Infrared-transmitting glasses

Titanium tetrafluoride [7783-63-3] TiF, has potential for use in dental hygiene products. It is used in infrared transmitting haflde glass. 

When Germanium dioxide is 99.999% pure, it is used as a semiconductor in transistors, in diodes, and to make special infrared transmitting glass. (The same types of compounds can be formed with chlorine, and Germanium IV) compounds occur mostly with the sulfide of zinc ore.)... 

Arsenic sesquisulfide occurs in nature as the mineral orpiment. It is used as a pigment in the manufacture of infrared-transmitting glass in semiconductors and photoconductors in pyrotechnics in linoleum and oil cloth for the removal of hairs from hides and as a reducing agent. 

AS2S3 has found use in the manufacture of glass, especially infrared transmitting glass, in pyrotechnics and, because it is a semiconductor, in photoconducting devices. 

Because the ion-assisted processes enable deposition at temperatures less than 100°C, deposition of diamond like coatings has been attempted on a wide range of substrates, e.g., stainless steel, Copper, ceramics,optical materials (plastics, polymers and polycarbonates),glasses,quartz, sapphire,infrared-transmitting optical materials such as germanium, zinc sulfide and zinc selenide, and a variety of electronic grade materials. Although thin films can be produced... 

Use Solid-state electronic devices (transistors, diodes), semiconducting applications, brazing alloys, phosphors, gold and beryllium alloys, infrared-transmitting glass. 

Use Phosphors, transistors and diodes, infrared-transmitting glass. 

The main properties of infrared-transmitting glasses are compiled in Tables 3.4-29 and 3.4-30. 

Table3A-29 Property ranges of various infrared-transmitting glass types...

Table 3 A-30 Commercial infrared-transmitting glasses, cont.

W. H. Dumbaugh Infrared-transmitting oxide glasses, Proc. SPIE 618,160-164 (1986)... 

Given these special properties, this high-performance material has been successfully used for a variety of applications such as telescope mirror blanks in precision optics and infrared-transmitting range tops (Section 4.3.1). This glass-ceramic has also been successfiilly mass produced for household applications such as cookware and woodstove windows (Section 4.2). 

Wilhelm A. A., Boussard-Pledel C., Coulombier Q., Lucas J., Bureau B., and Lucas P., Development of far-infrared-transmitting Te based glasses suitable for carbon dioxide detection and space optics. Adv. Mater. [Weinheim, Gen), 19, 3796-3800 (2007). 

Danto S., Houizot R, Boussard-Pledel C., Zhang X. H., Smektala F., and Lucas J., A family of far-infrared-transmitting glasses in the Ga-Ge-Te system for space applications, Adv. Funct Mater., 16, 1847-1852 (2006). 

Applications of infrared-transmitting chalcogenide glasses A.R. Hilton, A.R. Hilton, J. McCord, G.L. Whaley, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3436, p. 340-346, Infrared Technology and Applications XXIV, Bjorn F. Andresen Matija Strojnik Scholl Eds. 1998... 

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