Authors

Joseph W. Kolis

Document Type

Patent

Publication Date

5-20-2008

Patent Number

patent number 7374616

Abstract

Acentric, tetragonal lithium borate crystals are disclosed along with a hydrothermal method for forming such crystals. The crystals possess unique optical, non-linear optical, and other photonic properties and may be formed of sufficient size to be useful in a wide variety of photonic devices. In addition, the disclosed crystals are very hard and can be used in specialty grinding applications such as for grinding optical components for deep UV applications.

Application Number

10/888049

Assignees

Clemson University (Clemson, SC, US)

Filing Date

2004-07-09

Primary/U.S. Class

117/71

Other/U.S. Class

117/944, 423/279, 428/402

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