Solar-Tectic LLC to develop new sapphire glass material in 2015

Solar-Tectic LLC ("ST") announced today that in 2015 it plans to develop a new process for making sapphire glass using a technique which is patent pending at the United States Patent and trademark Office (USPTO) and which was reported on in Materials Letters, a peer reviewed journal (see "Crystalline Al2O3 on buffered soda-lime glass by e-beam").  

The new sapphire glass technique involves the deposition of a crystalline Al2O3 (aluminum oxide) thin-film on an inexpensive buffered glass substrate such as ordinary soda-lime glass, using a variety of common and simple deposition techniques, thus opening the door for a potential breakthrough material which is inexpensive and easily scalable for manufacturing and commercialization.

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