Flexible Glass: Advantages for Today, Advancements for Tomorrow
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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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Topics • What is Corning® WillowTM Glass? • Advantages of Willow Glass over other substrate materials • Applications that will benefit from Willow Glass

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

Corning® Willow™ Glass will help revolutionize electronics processing

45 gram ball dropping Corning" Gorilla' Glass

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

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

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

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

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

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