Wintek's 1 Glass Touch Panels Summon a New Era of Touch Technology
We had the pleasure of meeting a representative from Wintek Corporation last week. In our meeting, we discussed their newest touch technology called ATT (Advanced Touch Technology-you can view their slide show here). Traditional capacitive touch panel technology combines bonded sub components consisting of cover glass, FPC and the IC.
Production of traditional capacitive touch panel technology requires two pieces of glass (the sensor glass and the cover glass) laminated together. This process often experiences a high yield rate loss because of potential bubbling and particle contamination.
Due to this fact, the traditional capacitive touch panel technology is expensive to produce because of the high defect rate. Wintek has overcome this barrier with the introduction of their single glass of ATT- CTP technology.
Instead of laminating two pieces of glass, Wintek has developed a new approach to the capacitive touch panel, where the sensor is the coating on the back of the cover glass, completely eliminating the need for the expensive traditional capacitive touch panel manufacturing process.
This new capacitive ATT Panel has enabled Wintek to cut their production cost in half, while offering the industries only single glass, multi-touch, capacitive touch panel with, wait for it, a thickness of only 0.7mm on some models. The capacitive ATT panel also boasts better optical transparency, due to the elimination of the second piece of glass
We view Wintek’s Capacitive ATT Panels as a new approach in touch technology. Currently, the ATT products are marketed to phone, GPS, appliance and tablet manufacturers. The capacitive ATT panels being offered are of the 3.5”, 4.3”, 7”, 10.1”, and 11.6” variety, although Wintek also offers a variety of smaller capacitive ATT panel as well.
Check out the data sheet for their 7” capacitive ATT-CTP panel and click here for more information about Wintek’s display and touch technology.
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