Abstract
This paper presents new powerful characterization tools for ceramic and hybrid materials based on optical microscopy. Specimens are made transparent by thinning or the immersion liquid and the structure is observed in transmission mode. The tools can reveal detrimental defects, which are characteristically very few in number but large in size. Comfocal laser scanning fluorescent microscopy and infrared microscopy are also applied to extend the potential of the tool.
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