Supply Of Touch Sensitive Coating Used On iPhones Is Running Out

Every one of us is well aware with technology of this decade, touch screens, we all love using it in forms of our personal phones, tablets and laptops etc. This technology has rapidly increased and has made its way into almost every electronic gadget. But, sadly stating, this will not be able to stay with us for long if we do not find an alternative for the transparent material used in it. The transparent material used in touch screens is called indium tin oxide. This element is used for sensing our finger touches on the display screen of our smartphones.

“To keep costs down, electronics manufacturers will need to look to alternative materials. At the Semicon West conference Wednesday in San Francisco, industry experts reported on potential alternatives such as carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires that could someday become the dominant touchscreen coating.
During his presentation, Nanotech Biomachines CEO and CTO Will Martinez presented the audience with a transparent sheet covered in graphene — an emerging material made of a one-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms. He bent it back and forth to demonstrate its flexibility.
“Try this with ITO and ITO would be filled with cracks,” he said.”

Moreover, CTO and CEO of Nanotech Biomachines Will Martinez presented this graphene transparent sheet, thick layer of carbon atoms, which can be bent back and forth without braking or cracking.

The good about the scarcity of indium tin oxide is that now Apple has something new to experiment and the upside to this will be the early launch of bendable screen iPhones. Therefore, these phones may launch earlier than expected.

Foxconn is reported of implementing carbon nanotubes in other devices perhaps this year, and Samsung may have a role to play as well.

So what are your thoughts on this ?