Hard transparent domes and windows from magnesium aluminate spinel

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5786, Issue , 2005, Pages 56-63

  Digiovanni, Anthony A ^a   Fehrenbacher, Larry ^a   Roy, Don W ^b  

^a Technology Assessment and Transfer   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Domes; Radome; Spinel; Transparent armor; Windows

Indexed keywords

ARMOR; DOMES; HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MISSILES; RADOMES; SAPPHIRE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSPARENCY; WINDOWS;

IR IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPINELS; TRANSPARENT ARMORS; TRANSPARENT MAGNESIUM ALUMINATE SPINELS;

MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 26844582867     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.603953     Document Type: Conference Paper

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