21 Facts About Synthetic sapphire

The name Synthetic sapphire is derived from the Latin "saphirus" and the Greek "sapheiros", both of which mean blue.

Significant Synthetic sapphire deposits are found in Australia, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, United States and Vietnam.

For example, both ruby and Synthetic sapphire are found in Myanmar's Mogok Stone Tract, but the rubies form in marble, while the Synthetic sapphire forms in granitic pegmatites or corundum syenites.

Every Synthetic sapphire mine produces a wide range of quality, and origin is not a guarantee of quality.

For Synthetic sapphire, Kashmir receives the highest premium, although Burma, Sri Lanka, and Madagascar produce large quantities of fine quality gems.

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Blue Synthetic sapphire exists in various mixtures of its primary and secondary hues, various tonal levels and at various levels of saturation .

Star Synthetic sapphire is a type of Synthetic sapphire that exhibits a star-like phenomenon known as asterism; red stones are known as "star rubies".

The value of a star Synthetic sapphire depends not only on the weight of the stone, but the body color, visibility, and intensity of the asterism.

Rare variety of natural Synthetic sapphire, known as color-change Synthetic sapphire, exhibits different colors in different light.

Synthesis of blue Synthetic sapphire came in 1909, after chemical analyses of Synthetic sapphire suggested to Verneuil that iron and titanium were the cause of the blue color.

Artificial Synthetic sapphire material is identical to natural Synthetic sapphire, except it can be made without the flaws that are found in natural stones.

Many methods of manufacturing Synthetic sapphire today are variations of the Czochralski process, which was invented in 1916 by Polish chemist Jan Czochralski.

Synthetic sapphire is produced industrially from agglomerated aluminum oxide, sintered and fused in an inert atmosphere, yielding a transparent but slightly porous polycrystalline product.

The availability of cheap synthetic sapphire unlocked many industrial uses for this unique material.

In 2014 Apple consumed "one-fourth of the world's supply of Synthetic sapphire to cover the iPhone's camera lens and fingerprint reader".

Thin Synthetic sapphire wafers were the first successful use of an insulating substrate upon which to deposit silicon to make the integrated circuits known as silicon on Synthetic sapphire or "SOS"; now other substrates can be used for the class of circuits known more generally as silicon on insulator.

CMOS chips on Synthetic sapphire are especially useful for high-power radio-frequency applications such as those found in cellular telephones, public-safety band radios, and satellite communication systems.

In one process, after single crystal Synthetic sapphire boules are grown, they are core-drilled into cylindrical rods, and wafers are then sliced from these cores.

Wafers of single-crystal Synthetic sapphire are used in the semiconductor industry as substrates for the growth of devices based on gallium nitride .

The use of Synthetic sapphire significantly reduces the cost, because it has about one-seventh the cost of germanium.

Titanium-Synthetic sapphire lasers are popular due to their relatively rare capacity to be tuned to various wavelengths in the red and near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.