Touchscreen Glass as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2017-05-06
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922 words · ~4 min read
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there's an old saying about throwing stones if you live in Glass Houses an ad
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Dodge that only really works because Normal glass is highly shatter but these
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days we use glass for a heck of a lot more than Windows we interact with our
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phones tablets and even some laptops through touching a glass screen and
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considering these are all portable devices that we drop hit and generally
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mistreat you'd think it would be far easier to shatter them now don't get me
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wrong the internet is full of stories of people who've cracked their iPhones but
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many people go years and years without anything happening to their glass
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displays this is at least partially thanks to toughened glass which is
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nearly ubiquitous on Modern mobile devices but how exactly does something
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as thin and lightweight as modern smartphones stand up to your cats claws
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or drops onto hard concrete floors many kinds of toughened glass such as Corning
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ever popular Gorilla Glass work because they have been chemically toughened
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intuitively it might seem like chemical toughening is no substitute for just
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making the glass thicker but certain chemicals can have a massive impact on
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materials think of how strong and light carbon fibers are but toughened glass
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like Gorilla Glass that might be in your smartphone is made by a process called
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ion exchange you see the glass that
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Corning uses as a base for Gilla glass has sodium ions embedded in it which can
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be easily displaced by larger potassium
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ions sheets of this sodium containing glass are dipped into a bath of liquid
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pottassium salt that's heated up to 400°
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C or over 750 fah for our American
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viewers the heat allows the potassium in the bath to displace the smaller sodium
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ions because the potassium ions are larger they actually compress the glass
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on a molecular level giving it much greater strength and
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resistance to scratches and other kinds of damage now if you'd like to learn
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more about Gorilla Glass specifically including what it can actually do in the
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real world and some of its other various limitations you can learn more about it
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in this video but even though Corning currently has a huge share of the
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touchscreen glass Market with gorilla glass that doesn't mean it's the only
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technology out there specifically sapphire glass has been tossed around
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quite a bit as a possible replacement for silicon based glasses the aluminum
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oxide molecules that make up Sapphire gems bond together in a trigonal crystal
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structure that makes it extremely strong and hard to the point where it's almost
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impossible to scratch and because the typical blue color of sapphires is due
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to impurities that can be removed synthetic Sapphire can easily be made to
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be colorless it's also even more transparent than current types of common
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smartphone glass glass so why isn't everyone using it yet well a huge part
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of the reason is simply cost according to estimates from Corning sapphire glass
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is about 10 times more expensive to make than Gorilla Glass in fact Apple
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invested around a billion dollar in a sapphire Factory in Arizona that ended
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up failing partially due to manufacturing difficulties I guess
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producing a quar ton cylinder of sapphire in a furnace reaching thousands
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of degrees is no small task Sapphire
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isn't perfect either because while its hardness means it's tougher to scratch
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it also means that it's brittle so it might not provide much better shatter
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resistance than current Technologies but in a world that's increasingly reliant
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on mobile devices that we want to be thin light and portable Sapphire screens
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may become the more popular choice in the near future just don't present a
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sapphire iPhone on a ring when you're proposing to your future spouse that
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would be weird but what you could do along with presenting a ring to your
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spouse in order to get married is set up a cool website for the two of you with
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Squarespace they have 247 support via
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live chat and email so if you have any problems you can contact them and it
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only costs $8 a month and when you sign up for a year you get a free domain they
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have responsive designs your website can scale to look great on a computer a
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tablet or even your sapphire glass phone they have a Commerce module so you can
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sell tickets to your extremely exclusive wedding and they have cover page modules
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so that once everything fails you can make like a dating resume of sorts they
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even have new accelerated mobile pages also known as amp which makes your site
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load faster on mobile devices on average they load four times faster than non-amp
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Pages saving your visitors and possible
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suitors much valuable time start a trial with no credit card or spouse required
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and start building your website today all right guys thanks for watching this
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