Fabrication of transparent ytterbium-doped yttrium oxide laser ceramics

• Main Author: Koh, Jun Jie
• Other Authors: Tang Dingyuan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Ceramic materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/67700
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Transparent ceramics is a wonderful solid state material that does not only retain its properties of traditional ceramics but also have optical transparency, as its naming suggests. Unlike traditional ceramics, transparent ceramics are much tougher and harder, more capable of withstanding harsh envi...