Аннтотация

© 2018 IEEE. We have proposed novel medical instruments based on sapphire shaped crystals fabricated using the edge-defined film-fed growth (EFG) or related techniques. Due to the favorable combination of the unique properties of sapphire (high thermal strength and mechanical hardness, impressive melting point and chemical resistance, transparency in a wide spectral range) the developed instruments could help to solve numerous important problems of medical diagnosis, therapy, and surgery.