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Transparent Ceramics

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Transparent materials form a special group of materials that have a wide range of applications in various aspects of our daily life. Transparency, also known as pellucidity or diaphaneity, is a unique physical property of materials, which measures their ability to allow light to pass through them without the presence of scattering. At macroscopic scale, the behavior of the photons follows Snell’s law, because this dimension is much larger than the wavelength of photons. Translucency is another property closely related to transparency, which is also known as translucence or translucidity.

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One of the authors (LBK) would like to acknowledge the financial supports from the start-up grant (SUG/2012) from Nanyang Technological University and AcRF Tier 1 project (RG44/12) from Ministry of Education, Singapore.

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    Ling Bing Kong

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Yizhong Huang & Zhili Dong

  3. School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

    Wenxiu Que

  4. Anhui Target Advanced Ceramics Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China

    Tianshu Zhang

  5. School of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Sean Li

  6. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

    Jian Zhang

  7. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Dingyuan Tang

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Kong, L.B. et al. (2015). Introduction. In: Transparent Ceramics. Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18956-7_1

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