Custom Sapphire T-step Windows
Sapphire step windows stand out as a specialty at HY. Also known as T-Windows, these step windows excel in applications such as viewports, pressure, and vacuum situations. They are particularly well-suited as viewports for deep ocean vehicles, showcasing resilience to harsh saltwater conditions and debris, all while maintaining a thinner profile compared to traditional glass counterparts.
Optical windows utilized in high-pressure scenarios benefit from reduced thickness, and sapphire step windows deliver on this front. With a MOHS hardness of 9, second only to diamond, sapphire transmits light in the range of 190nm to 5000nm, making it an excellent choice for UV applications and mid-wave infrared.
While round sapphire optical components are typically the most cost-effective, rectangular windows can also be produced, often cut from round stock. At HY, we possess the necessary machinery to create custom-shaped windows as well, ensuring flexibility in meeting diverse requirements.
Please contact us to get a free quote for your custom sapphire T-step windows projects.
Why do sapphire T-step windows have such high performance?
Sapphire T-step windows are characterized by their exceptional hardness, strength, and wear resistance. Sapphire optical windows showcase remarkable resilience against harsh abrasives like sand and particulate matter, ensuring minimal impact on clarity. This particular quality makes sapphire crystal windows the preferred choice for a variety of applications, including aerospace windows, vision systems for downhole drilling, inspection windows, watch crystals, and gun sights.
In environments with high pressure, sapphire glass windows outshine other transparent materials, emerging as the top choice for applications in high-pressure vessels, deep-sea windows, and sight glasses. The outstanding thermal and chemical properties of sapphire further enhance its suitability for transparent applications in pressurized in-process systems, deep-sea exploration, and equipment sensors.
Typical applications of custom sapphire optical windows
The substrate of the sapphire optical window consists of synthetic sapphire crystal (Al2O3). Synthetic sapphire, a crystal ranking second only to diamonds in hardness, manifests as a single-crystal form of pure and transparent Al2O3. Its exceptional mechanical, optical, physical, and chemical properties position sapphire as an ideal material for designing and implementing high-performance systems. In comparison to other optical materials, sapphire stands out as the optimal choice for a broad spectrum of demanding environmental applications.
1. Aerospace: Sapphire windows find extensive use in aerospace equipment and instruments owing to their impeccable durability, corrosion resistance, high-temperature resistance, and broad spectral transmission range.
2. Sapphire flash lamps: Renowned for high-temperature resistance and low thermal expansion, sapphire serves as a protective window for robust lamps and flashlights, ensuring scratch resistance and preventing bursting.
3. Analytical instruments applications: In scenarios where the analyzed gas or liquid is highly corrosive, sapphire windows prove invaluable due to their corrosion-resistant properties. Moreover, their excellent transmittance across a wide spectrum from ultraviolet to infrared makes them widely applicable in analytical instruments.
4. Medical equipment applications: The outstanding durability of sapphire windows renders them indispensable in various medical applications, including laser medical instruments, laser beauty instruments, and endoscopes.
5. Optical applications: With the extensive spectral range of sapphire crystals, sapphire windows can be employed in a myriad of optical applications, spanning from ultraviolet to infrared. Their mechanical and physical properties confer an advantage over optical windows made from alternative materials.
6. Illumination applications: The heat resistance of sapphire windows makes them ideal for use as protective materials in high-brightness lighting applications.
7. Watches and industrial instruments: Sapphire windows serve as protective covers for watches or gauges, offering resistance to scratches, robustness, and a guarantee against bursting.
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.