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The results of studying the state of the surface of sapphire crystals by a complex of methods in different stages of crystal treatment are considered by an example of preparing sapphire substrates with a supersmooth surface. The possibility of purposefully forming regular micro- and nanoreliefs and thin transition layers using thermal and thermochemical impacts are considered. The advantages of sapphire substrates with a modified surface for forming heteroepitaxial CdTe and ZnO semiconductor films and ordered ensembles of gold nanoparticles are described. The results of the experiments on the application of crystalline sapphire as a material for X-ray optical elements are reported. These elements include total external reflection mirrors and substrates for multilayer mirrors, output windows for synchrotron radiation, and monochromators working in the reflection geometry in X-ray spectrometers. In the latter case, the problems of the defect structure of bulk crystals sapphire and the choice of a method for growing sapphire crystals of the highest structural quality are considered.
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Original Russian Text © A.E. Muslimov, V.E. Asadchikov, A.V. Butashin, V.P. Vlasov, A.N. Deryabin, B.S. Roshchin, S.N. Sulyanov, V.M. Kanevsky, 2016, published in Kristallografiya, 2016, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp. 703–717.
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Muslimov, A.E., Asadchikov, V.E., Butashin, A.V. et al. Supersmooth and modified surface of sapphire crystals: Formation, characterization, and applications in nanotechnologies. Crystallogr. Rep. 61, 730–743 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377451605014X
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