A. Ladice at Western Electric’s pilot plant for synthetic quartz production, circa 1959. Source: Public Domain But then along came World War II, and the demand for natural quartz crystals exploded.

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The new proof-of-concept technology uses synthetic quartz crystals to trap solar energy at temperatures over 1,000C, demonstrating its potential to provide clean energy for carbon-intensive ...

We realize highly reliable and high quality optical components through “high quality quartz crystal materials” using highpurity synthetic quartz crystals grown in-house, “highly reliable optical thin ...