On Tuesday, Apple's lawyers filed a motion asking the court to let it secretly object [PDF] to the Chapter ... had partnered with Apple to manufacture sapphire components like camera lenses ...

According to the court filing, GT Advanced Technologies must collect enough money from the insurance company to repair any damage to the furnaces used to grow the sapphire crystals. If it fails to ...

Physicists have placed part of a sapphire crystal into a quantum superposition, making it the heaviest object to show quantum effects, in a new take on Erwin Schrödinger's famous cat experiment.

A sapphire crystal weighing 16 micrograms is the largest object ever to exist in a quantum-mechanical superposition of two vibrational states. Researchers at the Hybrid Quantum Systems Group at ...