IR transmitting rare earth gallogermanate glass-ceramics
US5786287A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 15, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jul 28, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 15, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S501/904
- WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A glass-ceramic article or composition which has better thermal and physical properties than the competing materials of zinc sulfide, spinel, or magnesium fluoride comprising 2-30 mole percent yttrium oxide and/or rare earth oxide, 25-80 mole percent germanium oxide, and 5-30 mole percent gallium oxide, based on the total moles of yttrium oxide and/or the rare earth oxide, germanium oxide, and gallium oxide; which article is over 80% by volume crystalline.
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