Transparent Ceramic

We are offering Transparent Ceramic. Transparent Ceramics are the fruit of research that has been conducted by the Limoges Ceramic Processes and Surface Treatment Sciences Laboratory (SPCTS), a Joint Research Unit federating the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the local university, for some ten years. The SPCTS has developed a process to fabricate transparent ceramics, known as a YAGa (due to the name of the components: Yttrium and Aluminium Garnet). The feasibility of this operation was proven in cooperation with the Solids Modelling, Properties and Structures laboratory at the prestigious Ecole Centrale in Paris.

Transparent ceramics are produced by forming a nanopowder of ingredients into the desired shape, then sintering (heating below the melting point) in a vacuum to form an aggregate of microcrystals that exhibit optical and thermal qualities almost identical to those of a single-seed crystal.

This transparent ceramic production activity is also the fruit of a partnership between CILAS, Rhodia Electronics & Catalysis and the European Centre of Ceramics within the framework of the Ceramoptic project. This project is backed by the French Minister for Industry, the Limousin region and the City of Limoges.

a Wea re making tremendous progress in understanding, using, and manufacturing transparent ceramics,The quality wea re seeing is outstanding.a