handle it since
very thin glass is can be
dangerous to handle.
Next the glass goes through
an ion exchange process
which According to android
authority gorilla glass
describes as
Corning claims that if the
smartphones of today were
made with the same thickness
of glass that the original
iPhone (1.3 mm) was made
with they would be basically
indestructible.
Of course corning is not the
only company that makes the
scratch and break resistant
glass used on electronic
displays. There is also
Dragontrail Glass and Nippon
Electric Glass. Nippon
Electric glass'
Dinorex glass even uses the
same ion exchange process as
gorilla glass.
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source: Corning’s
Fusion Manufacturing Process -
YouTube
source:NEG
Scratch Resistant Glass vs
Gorilla Glass - How Good is it?
(akshatblog.com) |
