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Silicon Window

What is

Silicon Window

?

In the 3-5um range, silicon is the most common material for making optical lenses and optical Windows in efficient infrared imaging systems.

Silicon Window

In the 3-5um range, silicon is the most common material for making optical lenses and optical Windows in efficient infrared imaging systems. Silicon has a high refractive index (about 3.4 in the 3-5um band), minimal surface curvature and small color difference, and in low-power imaging systems, usually no trimming is required. Silicon Windows are mainly used in national defense weapons, thermal imagers, infrared thermometers, night vision, satellites and so on.

Specifications

Material

Silicon

Size

1-300mm

Tolerance

+/-0.02mm

Parallelism

<3 arc sec

Flatness

1/10 lambda

Coating

AR BBAR HR

Silicon Material Certificate

Purity

>99.999%

Crystal Growth

CZ

Conduction Type

P Type or N type

Crystal Orientation

<100> or <111>

Resistivity

1-100 ohm.cm

Lattice Constant

5.42×10 -10 m

Dislocation Density

None

CLTE

(2~9)×10 -6 K-1

transmittance@3-5µm

50%-52.5%

Density

2.33g/cm3

Hardness, Mohs

7

Dielectric Constant for 9.37 x 109Hz

13

Melting point, °C

1414

Thermal Conductivity, W/m·K at 313 K

163

Thermal Expansion, 1/K at 293 K

2.6x10-6

Specific Heat Capacity, J(kg·°C)

712.8

Bandgap, eV

1.1

Knoop Hardness, kg/mm2

1100

Young's Modulus, Gpa

130.91

Shear Modulus, Gpa

79.92

Bulk Modulus, Gpa

101.97

Debye Temperature, K

640

Poisson's Ratio

0.28