Sapphire : Material, Manufacturing, Applications - Dobrovinskaya, Elena R.; Lytvynov, Leonid A.; Pishchik, Valerian; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 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.
Keywords: Optical materials; Electronic materials; Electronics; Microelectronics; Lasers; Photonics; Materials science; Engineering; Optical and Electronic Materials; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Engineering, general