"Invisible Glass" for Ultrabooks

Normal glass on the left. "Invisible glass" on the right.

A Japanese firm has developed a glass substrate that it claims as "invisible glass." Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd managed to reduce light reflection so that it can hardly be seen on their substrate. Ever been annoyed by glare on any of your devices? No? Glare might soon be a thing of the past.

So for most normal glass, about 92% of incoming light passes through it, and the rest is reflected back as glare. With Nippon Electric Glass's substrate, as much as 99.5% of the light is able to pass through. Only about 0.5% light will manage to reflect back as glare.

How did they manage to this? Surprise, surprise. It's a company secret. But the company did say that they used 30 or more layers in the process of creating the glass. The thickness of each being increments of nanometers. Cool stuff.

Normal glass on the left. "Invisible glass" on the right.

Source: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20111028/199970/