The Media Edition weighs in at under one pound, but packs in the same 1.2GHz processor and Gorilla glass coating of its bigger sister.
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But Dr Bruel found that if a hydrogen-treated wafer is first fused to another wafer that has been given a glass coating, the force of the gas bubbles will instead cause a thin silicon film to peel off the one and on to the other.
And with scratch-resistant glass and splash-guard coating, Motorola PHOTON Q resists everyday scratches and spills.
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Another is to add a coating on the glass covering the cells to reduce glare and allow more light to enter the cells.
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Childs had planned for an ingenious coating of prismatic glass, which would animate the base on the exterior, but it was recently jettisoned, on practical grounds, and no one is talking about what will take its place.
Its product, which consists of sheets of glass with a metal-oxide coating, was first used in skylights in 2003.
The scratch-resistant mineral coating (read: not Gorilla Glass) laid atop the display does a fine job protecting the glass from in-pocket abrasions -- not that we Engadget staffers are in the habit of abusing precious mobile kit.
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Coating tools once used to put films on sheets of glass are being tweaked so they can also rapidly coat thousands of individual wafers.
In the new design, the cover glass is fully laminated to the LCD and an anti-reflective coating is applied using a high-precision plasma deposition process.
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With the addition of a reinforced, glass lens cover, the EX-G1 is tooled with a multi coating that is water-repellent and prevents light reflection from ruining pictures.
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Matching its older sister's 10.1-inch Gorilla Glass screen, there's now an all-over splash resistant coating (inside and out), with those intriguing cut-off corners we've seen already there to aid the ergonomics of handling the slab.
Adopted the glass "Fit Glass" strengthening of scratch resistant Corning, dirt is easy to wipe further coating is applied.
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