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This week I saw the above video in which sapphire glass panel for iPhone 6 was subjected to a first round of extreme tests to show us how resistant it is. Based on the footage above, and the one below, the British professor Neil Alford says that the material presented in the images appears to be sapphire glass, its resistance being the basis for confirming its origin.
In my opinion the screen being shown off in the video could well be a sapphire screen. If you make sapphire thin enough, and it's flaw free, you can bend it quite considerably because it has an enormous strength. I think they will be doing some sort of a lamination – binding different crystal cuts of sapphire together – boosting the toughness of the material, while they may also have induced some sort of a strain in the surface of the glass – either compression or tension – which means that it has extra strength.
Professor Alford was contacted by the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), at the beginning of last year to discuss the possible implementation of sapphire glass in screen protection panels, so there was interest from the company. Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has built a factory in partnership with another company, it being dedicated to the production of sapphire glass, the iPhone 6 being really the first iPhone terminal that will benefit from this technology.
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