Both images show regular glass on the left vs Invisible Glass by Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd on the right
Find the reflection in your monitor and cellphone to be a big distraction? Ever find you are watching yourself more in the reflection then say a movie? (I suggest this from a time I caught myself in that situation, so, it could be isolated to just myself.) Reflections in our gadget screens may be killed off simply by improving the light permeability of the glass.
At the Flat Panel Display International 2011 expo (FPDI), in Yokohama (Japan), Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd showed off their new "Invisible Glass." The tech consists of a glass substrate with special films applied to either side. Normal glass will allow 92% of light to pass through it, which 8% reflects back. The Invisible Glass allows 99.5% to pass with just a mere 0.5% to bounce off. The total luminous reflectance of the substrate is brought down to 0.1%. In the demonstration, there is a total of 30 layers of the special film, each only a new nano-meters thick.
No mention if the film could be used over a capacitive touch panel, but my assumption is that it will work. Hopefully, we will see devices with Invisible Glass by 2012. Companies should move faster.
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