Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and components to the LED, optical, and consumer electronics markets, today announced that it will exhibit new sapphire products at two shows this month in addition to its traditional sapphire optical products. On display will be

• Large, thick, polished rectangular LANCE sapphire windows.

• SapphirEX (patent pending), a sapphire coating on glass.

• Ultra-thin DSP (double-side polished) wafers.

Look for Rubicon at the SPIE DCS (Defense and Commercial Sensing) show at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, from April 19-21, 2016. Rubicon will exhibit in booth 327.

The following week, Rubicon will exhibit at the Ceramics Expo in Cleveland, Ohio, at the International Exposition Center from April 26-28, 2016, in booth 724.

Rubicon, a U.S. supplier with an industry-leading reputation for sapphire optical quality, provides a wide range of sapphire products and has recently begun to offer some of the industry’s largest sapphire windows. Rubicon will exhibit several products new to its sapphire line-up including thin, double-side polished windows and wafers, and very large-area blanks and polished windows. Rubicon offers round C-plane sapphire windows up to 10 inches in diameter and A-plane windows up to 13.5 inches in diameter. Coming soon are very large rectangular sapphire windows up to 36 x 18 x 2 inches in A-plane – stop by the booth to ask about availability.

SapphirEX is a hard coating for glass, quartz and other materials that need high durability and cost effectiveness in applications that can benefit from the hardness and durability of sapphire with lower weight and the lower cost of a coated glass product.

Sapphire is a desirable material for high-performance applications due to its hardness and strength, transparency in the visible and IR spectrum, thermal conductivity, thermal shock resistance, abrasion resistance, high melting point and chemical inertness. As a result, it is ideally suited for extreme environments in a range of industries where material durability is just as important as optical clarity.

Sapphire is used in many high-performance situations including defense and aerospace, instrumentation, sensors and detectors, semiconductor process equipment, medical and laser applications.