"This book is an outstanding monograph for diamond and sapphire materials system. The authors are outstanding researchers who know what is important in solid-state physics and emerging materials development. Their expertise comes out strongly in this book. This book is sure to be adopted by faculty teaching advanced graduate courses in solid-state and optoelectronic materials and professional researchers."

--Prof. Dennis L. Polla, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)/Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota (ret.)

"This monogram describes essential details of crystal structure and growth, mechanical properties, thermal proper ties, optic-al properties, and light scatter ing properties of diamond and sapphire materials. It focuses on the physical prop erties of these two materials by providing descriptions for each property and graph ical data. The data provided describes the physical property over a range. For example, optical transmission is shown over the wavelength range from UV to far IR for both diamond and sapphire. Properties covered include mechani cal (hardness, tensile and compressive strength, Young's modulus, and elastic constants), thermal (expansion, specific heat, conductivity), optical (transmission range, refractive index, absorption), light scattering (Raman* and Brillouin scatter ing). The optical operation of two lasers are briefly discussed - chromium-doped and titanium-doped sapphire lasers.
This book would be of interest to re searchers in industry or academia in ma terial science or engineering who may use these materials in their work and need a handy material property reference for comparing physical properties of dia mond and sapphire materials."

--John J. Shea, Physical Properties of Diamond and Sapphire. IEEE Electrical Insulation magazine.