Corning developed flat glass now used for LCDs in the 1960s for car windshields.
This time it is the impossibly thin, flat glass used to make liquid crystal displays.
For instance, without Corning's flawless and thin flat glass, electronics companies couldn't make those small, sleek televisions that hang on walls.
Eastman Kodak, once a pioneer in traditional film cameras, ended up in bankruptcy after more than a century in business, while Corning keeps on going churning blockbuster products like the fiber optic cable and flat glass.
Instead of being flat, the glass is slightly wavy (somewhat like the glass a shower stall), which more effectively focuses the light on the underlying solar cells.
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Corning (GLW) announced on Wednesday that its profit dropped 53 percent in the fourth quarter but revenue rose 7 percent on stronger sales of glass for flat-screens.
The flat-roofed, rectangular glass house, with white travertine marble floors and decks, floats elegantly on steel supports along the banks of the Fox River in Plano, Ill.
The glass front is entirely flat, and sits flush with the polycarbonate casing -- unlike the slightly protruding, curved screen edges of the 8X.
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Richardson expects that transparent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) will be embedded in structural glass, so that flat clear panels will provide a plethora of lighting options.
Overall it has undecorated flat surfaces with a plate of glass on the front all the way out to a very thin rim and a blank back.
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They coated the array with a thin film of gold and placed it above a flat, gold-coated sheet of glass.
The Flat and lustrous, this single pane of glass is totally obstruction-free.
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The lower level is outfitted with a 50-inch flat-screen television, a wine fridge and a glass light-up bar.
The angular edges from before have been banished, replaced by a profile that curves up to meet a few millimeters worth of flat surface that then curves back again to meet the glass up top.
In LCDs silane gas breaks down into a film of silicon that forms the transistors that stimulate the pixels in the screen. (Flat-panel screens are essentially large semiconductor devices that sit on pieces of glass rather than on silicon wafers.) Another gas, nitrogen trifluoride, cleans the chambers in which both chips and LCDs are made.
For a flat fee of 130 Argentinean pesos, tour-goers receive an Italian crystal wine glass along with a map indicating each stop on the circuit.
To that end, Nissan incorporated a glass roof, to let in daylight, and a high-resolution seven-inch flat panel monitor for watching videos, using the Internet, or controlling cabin temperature, lighting, etc.
The flat panel displays, which make kaleidoscopic colors when jabbed with a finger, contain liquid crystal sandwiched between layers of glass or plastic which becomes opaque with an electric current.
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