Back Cover: Phys. Status Solidi C 12/2012

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physica status solidi cVolume 9, Issue 12 Back CoverFree Access Back Cover: Phys. Status Solidi C 12/2012 First published: 14 December 2012 https://doi.org/10.1002/pssc.201290022AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Containerless processing is a suitable technique for vitrification of materials with low glass-forming ability, because it suppresses inhomogeneous nucleation from the container wall and promotes deep undercooling in molten materials. Therefore, materials even without a network former oxide can be vitrified using containerless processing. In their paper on pp. 2424–2427, Atsunobu Masuno et al. report the glass formation in the LaO3/2–TiO2–MOx ternary system (M = Ga, Y, Gd, Hf, W, Zn, Ge, Nb, Ta, Bi, and Ba) by an aerodynamic levitation furnace. These TiO2-based glasses exhibit a high refractive index around 2.3 and low wavelength dispersion with a large Abbe number over 20. It was found that the substitution of GdO3/2 for LaO3/2 components was most effective for the increase of the Abbe number with keeping a high refractive index. These results are useful for glass composition design toward future innovative optical applications in the visible region. The illustration shows schematically an aerodynamic levitation furnace, surrounded by a series of pictures of the cooling and glass formation process of the levitated titanate melt. Volume9, Issue12Special Issue: Fifth International Conference on Optical, Optoelectronic and Photonic Materials and Applications (ICOOPMA12), see further papers in Phys. Status Solidi A 209, No. 12 (2012)December 2012 RelatedInformation