P. E. Miller

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the distribution and characteristics of surface cracking formed during standard grinding processes on fused silica glass and found that only a small fraction of the abrasive particles are being mechanically loaded and causing fracture, and it is likely the larger particles in the abrasives particle size distribution that bear the higher loads.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured surface cracking (i.e., sub-surface damage or SSD) formed during standard grinding processes on fused silica glass using a surface taper polishing technique.

TL;DR: The National Ignition Facility (NIF) as discussed by the authors was designed and built to meet the challenges for study of high energy-density physics and inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosi...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and applied a model to interpret the depth and crack length distributions of subsurface surface damage in terms of key variables including abrasive size and load.

TL;DR: It is shown that a variety of nominally transparent materials in trace quantities can act as surface damage precursors and can reduce damage density in silica at high fluence by more than 100 times while shifting the fluence onset of observable damage by about 7 J/cm(2).