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Flexible Glass: Advantages for Today, Advancements for Tomorrow

Flexible Glass: Advantages for Today, Advancements for Tomorrow
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Flexible Glass: Advantages for Today, Advancements for Tomorrow

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Introduction
Dr. Dipak Chowdhury presents the advantages and future advancements of Corning® Willow™ Glass, a flexible glass technology developed by Corning Incorporated. The document outlines the benefits, applications, and future potential of this innovative material.

What is Corning® Willow™ Glass?
Corning® Willow™ Glass is an ultra-slim, flexible glass that offers superior surface quality, high transparency, and the ability to withstand high-temperature processing over 500°C. It is significantly lighter and thinner than traditional glass, with a 7x reduction in weight and thickness, and enables a 50% reduction in processing costs through roll-to-roll manufacturing.

Advantages Over Other Materials
Compared to thicker glass and plastic substrates, Willow Glass provides a perfect barrier, better transparency, and flexibility. It supports high-performance applications due to its dimensional stability and high-temperature capabilities.

Applications and Benefits
Willow Glass is suitable for various applications, including touch sensors, color filters, and TFT backplanes. It enhances device performance by being thin, light, and durable, making it ideal for mobile devices, monitors, TVs, and e-readers. The glass supports new features like 3D touch and seamless design.

Market and Technological Impact
The flexible nature of Willow Glass allows for innovative designs such as flat, curved, bendable, and rollable displays. It is cost-efficient and supports high-performance displays, enabling new markets and technologies. The roadmap includes applications in e-paper, flexible displays, and OLED lighting.

Development and Availability
Corning is developing a flexible glass ecosystem with partners, aiming for large-scale production. The glass is available in various sizes, with plans for increased production capacity.

Conclusion
Corning® Willow™ Glass represents a significant advancement in display technology, offering superior attributes for efficient processes and high-performance displays. The future of electronics processing is flexible, and Corning is at the forefront of this innovation.
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Flexible Glass: Advantages for Today, Advancements for Tomorrow Dr. Dipak Chowdhury Division Vice President and Corning® WillowTM Glass Program Director

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Forward-looking and cautionary statements Certain statements in this presentation constitute “ forward looking”statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward looking statements are based on current expectations and involve certain risks and uncertainties. Actual results might differ from those projected in the forward looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from those in the forward looking statements is contained in the Securities and Exchange Commission filings...

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Topics • What is Corning® WillowTM Glass? • Advantages of Willow Glass over other substrate materials • Applications that will benefit from Willow Glass

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What is Corning® WillowTM Glass? Over Thicker Glass Flexible/conformable • Flexible/conformable Ultra-slim flexible glass is a 50-200µm thick glass • 7x reduction in weight reduction in weight • 7x reduction in thickness reduction in thickness process cost reduction • ~50% processcost reduction byby enabling roll to roll processing enablingroll to roll processing Over Plastic • Perfect barrier ~7% better transparency • Superior surface quality High T processing –over • ~7% better transparency 500oC 1m wide, 300m long spool and Gen5 sheet of thin flexible glass • High T processing –over 500oC

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Frontplane: Color Filter Corning EAGLE XG® Slim Glass (Amorphous Silicon or "a-Si" LCD) Corning Lotus™ Glass (High Performance LCD) Backplane: TFT Cover Glass Corning EAGLE XG® Slim Glass (Amorphous Silicon or "a-Si" LCD) Corning® Gorilla® Glass Corning Lotus™ Glass (High Performance LCD) Corning® Willow™ Glass Touch Sensor Corning® Willow™ Glass

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Thin and light = Increased value Mobile Form Factor •Thin and Durable •Seamless •Thin, Light and Durable •Seamless •Slim bezel •Thin •Seamless •Slim bezel •Thin •Seamless •Slim bezel •Thin, Light and Durable Panel Performance •Power •Resolution •Durability •Power •Color shift (slate) •Durability •Power •Resolution •Motion blur •Durability •Color •Contrast •Reflectivity •Rewriting speed

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What drives need for flexible display substrates? • Conformable before flexible –value added application for conformable displays exist • Ahead of the cost curve through R2R processing –flexibility of plastic processing with superior quality of glass substrates Thin and Light and Tough Stylish? Foldable A Different World? © Corning Incorporated 2012

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Cost-efficient, high performance displays – Flexible glass addresses the challenge Customer Need Flexible Glass Advantages Corning Delivers Alternative materials High device performance Glass attributes in a thin, flexible format Efficient processing High device performance with efficient total system Highly efficient manufacturing ecosystem Differentiated products Enables new markets and technologies Added functions – flexibility, durability, active thin films, etc.

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Corning® Willow™ Glass enables key trends in display: Thin, light, high-resolution, & cost efficient Glass Processing R2R Hi-res Color Filter Roll-to-roll (R2R) Corning Willow Glass processing R2R Multi – touch Sensor Thin & Light Devices Thin & Light: Thin & Light: qTouch sensor qTouch sensor • 0.2-0.7mm à 0.1mm • 0.2-0.7mm à 0.1mm qColor Filter qColor Filter • 0.2-0.5mm à 0.1mm • 0.2-0.5mm à 0.1mm qBackplane qBackplane • 0.2-0.5mm à 0.1mm • 0.2-0.5mm à 0.1mm Ø20-40% z-height & weight Ø20-40% z-height & weight reduction reduction ØR2R processing enables ØR2R processing enables cost efficient...

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Corning® Willow™ Glass will help revolutionize electronics processing

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45 gram ball dropping Corning" Gorilla' Glass

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What is Corning® WillowTM Glass? Over Thicker Glass Ultra-slim flexible glass is a 50-200µm thick glass • 7x reduction in weight • 7x reduction in thickness • ~50% process cost reduction by enabling roll to roll processing Over Plastic • Perfect barrier Perfect barrier • ~7% better transparency Superior surface quality • High better transparency oC ~7% T processing –over 500 1m wide, 300m long spool and Gen5 sheet of thin flexible glass • High T processing –over 500oC

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Flexible glass enables device performance Surface Roughness Optical Transmission 330mm film sensor Dimensional Stability and High T capable Oxygen/water barrier

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Applications for Corning® Willow™ Glass demonstrated at SID Display Week 2012 –Booth 123 • Touch • Color Filter – 3x thinner than highperformance film sensor – 5x thinner than rigid glass color filter – 2% points higher transmission – No additional thinning needed – Delivers same resolution and brightness – Compatible with on-cell touch

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Flexible glass applications roadmap Lab-scale device demos Initial commercial products Next-generation technologies HP Oxide TFTs OLED or LCD Color Filter Flexible display OLED lighting ITRI-DTC Ch-LC display ProCap Touch Sensor University of Stuttgart TFT-LCD Flexible CIGS PV panels Roll-to-roll displays

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Flexible Glass Ecosystem Development Plan Fusion Process Corning + Customers + Equipment Vendors + research partners Corning Internal

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Flexible glass availability Now Quantity Rolls Development quantities Engineering quantities Pilot production Engineering quantities Note: Dimensions reflect maximum available sizes © Corning Incorporated 2012

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