Sapphire: Material, Manufacturing, Applications (Hardcover, 2009)

Application of Sapphire.- Properties of Sapphire.- Radiation Effects in Sapphire.- Crystal Growth Methods.- The Regularities of Structure Defect Formation at the Crystal Growing.- Influence of Chemical-Mechanical Treatment on the Quality of Sapphire Article Working Surfaces and on the Evolution of Surfaces under the Action of Forces.- The Effect of Thermal Treatment of Crystals on Their Structure Quality and Mechanical Characteristics.- Methods for Obtaining Complex Monolithic Sapphire Units and Large-Size Crystals.