Growth, Characteristics and Properties of Spinel Single Crystal, Fibers

Creep of directionally solidified alumina/YAG eutectic monofilaments

“…21,25,26,63,64 A sapphire tube furnace was radiation heated by an inductively coupled molybdenum suscepter. Argon was used to protect the molybdenum susceptor, which resided between the o.d.…”

Oxide Fibers

“…The growth process is extremely slow, typically 100 mm/hr but can easily be adapted to a wide range of ceramic systems for growing single crystal and directionally solidified eutectic filaments (27,28). Although the crystal structure is continuous and Saphikon produced lengths of up to 3000 m of fiber, usually the lengths of filaments produced in laboratories are short, being typically tens of centimeters.…”