Big breakthroughs in technology can hinge on the smallest of details. Consumer electronics, medical devices, industrial equipment, and other technologies are advancing at incredible pace with new features and functionality every year. Some of the biggest leaps in technology could come from new materials, which enable smaller, faster, and high performance components. Manufacturers are demanding precisely structured glass wafers to drive new applications in sensor, battery, and diagnostic technology.

No more trade-offs

Standard techniques for structuring glass wafers have reached their limits in terms of material tolerances due to manufacturing capabilities. Besides, structuring glass is always a trade-off: customers can either focus on low cost, flexibility or tight tolerances. There has not been a gold standard to combine these three customers‘ trade-offs in a beneficial equilibrium.

More precise than ever before: FLEXINITY® offers an outstanding level of geometrical flexibility and tightest structure tolerances, at an appropriate cost level.

Changing the game

New breakthroughs in wafer structuring will allow for smaller electronic wafers, sensors, and batteries to give designers and manufacturers more freedom in creating products and integrating components.

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Important industries

SCHOTT research and development teams came together to explore how to improve glass structuring. Four experts from different parts of the company drove their vision of glass-made design freedom.