Optical Furnaces for Crystal Growth

by Kloos Gerhard

Overview

Well-defined single crystals of high quality are of importance in some branches of industry as well as in fundamental investigations of materials research. This monograph is devoted to the growth of crystals using optical furnaces. Optical furnaces can be understood and designed making recurrence to concepts that stem from analytical geometry. Therefore, these ideas are presented taking both “faces” of analytical geometry into account.

For the operation and maintenance of optical furnaces it is advantageous to gain an understanding of their principle of operation and alignment sensitivities. The method of analysis presented in this book strongly relies on pictorial representations and ray tracing is used as a means to visualize the working principles of these furnaces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945291203
Publisher:	Materials Research Forum LLC
Publication date:	03/07/2017
Series:	Materials Research Foundations , #9
Pages:	110
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.23(d)

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Crystal growth using optical heating 1

Chapter 2 Reflector surfaces and shapes 14

Chapter 3 Imaging furnaces featuring direct illumination 30

Chapter 4 Imaging furnaces with intermediate focus 77

Chapter 5 Laser heating 88

Keywords 99

About the author 100