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OPTICAL FLUORIDES

PURIFICATION AND CRYSTAL GROWING APPLICABILITY AND PERSPECTIVES

Iordan Muhovski

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Year of Publication: 2013

Cover Type: Hard

Category: Mineralogy and Crystallography

Edition: First Edition

Pages: 394

Format: 7x10x1.6

Language: English

Summary

This book is a comprehensive research wherein the multi-experimental and theoretical studies and followings for growing perfect single or mixed alkali earth fluoride systems are exposed in detail. The accent is put on single calcium fluoride grown from the natural mineral – Bulgarian fluorite – the purification of which is accomplished by developed original, highly efficient technique for removing oxygen contaminants and some rare earth impurities. The developed techniques allow a simultaneous growth of axial-symmetrical boules, representing solid solutions of mixed fluoride systems with different content, as well as large diameter single boules with desired optical properties. Elements, manufactured from the grown crystals, are testified successfully in the optical systems of various devices. The unique optical properties of these crystal systems provide their intransient significance for manufacturing variety of elements for the needs of vacuum ultraviolet-infrared optics, laser techniques, astronomy, lithography and spectrophotometry, holography and dosimetry.

Аbout The Author

• Iordan Muhovski: Dr. Jordan Mouhovski is a single or first author of large number articles including review articles in high IF journals or in scientific books. His versatile interests are directed to multi-disciplinary area covering solid state physics, physical chemistry and electrochemistry. He received the degree in atomic physics from Sofia University in 1967. He got PhD degree in chemistry in 1982. From 1984 he has been working as a Head of Crystal Growth Laboratory in the newly established at that time Institute of Applied Mineralogy and its successors – Central Laboratory of Mineralogy and Crystallography (1995-2010) and Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography (after 2010) where he became Associate Professor (2007). Here his scientific activity enlarged on the growth of various single and mixed fluoride crystal systems and exploration of their properties. He developed efficient methods for deep purification of the starting materials and overall optimization of the growing technique itself and he is renowned as a world-famous specialist.