Corning helped create the LCD industry by inventing a process for making thin, flat glass with exceptional stability and unparalleled surface quality. Today, we are leveraging our expertise and assets to drive the next round of display innovations – better images, ubiquitous touch, flexible displays, and new form factors.
Creating richer entertainment experiences through display glass innovation
Brilliant Images Come to Life
Brilliant Images Come to Life
Today’s vivid, immersive displays rely on layers of Corning glass to provide a stunning viewing experience. Wherever you look for news and entertainment, chances are Corning glass is there, too. We are the science and engineering powerhouse behind revolutionary display inventions, including glass cathode-ray bulbs for the first televisions and the LCD glass that made smartphones and laptop computers commonplace. Now, Corning continues to set the standard for the industry, with its Corning® EAGLE XG® Slim Glass substrates, while also leading the way for the future.
Corning’s latest glass innovations and products are enabling the largest, thinnest LCD televisions yet. Think outstanding image quality on a 60-inch television that is the same depth as a premium smartphone – just five millimeters thick. Corning Iris™ Glass makes this possible by enabling designers to reduce set thickness and bezel width, resulting in a slim, sleek look. Corning Iris Glass is also perfect for the newest generation of ultra-thin, ultra-bright computer monitors.
For mobile displays, new design freedoms are taking shape with Corning LotusTM NXT Glass. Thanks to Corning Lotus NXT Glass, devices with OLED displays that curve, flex, or extend edge-to-edge across a device are all within reach. Flexible OLED devices use a plastic backplane substrate, which calls for Corning’s high-tech display glass to enable the manufacturing process. Corning Lotus NXT Glass continues to emerge as the leader for rigid and flexible OLED panels – outperforming competitors and enabling the designs and performance that consumers love.
A Distinctive History with Unparalleled Industry Leadership
Unparalleled Industry Leadership
The 1939 World’s Fair showcased a futuristic technology: a television. The TV included a circular cathode ray tube made by Corning.
By the 1950s, Corning was producing television glass for the black-and-white sets that were appearing in nearly every living room.
Another display revolution came in the 1980s, when Corning answered the need for a more precise, stable, and durable glass for active matrix liquid crystal displays. Corning’s fusion manufacturing process produces pristine glass that advanced the use of displays in personal computers, televisions, and mobile devices. Today, Corning remains a clear leader for precision display glass while continuing to innovate.
Our Strategic Advantage in Glass Technologies
Our Strategic Advantage in Glass Technologies
The Display market-access platform leverages Corning’s deep knowledge of its three best-in-the-world core technologies, as well as its four expert manufacturing and engineering platforms.
Learn how Corning leverages its focused portfolio to uniquely address the Display market.

Expertise in Glass
Expertise in Glass
Corning relies on its glass science expertise to formulate glasses with the right properties for today’s leading displays and cutting-edge future designs.
Corning relies on its glass science expertise to formulate glasses with the right properties for today’s leading displays and cutting-edge future designs.

Expertise in Optical Physics
Expertise in Optical Physics
Corning leverages its optical physics expertise in products such as Corning Iris Glass to manage light distribution, creating strong advantages for liquid crystal displays.
Corning leverages its optical physics expertise in products such as Corning Iris Glass to manage light distribution, creating strong advantages for liquid crystal displays.

The Fusion Process
The Fusion Process
Corning’s fusion process makes large, thin, pristine sheets of industry-leading display glass and enables flexible OLED displays.
Corning’s fusion process makes large, thin, pristine sheets of industry-leading display glass and enables flexible OLED displays.
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Carrying Handheld Devices into the Flexible OLED Future
Carrying Handheld Devices into the Flexible OLED Future
Learn MoreLearn about Corning’s glass solution to a plastic problem.
Learn about Corning’s glass solution to a plastic problem.

How display glass is made
How display glass is made
Learn MoreOur focus is on developing the technology behind the glass.
Our focus is on developing the technology behind the glass.

LCD vs. OLED: A #GlassAge Debate
LCD vs. OLED: A #GlassAge Debate
Read MoreFor us at Corning, materials innovators for 165 years, it’s been great to see a recent uptick in discussions about OLED versus LCD display panel technology - a genuine #GlassAge debate.
For us at Corning, materials innovators for 165 years, it’s been great to see a recent uptick in discussions about OLED versus LCD display panel technology - a genuine #GlassAge debate.