Recent advances in ALON™ Optical Ceramic

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5786, Issue , 2005, Pages 71-82

  Wahl, Joseph M ^a   Hartnett, Thomas M ^a   Goldman, Lee M ^a   Twedt, Richard ^b   Warner, Charles ^b  

^a Surmet Corporation   (United States)

^b Surmet Precision Optics   (United States)

Author keywords

ALON; Aluminum Oxynitride; Ballistic armor; Domes; MWIR windows

Indexed keywords

ARMOR; BALLISTICS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DOMES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POWDERS; TRANSPARENCY;

ALUMINUM OXYNITRIDE (ALON); BALLISTIC ARMORS; MWIR WINDOWS; TRANSPARENT ARMOR;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 26844447177     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.607589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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