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Samsung First to Adopt Gorilla Glass DX for Camera Lens Covers

Corning created a new DX category of scratch- and shatter-resistant Gorilla Glass composite products for smartphone camera lens covers, enabling “professional-grade image capture,” it said Thursday. Antireflective coatings have been used on conventional cameras for a long time to improve…

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light capture, but they can scratch easily, said Corning. The new composites give smartphone camera lens covers enhanced scratch resistance and durability compared with antireflective coatings, plus they boost the “optical performance required for these devices,” it said. Samsung will be the first smartphone OEM to adopt the new composites, it said.