Corning Inc. and Tianma Micro-Electronics Group recently announced that Tianma’s low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) panels featuring Corning Lotus™ XT Glass are now in mass production. Corning introduced Lotus XT Glass last year at Display Week, an industry tradeshow hosted by the Society for Information Display (SID). After Tianma qualified the high-performance display substrates into its LTPS line, it won several new customer models and entered mass production.

 

Tianma reportedly chose Lotus XT Glass for its exceptional total-pitch variation, which enables precise component alignment and efficient panel production. Lotus XT Glass better withstands the rigorous, high-temperature processes used to create the latest high-resolution displays. For Tianma, that means higher yields and more creative design options. As a result, the two companies continue to collaborate closely, and Tianma selected Lotus XT Glass for two new models: a 5-in. full-HD panel and a 6-in. HD panel.

 

A leading manufacturer of liquid crystal displays (LCD) in small- to medium-size, thin-film transistor (TFT) modules, Tianma develops panels for smartphones and tablets, focusing largely on the mobile applications market. Its panels achieve resolutions of 350-450 pixels per inch (ppi), and the company is currently developing models that boast more than 500 ppi.

 

“We attribute the commercial success of our LTPS panels–in part–to Corning’s superior high-performance substrates. Lotus XT Glass is pivotal to our process. Its dimensional stability enables tight design rules,” said Wang Lei, general manager of Tianma Xiamen. “This helps us develop world-class panels that meet the growing domestic and international market demand for ever-increasing resolutions.”

 

“Lotus XT Glass continues to deliver the required performance within the LTPS and oxide space and has achieved mass production on multiple lines since its introduction,” said John Bayne, vice president and general manager of Corning High-Performance Displays and Advanced Glass Innovations. “We are pleased Lotus XT Glass is helping enable Tianma to develop and to produce products at the leading edge of panel performance.”

 

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