Physical Properties of Diamond and Sapphire

"This book is an outstanding monograph for diamond and sapphire materials system. The authors are outstanding researchers who know what is important in solid-state physics and emerging materials development. Their expertise comes out strongly in this book. This book is sure to be adopted by faculty teaching advanced graduate courses in solid-state and optoelectronic materials and professional researchers."

--Prof. Dennis L. Polla, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)/Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota (ret.)

"This monogram describes essential details of crystal structure and growth, mechanical properties, thermal proper­ties, optic-al properties, and light scatter­ing properties of diamond and sapphire materials. It focuses on the physical prop­erties of these two materials by providing descriptions for each property and graph­ical data. The data provided describes the physical property over a range. For example, optical transmission is shown over the wavelength range from UV to far IR for both diamond and sapphire. Properties covered include mechani­cal (hardness, tensile and compressive strength, Young's modulus, and elastic constants), thermal (expansion, specific heat, conductivity), optical (transmission range, refractive index, absorption), light scattering (Raman· and Brillouin scatter­ing). The optical operation of two lasers are briefly discussed - chromium-doped and titanium-doped sapphire lasers.
This book would be of interest to re­searchers in industry or academia in ma­terial science or engineering who may use these materials in their work and need a handy material property reference for comparing physical properties of dia­mond and sapphire materials."

--John J. Shea, Physical Properties of Diamond and Sapphire. IEEE Electrical Insulation magazine.