Gorilla Glass Manufacturing Process

Touch screen technology in fast few years has grown drastically in various applications, in order to overcome the difficulties faced by the touch screen; a new frontier technology has to take its part to revitalize the use of touch screen. In this counterpart gorilla glass has thrown a flash light focus on touch screen technology. Gorilla Glass has taken an apt plays in touchscreen technology. This scratch repellent glass is used to form touchscreen panel for portable gadgets like ATM machines, android mobile phones, tablets, personal computers and MP3 Players. It’s designed to protect display screens from scratches, sticky oils, fractures, etc.

 
Process 1: Melting the glass

• The Silicon Dioxide is mixed with other chemicals then put into a furnace to be melted.
• Oxygen and Hydrogen injected into the furnace to increase the heat transfer making the material melt faster.
• Resulting glass(Alumino – Silicate) Contains Aluminium , Silicon, Oxygen , Sodium ions.

  Process 2: Mold the Glasses

•  The molten glass is poured into the desired die and the required shape and thickness obtained.

 Manufacturing Process:

Gorilla glass starts as a mix of pure sand (silicon dioxide) and naturally occurring chemicals (resulting glass is termed as alumino-silicate) which splits the impurities and melting the sand. The molten glass fills up the bin and it is overflowed on each facet. During this "fusion draw" method, the resulting molten glass is pull down by a robust process to a long of 0.59 millimetre-thick sheets of Alumino-silicate Glass.

At this point, you have some very huge sheets of clear, clean, pure glass, however it’s not much stronger than regular glass. Gorilla gets its strength through a noteworthy action. Currently the glass sheet is dipped each into a molten salt bath where a chemical exchange happens. Potassium ions are infused into the glass. At the similar time, sodium ions exit from the glass compound. Here the potassium (K) ions are larger than the sodium (Na) ions. So a compressive stress occurs. That stress is really an honest factor and stops the glass from breaking on flaws.