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wide-band-gap insulator

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    In optical ceramics: Optical and infrared windows

    …pure state, most ceramics are wide-band-gap insulators. This means that there is a large gap of forbidden states between the energy of the highest filled electron levels and the energy of the next highest unoccupied level. If this band gap is larger than optical light energies, these ceramics will be…

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