Transparent aluminum, also known as aluminum oxynitride, is a transparent polycrystalline ceramic with a cubic spinel crystal structure made of nitrogen, oxygen and aluminum. It is optically ...

Although she doesn’t identify the material specifically, the material [Jo] got to handle was most likley not a metal at all, but a ceramic called aluminum oxynitride, composed of equal parts ...

A new type of transparent armor made of aluminum could one day replace glass in military vehicles. The product is called aluminum oxynitride. It is being tested by the Army and the University of ...

Known as ALON or Aluminum Oxynitride, it’s not aluminum in the metallic sense but rather an advanced aluminum-based ceramic. But it’s still pretty cool. The see-through material begins as a ...

Called aluminium oxynitride, it has a similar crystal structure to that of the magnesium aluminate. And you don't have to wait 200 years to get it, as it is now commercially available and sold ...

Specialists from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and multi-institutional collaborators have developed a technology to produce compacts from aluminum oxynitride (ALON). They've ...

As reported via a video posted to Discovery, the revolutionary ceramic alloy (officially called Aluminum Oxynitride or "ALON") is created by fusing aluminum, oxygen and nitrogen in precise ...

The presentation, titled “Sputter Deposited Aluminum Oxynitride Films for Applications as Electrically Isolating, Thermally Conductive Films,” highlighted cutting-edge developments in aluminum ...

Now there's another transparent aluminum offering being tested by the Air Force: aluminum oxynitride. It's being tested as a replacement for the multi-layered glass windows that are being used now.