透明陶瓷——无机材料研究与发展重要方向之一

透明陶瓷是在纳米材料科学与技术和先进陶瓷制备科学发展的基础上，集结构与功能一体化于一身的重要材料，它将为国民经济各个领域的发展和国防工业中高科技项目的发展提供关键材料.同时陶瓷从传统不透明→半透明→接近完全透明涉及到大量基础科学问题，尤其是材料的微结构（包括气孔、晶界、晶粒尺寸、形貌等等）对光物理的影响还不十分清楚，因此作为无机材料研究与发展的重要方向之一，需要化学、物理、材料、激光等各个学科领域的共同努力.本文着重介绍透明陶瓷的研究进展.

Transparent Ceramics:One of the Most Important Field of Research and Development of Inorganic Materials

Transparent ceramics is one of the most important materials with combined properties of structural and functional ceramics. The development of transparent ceramics is based on the research and development of nano sciences and technology, and of advanced ceramic processing sciences and technology. It will be the key materials for national economic development and defense necessary with high technology needed. At the same time, the process of ceramics from traditional opaque to translucent and to transparent will refer to many basic science issues, especially, the relationship between microstructure (including pores, grain boundary, grain size, morphology and so on) and photophysical properties of materials is still not clear. Therefore, as one of the main developing field of inorganic materials, the development of transparent ceramics needs joint efforts from chemistry, physics, laser, and material scientists together. The current advance of transparent ceramics is reviewed in this paper.