• Home
  • About Us
  • Quality Inspection
  • Our Products
  • About Sapphire
  • F.A.Q.
  • Sitemap
  • Contact
Sapphire Windows manufacturer
Sapphire Windowshome page
Sapphire Wafers manufacturersitemap
Sapphire Flat Stock manufacturerprintable version
Sapphire Tubes manufacturerF.A.Q.
About Us
sapphire parts
About Us
Quality Inspection
Contact
Our Products
sapphire parts
Micro & Macro Optics
Windows, Wafers & Flat Stock
Tubes, Rods, Spheres & Special Shapes
Sight windows and Sight Glasses
About Sapphire
Home | About Us | Quality Inspection | About Sapphire | Contact
Our Products: Micro & Macro Optics, Windows, Wafers & Flat Stock, Tubes, Rods, Spheres & Special Shapes, Specialty Windows - High Pressure, Vacuum & Sight Glass Windows

What is the difference between “random orientation” and a specific orientation (C-axis is not always the best, A-plane is actually easier to grind and polish, etc.).

The Random is material without any orientation. But Random may be and C- plane, A- plane and other.

Similar questions


Synthetic sapphire finishing
1) if sapphire is subjected to essentially constant tension of e.g. 350 MPa, does it experience fatigue? 2) Can you make a sapphire plate, whose width is given by a given Gaussian function (maximum e.g. 40 mm in the center), thickness about 1 mm, and length about 200 mm?
We have some sapphire wafers that are about .800" in dia. x .1" thick. We are drilling holes in these wafers from .066" dia. to .010" dia. The wafers are cracking so we need to anneal them. What is the process for annealing sapphire?
What is the difference between “random orientation” and a specific orientation (C-axis is not always the best, A-plane is actually easier to grind and polish, etc.).
I have been polishing c-plane sapphire using alumina slurry and have been getting around 12 um/hr removal rate. I am trying now to polish A plane sapphire, but my removal rate dropped considerably to less than 4 um/hr? Do the A plane and C plane polish differently?

<<< back to Frequently Asked Questions List
optical sapphire, sapphire windows, sapphire tubes, sapphire lenses, sapphire wafers, sapphire domes, sapphire polished, sapphire blanks, precision optical components
Sapphire stepped windows
Sapphire windows with holes
Sapphire watch crystals
Home | About Us | About Sapphire | Contact | Our Products: Micro & Macro Optics, Windows, Wafers & Flat Stock, Tubes, Rods, Spheres & Special Shapes, Specialty Windows - High Pressure, Vacuum & Sight Glass Windows
© Copyright 2007-2025 Precision Sapphire Technologies, Ltd.
Dzūkų str. 57-34, LT-02117 Vilnius, Lithuania, Tel. +370 5 212 26 91, Fax +370 5 212 26 92, E-mail:
© Copyright 2025 Precision Sapphire Technologies, Ltd.
Dzūkų str. 57-34, LT-02117 Vilnius, Lithuania, Tel. +370 5 212 26 91, Fax +370 5 212 26 92, E-mail:
Website design