Abstract
Verneuil successfully duplicated natural ruby at the turn of the century. Since then, diamond, emerald, blue and other color sapphires, quartz (including the amethyst and citrine varieties), spinet, and chrysoberyl have been added to the list of single crystals used as synthetic gems. Crystals such as rutile, strontium titanate, YAG, GGG, and cubic zirconia have also been used as diamond imitations. More recently, non-single crystal materials such as opal and turquoise have also been synthesized.
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A review of Soviet work on the growth of refractory crystals by RF melting in cold containers has been given by V. I. Aleksandrov, V. V. Osiko, A. M. Prokhorov, and V. M. Tatarintsev (in Current Topics in Materials Science, E. Kaldis, Ed., North Holland, Amsterdam, Vol. 1, 1978, pp. 421–480). Cubic zirconia. is covered, including spectra (but not the colors) produced by a variety of impurities and irradiation treatment.
Recent work by J. H. Freeman, W. Temple and G. A. Gard (Nature, 275, 634, 1978) based on British Patents by R. S. Nelson, J. A. Hudson and D. J. Matey, No. 1,476,313, June 7, 1973 and by J. H. Freeman, No. 1,485,364, Oct. 1, 1973 has demonstrated diamond growth by implanting accelerated carbon ions into diamond heated to about 600 °C. Growth rates of 3.2 μm/h were observed and the product layers, clearly identified as diamond, could be made p or n type by suitable doping.
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Nassau, K., Nassau, J. (1980). The Growth of Synthetic and Imitation Gems. In: Freyhardt, H.C. (eds) Growth and Properties. Crystals, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67467-9_1
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