Sapphire or replace glass becomes cell phone display material

&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">nbsp; 　　In the early morning of March 22, Beijing time, Yole Développement analyst Eric Vari, an American market research firm, said that industrial sapphire might replace glass as a production material for future smartphone displays. Industrial Sapphire is a material used as a transparent armor for military vehicles, but if it becomes cheap enough, it can replace glass as a manufacturing material for a mobile display. 　　This means that if the phone is accidentally landed it will not break, even if it falls on concrete pavements. Industrial sapphires are unlikely to be cheaper than Corning's "Gorilla Glass" (Gorilla Glass), which is made from the display of the iphone and other high-end smartphones. 　　A "Gorilla Glass" display is priced at less than 3 dollars and the sapphire display may be about 30 dollars. But Stradivarius points out that the price of sapphire displays could fall below $20 in two years due to increased competition and technological improvements. 　　Because the performance of sapphire is superior to glass, such price is competitive enough. In addition to diamonds, sapphire is stronger than any other natural material. It is three times times harder than "Gorilla Glass" and is about three times times more resistant to scratches. 　　Apple currently uses sapphire to protect the iphone 5 camera. Stradivarius says the big handset makers are considering using sapphire to replace glass. "I believe some manufacturers will start to test water and release high-end smartphones using sapphire displays in 2013," he said. "Compared with pure sapphire, the alternative is to use other lower-priced transparent materials for laminating with ultra-thin sapphire layers." 　　This method retains most of the performance advantage of Sapphire, while the price is not far from the glass. U.S. PV equipment supplier GT Advanced Technologies (hereinafter referred to as "GT") is developing a thinner than the hair of the sapphire layer, than the cell phone currently used a millimeter thin glass is much thinner. 　　At the same time, the company is also reducing the cost of sapphire production. The GT predicts that the sapphire display price may be only three to four times times the size of the "Gorilla Glass" display, and will be further lowered in the future.