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Glass Ceramics

Glass Ceramics

Glass ceramics have many notable advantages. Some of those are  thermal shock resistance, heat insulation, high strength, toughness, high temperature stability and isolation capabilities to name a few.  Within Advanced Optics, there are two main products that are available at an industrial scale: Macor®, and Corning® PYROCERAM®- Glass Code 9606.

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MACOR®

MACOR®

Widely recognized machinable glass ceramic used in many industry fields.

MACOR® gives the performance of a technical ceramic with the versatility of a high-performance polymer, while providing the machinability of a soft metal.

  • Can be made into very complex shapes providing tight tolerance capability
  • Its thermal and electrical insulation properties makes it also suitable in many different applications.
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Corning® PYROCERAM® — Glass Code 9606

Corning® PYROCERAM® — Glass Code 9606

It is strong, has a high thermal conductivity, a low dielectric constant and is transparent to RF.

Corning® Pyroceram® glass-ceramic material is opaque, light gray in color, and has high strength, high elastic modulus, and uniform dielectric properties. It can be manufactured in ogival* shapes, hemispheres, pressware sheets, and various machined shapes.

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