Custom Sapphire rods
Precision sapphire rods find diverse applications, boasting polished surfaces for optical and wear uses, or fine-ground surfaces for insulation. These rods come in various outer diameters and lengths, with minimum ODs reaching 0.3mm. C-cut sapphire rods are favored for minimized birefringence and excellent mechanical properties, ideal for continuum generation. Alternatively, R-cut or randomly oriented rods are also available.
Primarily utilized in pumps (such as the piston/plunger rod in HPLC), lamps, gaskets, insulators, and wear applications, sapphire rods serve versatile purposes.
HY specializes in offering customized sapphire rods with polished surfaces or fine-ground finishes. The main varieties include cylindrical rods, sapphire tapered rods, and sapphire tips/needles, with the ability to manufacture micro sapphire rods as small as 0.3mm.
We are an OEM custom sapphire rod supplier, our extensive selection of sapphire rods caters to various applications, including Ram pumps, Plunger rods, Laser rangers, Laser designators, Insulators, and Measuring rods. Custom shapes, such as both ends flat, one end radius, both end radii, saddle pins, and special shapes, can be crafted to meet specific customer requirements.
The achievable specifications for our sapphire rods encompass a starting diameter of 0.3mm, lengths up to 600mm, and surface quality up to 40/20.
HY is a custom sapphire rod manufacturer that mainly produces custom sapphire rods according to customer specs and requests. Please feel free to contact us to discuss your sapphire needs and get a free quote.
Why do sapphire rods have such high performance?
Sapphire material is composed of 99.99% alumina oxide, rendering it an exceptionally hard substance, second only to diamond in hardness. Its colorless nature and outstanding transparency make it a preferred choice for various technical and optical applications. Sapphire exhibits excellent polishability and robust chemical resistance.
Whether transparent or not, sapphire tubes and rods are the preferred materials for a wide range of applications. The term “exceptional” aptly describes sapphire’s performance across mechanical, optical, thermal, and chemical conditions.
With its bio-inert nature, sapphire is a perfect material for applications in bioengineering, dental work, and medical bone implants. The strong wear and abrasion resistance of sapphire makes it particularly suitable for rod-bearing applications.
Sapphire rods excel in applications involving high abrasion and wear, ensuring dimensional stability for rod bearings and standoffs.
Widely utilized in medical devices, precision machinery, and inspection instruments, sapphire rods are prized for their remarkable properties, including high hardness, strength, scratch resistance, high-temperature resilience, purity, chemical durability, and superior radiation stability.
Sapphire rods are ideal for high-temperature applications, maintaining their shape and dimensions due to an extremely high softening point exceeding 2000°C. These rods are chemically inert and resist attacks from most processing environments, including acids and alkalis at temperatures up to approximately 1,000°C.
Sapphire rods are extremely strong in extreme temperatures and have incredible chemical and plasma resistance
Sapphire rods boast exceptional chemical and plasma resistance, making them highly suitable for a range of applications.
Owing to the extraordinary chemical resistance of sapphire rods at elevated temperatures, they are particularly well-suited for use in plasma chambers and sapphire lamp applications. Notably, only hot caustic salts have the potential to etch sapphire rods, while other solvents, acids, and caustics do not affect sapphire, including molten metals. This unique property ensures the safe handling and processing of chemicals in a chemically pure environment.
The chemical and bio-inert nature of sapphire rods makes them ideal for critical applications in medical, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and other industries where maintaining purity and health is paramount.
A supported sapphire rod can withstand temperatures up to 2000°C without altering its shape significantly and with minimal impact on mechanical performance. In high-temperature furnace systems, sapphire rods are excellent choices for rollers and standoffs, remaining straight and dimensionally precise up to 1800°C. Sapphire’s extreme chemical resistance prevents many materials from adhering to it, even at high temperatures.
Sapphire rods hold the highest temperature rating among all optical materials, maintaining their integrity in both oxidizing and inert atmospheres.
Custom Sapphire Optical Parts Service With Easy
HY is a leading custom sapphire glass parts manufacturer specializing in the production of custom sapphire crystal parts. Our comprehensive solutions for custom sapphire optical parts fabrication encompass shaping, grinding, drilling, and polishing. Additionally, we offer coating solutions tailored to enhance and optimize performance across a wide spectrum of applications.
Backed by over 12 years of diverse experience, HY offers effective methods for polishing custom sapphire parts, ensuring low roughness, high surface quality, and precise surface accuracy.
We provide an extensive variety of custom sapphire optical parts, ranging from round and rectangular shapes to step configurations. Furthermore, we excel in crafting custom sapphire optics parts with diverse shapes and sizes, catering to specific requirements.
In HY, we turn complex to simple, following the 3 steps to start your custom sapphire optical parts project today:
1. Please Tell Us What You Need
Please tell us your specific needs, send a 2D 3D design drawing, details size, or a picture.
2. Get Solution & Quote
We will work on the best solution according to your requirements. The specific and best quotation will be sent within 24 hours.
3. Mass Production & Shipping
We will start mass production after getting your approval and deposit. Then we will handle the shipping for you. We are a one-stop custom sapphire optics parts solution manufacturer. You don’t need to worry about anything.
Sapphire Properties Reference Table
Artificial sapphire is a crystalline variant of corundum, also known as pure, single-crystal aluminum oxide (Al2O3). The distinct blend of its properties positions sapphire as the material of choice for demanding applications in mechanical, chemical, and optical fields. Below are the key features of sapphire glass.
- Chemical Formula:
- Names:
- Hardness:
- Class:
- Melting Point:
- Maximum Useful Temperature:
- Surface Quality:
- Axis Orientation:
- Young's Modulus:
- Tensile Strength:
- Flexural Strength:
- Modulus of Rigidity:
- Density (g/cm3):
- Transmission Range:
- Poisson's Ratio:
- Abbe Number (vd):
- Dimension Tolerance:
- Thickness Tolerance:
- Al2O3 (aluminum oxide)
- Corundum, Sapphire, Alpha-alumina
- 9 Moh's
- Hexagonal-scalenohedral
- 2053°C (3727°F)
- 2000°C
- 80/50, 60/40, 40/20, 20/10 (Scratch/Dig)
- C-Axis (C-Plane), M-Plane, A-Plane, R-Plane and Random
- 435
- 275 MPa to 400 MPa
- 480 MPa to 895 MPa
- 175 GPa
- 3.97
- 190nm to 5 microns
- 0.27 - 0.30
- 72.24
- ± 0.01-0.10mm
- ± 0.10mm
Get Your Custom Sapphire Project Into Production Today
HY is a reliable and high-quality custom sapphire glass parts manufacturer that provides precision custom sapphire parts. Our custom sapphire glass parts including sapphire tubes, sapphire lenses, sapphire rods, sapphire IPL light guides, micro sapphire rods, sapphire T-step windows, sapphire tapered rods, sapphire cones, sapphire wedges, sapphire optical prisms, sapphire substrate, sapphire watch glass, sapphire watch lens, sapphire single dome, sapphire double dome, ruby rod, ruby windows, ruby lens and so on. Competitive prices save you 20-60% purchasing cost. Contact us to get a free quote now.