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![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090514111838im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) Discovery Pore-free Ceramics Shine New Light on Lasers, Electronics and Biomedical Implants
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Researchers developed a new class of ceramics that are so pure and perfectly transparent that they can be used as a substitute for crystals in solid-state lasers.
Credit: Dr. Elizabeth Kupp, Adam Stevenson and Professor Gary L. Messing, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University |
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