Brittle materials are widely used for producing important components in the industry of
optics, optoelectronics, and semiconductors. Ultraprecision machining of brittle materials …

Gallium nitride crystal is a typical difficult-to-machine material due to its distinct anisotropy,
high brittleness, and high hardness. The molecular dynamics simulations of traditional …

The complexity of the interaction between the workpiece and abrasives, the characterisation
difficulty of the strain-rate effect, and the analytical difficulty of brittle-ductile coexistence …

YAG single crystals are the primary host materials for solid-state lasers at multi-kW scale and
must be processed using ultra-precision grinding to achieve a satisfactory dimensional …

Single-crystal silicon carbide (SiC) has been widely applied in the military and civil fields
because of its excellent physical and chemical properties. However, as is typical in hard-to …

Gallium nitride single crystal (GaN) is difficult to achieve high-efficiency and low-damage
machining due to anisotropy, high hardness and brittleness. Nanoscratch tests of GaN …

Gallium gadolinium garnet (GGG) single crystals are the primary host material for making the
high-power solid-state lasers. GGG single crystals are difficult-to-machine materials due to …

Leucite glass ceramics are high-performance denture materials due to their high mechanical
strength, excellent light transmittance, and excellent biocompatibility. Glass-ceramic denture …

Magnetic field-tuned dislocation plasticity (ie, magneto-plasticity) has attracted growing
attention for assistance to limit the damage evolution of brittle ceramics in the material …

Continuous fiber reinforced metal matrix composites (CFMMCs) offer higher specific
strength, specific modulus, and operating temperature than matrix metals due to the unique …