Optical silicon is a high-purity material designed for superior infrared transmission, minimal optical loss, and exceptional durability in demanding applications. Manufactured through advanced refining techniques, it offers precise wavelength control, strong resistance to thermal and environmental degradation, and optimized optical properties. Widely used in laser optics, spectroscopy, infrared imaging, semiconductor processing, and aerospace applications, optical silicon ensures reliable optical performance across various industries.
Product Overview:
Optical silicon is a high-performance silicon material with exceptional optical properties, widely used in optical systems. Due to its high purity, low defect density, and excellent optical transmission, optical silicon is an ideal choice for manufacturing lenses, windows, mirrors, and other optical components. Its superior optical properties enable efficient light transmission, maintaining high alignment and stability of light signals, which significantly enhances the performance and stability of optical systems.
Key Features:
- High Purity and Low Defect Density:Optical silicon has an extremely low impurity content and defect density, ensuring stable optical performance, particularly suitable for high-precision optical applications.
- Excellent Optical Transmission:Optical silicon efficiently transmits visible and infrared light with exceptional transparency, especially in critical optical wavelengths.
- Optical Uniformity:Its high optical uniformity provides greater optical stability and consistency in applications.
- High Mechanical Performance:Optical silicon possesses excellent hardness, wear resistance, and high-temperature resistance, ensuring it maintains superior performance in harsh environments or under high stress.
- High Precision in Processing:The manufacturing process strictly controls impurities and crystal defects, and through precision machining and polishing, it ensures high optical accuracy and stability of the components.
Applications:
- Optical Component Manufacturing:Used to manufacture lenses, windows, mirrors, optical prisms, and other components, widely applied in optical instruments and fiber optic communication systems.
- High Precision Optical Systems:In precision optical systems, optical silicon provides stable optical performance and excellent light transmission, suitable for devices such as lasers, telescopes, and microscopes.
- High-Temperature Optical Applications:Its excellent thermal stability makes optical silicon ideal for high-temperature environments, ensuring the stability of optical systems under extreme conditions.
- Optical Communication:In the field of optical fiber communication, optical silicon is commonly used to manufacture optical components with high transmission efficiency, ensuring stable light signal transmission.
- Other Optical Fields:Due to its superior optical performance and mechanical stability, optical silicon is widely used in scientific research, medical devices, aerospace, and other high-precision optical instruments.
Optical Property | Value |
Transmission Range | 1.2-15 μm |
Refractive Index | 3.41776 @ 10μm |
Reflection Loss | 46.1% @ 10μm |
Structure | Single crystal, synthetic |
Cleavage Planes | <111 |
Physical Property | Value |
Density | 2.33 g/cm³ |
Melting Point | 1414 ℃ |
Thermal Conductivity | 163 W/(m·K) @ 313K |
Thermal Expansion | 2.6 × 10⁻⁶/K @ 293K |
Knoop Hardness | 1100 kg/mm² |
Specific Heat Capacity | 712.8 J/(kg·K) |
Dielectric Constant | 13 @ f = 9.37 GHz |
Young's Modulus | 130.91 GPa |
Shear Modulus | 79.92 GPa |
Bulk Modulus | 101.97 GPa |
Poisson's Coefficient | 0.266 |
Chemical Property | Value |
Solubility | Insoluble |
Molecular Weight | 28.09 g/mol |
Property | Value |
Material Name | Optical Silicon Crystals |
Available Size | 3-300mm |
Growing Method | CZ, FZ |
Type | N-type, P-type |
Transmittance Range | 1-10μm |
Crystal Structure | Monocrystalline |
Orientation | <100>, <111>, <110> |
Blank Shape | Round, rectangular, wedge, lens, step drilled, special-shaped |
Report | Compliance with ROHS and REACH reports |