Corning Inc. recently unveiled Corning Lotus™ NXT Glass, its third-generation glass composition for high-performance displays. The company showcased this latest innovation at the Society for Information Display’s (SID) Display Week in San Jose, Calif., June 2-4. Lotus NXT Glass reportedly provides industry-leading levels of low total pitch variation—a metric that is essential to efficient panel manufacturing for high-resolution displays. It can reportedly outperform incumbent products using this metric by up to 60%.

“For nearly a decade, the display industry focused on one glass substrate attribute: compaction,” said Michael Kunigonis, business director of high-performance displays at Corning Glass Technologies. “Cooperating with panel makers, Corning studied this assumption and found total pitch variation is a more complete measure of glass stability, and set out to deliver the highest performing glass substrates to the industry.”

The improved stability of Lotus NXT Glass—and, in turn, better total pitch variation performance—reportedly enables manufacturers to develop display panels that feature up to 100 pixels per inch higher resolutions or up to 15% lower power consumption. Additionally, panel makers can improve cell assembly yields by up to 1.5%. For consumers, that means vivid, resolution-rich mobile devices with longer battery lives.