Mending a scratched Sapphire glass lens: Your step-by-step guide. Before you begin, carefully examine the scratch. If it’s superficial, you might be able to polish it out at home.

Not only is glass less reflective than sapphire, it also transmits more light. Glass transmits roughly 90% of light, while sapphire's transmission rate is in the low 80s.

Sapphire, the hardest natural substance after diamond, might soon be used to make smartphone screens. Sheets of sapphire glass are already used by the military to create transparent armor, but if ...

He also pointed out that manufacturing glass is highly scalable, while Dr. Chan explained that it takes a 2,000-degree furnace to melt sapphire, which has a serious impact on the environment.

Using sapphire in smartphone displays is still too pricey for mainstream adoption, but eventually the crystalline material could become a viable threat to one of Corning's hottest growth businesses.

Yesterday, Apple's major technology partner for sapphire glass production, GT Advanced Technologies, announced that it was ready to commercialize its new ASF165 sapphire growth furnaces, with high ...

To counter the rise of sapphire, Corning is working on a new variety of glass that is very hard to shatter and approaches sapphire in terms of resistance to scratches. By Bogdan Petrovan Published ...

Around this time last year, the tech world was buzzing around rumors that Apple’s new iPhone would have a screen made out of sapphire, a material considered tougher than typical glass. Apple ...