Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows (IMAGE)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Transparent Ceramics Make Super-Hard Windows

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This is a sample of transparent polycrystalline cubic silicon nitride with a diameter of approximately two millimeters, synthesized at DESY.

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Credit: Norimasa Nishiyama, DESY/Tokyo Tech

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