Oxyfluoride Transparent Glass Ceramics

Functionalized Inorganic Fluorides: Synthesis, Characterization & Properties of Nanostructured Solids

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 273-305

  Mortier, Michel ^a   Dantelle, Géraldine ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DE LA MATIÈRE CONDENSÉE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Comparison of optical properties of glass ceramics and single crystals; Effect of high local Ln3+ concentration in crystallites; Glass ceramics synthesis by glass devitrification; Glass ceramics crystalline phase and doping ions; Morphology of separated phases; Optical properties of glass ceramics; Oxyfluoride transparent glass ceramics; Oxyfluoride transparent glass ceramics thermal characterization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952533177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470660768.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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