Valerian Pishchik, Leonid A. Lytvynov, Elena R. Dobrovinskaya (auth.)0387856943, 978-0-387-85694-0, 978-0-387-85695-7
Sapphire: Material, Manufacturing, Applications provides complete coverage of sapphire crystal growth and fabrication, including important information on the physical, mechanical, and chemical properties. This book considers all known methods for the growth of sapphire and modification of its properties and includes the most exhaustive data on the crystal structure and physical-chemical properties.
Written by leading experts in the field of sapphire crystals, this book presents many various applications, including use in quantum electronics, radio electronics, radio engineering, radiolocation, ultrahigh resolution optics, high temperature optics, aircraft applications, atomic power engineering, and microwave engineering. Sapphire: Material, Manufacturing, Applications addresses the unusual, versatile and attractive physical and chemical properties of sapphire, as well as the trends in growth methods, and will be useful to specialists in crystal growth technologies, engineers and scientists who utilize sapphire in their work.
Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages i-xiii
Application of Sapphire….Pages 1-54
Properties of Sapphire….Pages 55-176
Radiation Effects in Sapphire….Pages 177-188
Crystal Growth Methods….Pages 189-288
The Regularities of Structure Defect Formation at the Crystal Growing….Pages 289-362
Influence of Chemical–Mechanical Treatment on the Quality of Sapphire Article Working Surfaces and on the Evolution of Surfaces under the Action of Forces….Pages 363-398
The Effect of Thermal Treatment of Crystals on Their Structure Quality and Mechanical Characteristics….Pages 399-446
Methods for Obtaining Complex Monolithic Sapphire Units and Large-Size Crystals….Pages 447-468
Back Matter….Pages 469-481
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