Corning Incorporated (GLW), the world`s leading supplier of high refractive index glass for eyewear, announced today that the company has developed 300-millimeter diameter glass wafers in select refractive indexes optimized for augmented reality (AR) device makers. These wafers offer the largest available size of high refractive index glass on the market today. Similar to the semiconductor industry, larger wafers are expected to reduce customers` manufacturing costs.
Corning`s ultra-flat, high-index glass wafers are used to make waveguides, a key optical component in AR wearables. Larger-sized wafers enable lower cost for customers through a combination of material and equipment utilization improvements, which in turn support customers` efforts to make AR wearables more affordable for consumer applications.
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