Second half of the XX century was marked by a rapid development of sapphire shaped
crystal growth technologies, driven by the demands for fast, low-cost, and technologically …

Sapphire shaped crystals are considered as a favorable material platform of the terahertz
(THz) waveguide and fiber optics. Unique physical properties of sapphire, along with …

Fiber Crystal Growth from the Melt reviews the growth, modelling, characterization and
application of single crystal fibers are reviewed. Due to their very large length-to-diameter …

A brief review of the methods of fabrication of single crystalline oxide fibres is presented. It is
shown that the internal crystallisation method (ICM), that is crystallisation of the fibres in …

Современные композиты, которым предшествовали здравствующие поныне
стеклопластики [1] и прародители которых упоминаются в Библии [2], начались с …

Al2O3 (alumina) nanofibers have been synthesized by ex situ simple two-step processes
consisting of the hydrolysis and dehydration of spherical Al nanoparticles (80–120nm). The …

Single-crystal sapphire fibers with diameter of 400-1000 µm and length of 500 mm were
successfully grown by the edge-defined film-fed growth (EFG) method. The cross section is …

The only monocrystalline oxide fibre that has been used in numerous published works on
oxide-fibre/Ni-based-matrix composites is sapphire fibre. That work was aimed at obtaining …

Oxide fiber-reinforced Ni-base composites have long been considered as attractive heat-
resistant materials. After several decades of active research, however, interest in these …

Single crystalline YAG fibres are now produced by an internal crystallization method.
Essentially, the method is crystallization of the oxide melt infiltrated into continuous channels …