Alon Optical Ceramic

It is marketed under the name alon by surmet corporation.

Alon optical ceramic. Schneider vice president of marketing for fusion ceramics inc carrollton ohio will retire effective december 31 2013. The mechanical thermal and optical properties of alon products produced commercially. The mechanical thermal and optical properties of alon products produced commercially by surmet corporation have been measured and this new data will be presented. Surmet is the only company globally that manufactures alon.

Optical properties of ceramics both alon and spinel are transparent in the near uv visible and mid ir wavelength regions. Alon or aluminum oxynitride is an amazing and unique transparent advanced ceramic that is polycrystalline made from powder with a cubic spinel crystal structure. Alon optical ceramic is a durable window material for uv visible and mid ir window and dome applications. Aluminum oxynitride alontmoptical ceramic is a transparent ceramic material which combines transparency from the uv to the mwir with excellent mechanical properties.

Alon s optical and mechanical properties are isotropic by virtue of its cubic crystalline structure. Aluminium oxynitride or alon is a ceramic composed of aluminium oxygen and nitrogen. In the popular media and in the star trek community it is commonly referred to as transparent aluminum. Optical ceramic can be made to order as windows domes plates rods and tubes in a wide range of sizes and thicknesses by a variety of conventional ceramic forming methods such as injection molding isostatic pressing and slipcasting.

David schneider to retire from fusion ceramics. Alon is a polycrystalline transparent ceramic and known for its ballistic performance hardness and superior optical clarity. Spinel is preferred over alon mostly in applications where high transmission is required in the 4 to 5 µm wavelength range. Alon is optically transparent 80 in the near ultraviolet visible and midwave infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Comparisons to previously measured data will be made. Figure 1 shows calculated optical transmittance of alon and spinel at 2 mm thickness.