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Transparent Ceramics

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Besides their applications in solid-state lasers, transparent ceramics have been used in many other areas, such as lighting, scintillators, opto-electric devices, optical systems, and armors, which will be discussed in detail in this chapter. New applications of transparent ceramics, e.g., as biomaterials, will also be mentioned at the end of this chapter.

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Kong, L.B. et al. (2015). Other Applications. In: Transparent Ceramics. Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18956-7_10

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