Crystalline materials optical properties

Barium sodium niobium oxide [12323-03-4] Ba2NaNb 02, finds appHcation for its dielectric, pie2oelectric, nonlinear crystal and electro-optic properties (35,36). It has been used in conjunction with lasers for second harmonic generation and frequency doubling. The crystalline material can be grown at high temperature, mp ca 1450°C (37). 

Aesthetic dental ceramics are essentially glass-matrix materials with varying volume fractions of crystalline fillers. Crystalline fillers are used in the glass matrix both for dispersion strengthening, usually at volume fractions of 40—70%, and for altering optical properties, usually at low volume fractions. Dental ceramics are generally manufactured from two distinct classes of materials, ie, beneficiated feldspathic minerals and glass—ceramics. 

The FPI principle can also be used to develop thin-film-coating-based chemical sensors. For example, a thin layer of zeolite film has been coated to a cleaved endface of a single-mode fiber to form a low-finesse FPI sensor for chemical detection. Zeolite presents a group of crystalline aluminosilicate materials with uniform subnanometer or nanometer scale pores. Traditionally, porous zeolite materials have been used as adsorbents, catalysts, and molecular sieves for molecular or ionic separation, electrode modification, and selectivity enhancement for chemical sensors. Recently, it has been revealed that zeolites possess a unique combination of chemical and optical properties. When properly integrated with a photonic device, these unique properties may be fully utilized to develop miniaturized optical chemical sensors with high sensitivity and potentially high selectivity for various in situ monitoring applications. 

The optical properties of bottles are a matter of crystallinity affected by nucle-ation, depending on the content and size of light-scattering polymer solids. The purity of the raw materials and the cleanness of the reactors are prerequisites for satisfactory quality. Bottle polymer should display as little contaminations as possible. The detection of impurities is carried out by the same methods as mentioned above. Thorough filtration of the polymer is therefore mandatory. It should... 

Crystalline Sn02 and WO3 photoanodes for water photoelectrolysis have been reported [24-26], The band gap of Sn02 (Erg = 3.5 eV) makes single crystals of this material of little interest with respect to solar induced optical properties. Wrighton and coworkers observed... 

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