Ling Bing Kong — Transparent Ceramics (2015)

Автор: Ling Bing Kong
Название книги: Transparent Ceramics (2015)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Химия
Страницы: 742
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

This book covers the latest progress in the field of transparent ceramics, emphasizing their processing as well as solid-state lasers. It consists of 10 chapters covering the synthesis, characterization and compaction, fundamentals of sintering, densification of transparent ceramics by different methods as well as transparent ceramic applications. This book can be used as a reference for senior undergraduate to postgraduate students, researchers, engineers and material scientists working in solid-state physics.

Transparent polycrystalline ceramics have been found various applications as laser
hosts, infrared (IR) windows/domes, lamp envelopes, and transparent armors,
instead of their glass and single-crystal counterparts, due to their processing flexibility
in fabricating items with large sizes and complex shapes and more importantly
cost-effectiveness. High optical transparent ceramics require high purity and
high density. To achieve high-purity final products, it is necessary to use highpurity
precursor powders, which requires the use of various advanced synthetic
methods, such as chemical coprecipitation, sol-gel, thermal spray and spray pyrolysis.
To get full density, various sintering technologies have been employed, such
as high-pressure (HP) sintering, hot isostatic pressure (HIP) sintering, vacuum
sintering and spark plasma sintering (SPS). It is important to understand the
interrelationship among powder synthesis, characteristics, compaction, sintering,
microstructure, grain size and performances in solid-state lasers and other
applications.
Although various books on solid-state lasers and ceramic processing have been
available in the open literature, very less information is present to cover both
the solid-state lasers and processing of transparent ceramics, due to the multidisciplinary
or interdisciplinary characteristics. The purpose of this book is to
bridge these two very important fields. It consists of 10 chapters, covering the topics
of transparent ceramic materials, ceramic powder synthesize, powder characterization
and compaction, fundamentals of sintering, new sintering techniques,
microstructural development of transparent ceramics, densification of transparent
ceramics by using different methods, solid-state ceramic lasers and other applications
of transparent ceramics. The book can be used as a reference for senior
undergraduate students, postgraduate students, researchers and engineers, in
materials science and engineering, applied physics, solid-state lasers, solid-state
physics, and so on. The financial supports from the start-up grant (SUG/2012) from Nanyang
Technological University and AcRF Tier 1 project (RG44/12) from Ministry of
Education, Singapore, are acknowledged.