Low-Temperature Aging of Zirconia Ferrules for Optical Connectors

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2731-2733

  Lance, Michael J ^a,b   Vogel, Eva M ^c,d   Reith, Leslie A ^c,d   Cannon, W Roger ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; DEFORMATION; DEGRADATION; LOW TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLISHING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; STRESS RELIEF;

LOW TEMPERATURE AGING; OPTICAL CONNECTORS; ROUGHENING; ZIRCONIA FERRULES;

ZIRCONIA;

EID: 0035526531     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2001.tb01085.x     Document Type: Article

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