Revelation of causes of colour change in beryllium-treated sapphires

Chinese Physics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1976-1979

  Limsuwan, Pichet ^a   Meejoo, Siwaporn ^b   Somdee, Asanee ^b   Thamaphat, Kheamrutai ^a   Kittiauchawal, Treedej ^a   Siripinyanond, Atitaya ^b   Krzystck, Jurek ^c  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^b Mahidol University   (Thailand)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM; CHARGE TRANSFER; COLOR; COLOR CENTERS; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; SAPPHIRE;

BE-DIFFUSION; BLUE COLORS; COLOR CHANGES; COLOURATION; ELECTRON-SPIN RESONANCE; FE 3+; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDIZING ATMOSPHERE; ULTRAVIOLET-VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; ]+ CATALYST;

MAGNETIC MOMENTS;

EID: 46749147192     PISSN: 0256307X     EISSN: 17413540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/25/6/015     Document Type: Article

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