Defect strategies for an improved optical quality of transparent ceramics

For the past years most reports on transparent ceramics were focused on improvements of primary parameters like total and in-line transmission, scattering and absorption losses. The present paper directs the attention to previously neglected issues such as the quantified representation of remaining visible defects and the diversity of optical quality criteria for different groups Of applications. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.