Corning has released the Gorilla Glass DX and DX + for better phone cameras

Someday 2019, mobile buyers began to accept ugly camera modules. The excellent photos taken by these cameras justified the design of three or six eye bulbs. And by 2020, society’s much greater ills were a priority due to stamp-sized camera bumps.

Where consumers saw the clumsy camera modules, however, the Corning glass manufacturer saw opportunities. Corning is popular today Gorilla glass which covers almost all high-end phones, the latest camera design of the phone has noticed a greater tendency for scratches, both due to the increased surface area of ​​the lens modules and the way the lenses are removed from the phones. When they appear scratched enough in a lens, the quality of the photos begins to deteriorate. It happens, there is a glass for that.

Corning today announced the latest compound: a new version of Gorilla Glass optimized for smartphone camera lenses. Technically a version of the new composite already exists, called Gorilla Glass DX and DX +; In July 2018, the company released this product for use on smart watch faces, indicating “better optical brightness, readability of sunlight, extra hardness and scratch resistance”. But Corning had to reformulate the DX and DX + compounds for smartphones to somehow claim a level of scratch resistance without it jeopardizes the quality of the photo and video, essentially maximizing optical brightness as it also sells durability.

“We’re seeing demands for better light management on different vertical devices,” says Scott Forester, vice president of marketing and innovation for Corning’s Gorilla Glass division. “As smartphone systems become more and more sophisticated, all of these lenses and what comes out of the camera have caused scratches. [Manufacturers] I said, ‘Well, I can’t use anti-reflective film there, so I have to deal with what I have today, especially the glass.’

Forester describes how the properties of this composite make it ideal for camera phone lens covers. Typically, the lens cover has an antireflective coating, reduces brightness, and allows more light through the lens to reach about 95 percent of the available light to reach the camera sensor. Corning says this new version of the phone’s DX and DX + lenses can capture 98 percent of the light while maintaining the scratch resistance of the standard Gorilla Glass. (He says the DX + product also meets the scratch resistance characteristics of sapphire glass, a synthetic material, for its durability, transparency and cost added to the gadgets).

Corning does not want to share which specific phone models will be shipped soon with Gorilla Glass DX or DX + service. And in line with past behavior, Corning did not comment on the nature of its partnership with Apple. He said Samsung will be the first customer to use Gorilla Glass DX for the camera lens covers of the Gorilla Glass DX phone. Samsung is at least five new products are expected to appear next month At the annual Unpacked Summer Event, it can include new folding phones and laptops; it is also likely that Corning will have an official launch of this new product, although Corning has not confirmed this.

Corning isn’t the only manufacturer that wants to enhance smartphone photos — albeit with incremental improvements — with technology designed to improve lenses instead of image sensors. It was written by Julian Chokkattu of WIRED earlier this year A startup called Metalenz, which now replaces the usual stack of multiple camera lenses with a single lens built on a small sheet of glass.

“Look carefully under the microscope and you will see nanostructures that measure a thousandth of the width of human hair,” Chokkattu wrote. “These nanostructures distort light rays in a way that corrects many of the shortcomings of single-lens camera systems.” This space-saving technology, if expanded, could put more sensors and cameras under the screen by more phone manufacturers and could be used in other products.

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