ÿþ<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Saint-Gobain Crystals - Home</title> <meta name="Title" content="Saint-Gobain Crystals | optimizing unique properties of materials " /> <meta name="Keywords" lang="en-us" content="Saint-Gobain,Quartz,Photonic Materials,Process Materials,Scintillation,Semiconductor,Semi-conductor,Homeland Security,optical fiber,aerospace,Defense,thermal processing,etch,wafer processing,Yttria,plasma,CVD,Crystar,crucibles, synthetic silica, ingots,sapphire substrates,LED,YAG,Laser Crystals,ruby,ti:sapphire,solid state,optics,garnets,NaI,BGO,CsI,LaCl,LaBr,LYSO,LSO,Gas tubes,Geiger,scint,radiation detection" /> <meta name="description" content="Saint-Gobain Crystals uses advanced industrial processing to optimize the unique properties of materials such as purity, optical, thermal, scintillation and crystallographic" /> <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" /> <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="CSS/SG_StyleSheet.css" /> </head> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-1213766-18"; urchinTracker(); </script> <body bgcolor="#efefef" link="#000000" vlink="#999999"> <table width="937" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="ffffff"> <!-- Top left Logo --> <tr> <td> <table width="937" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="ffffff"> <tr> <td> <div class="Logo"></div> </td> <td align="right" valign="top"> <div class="HomeLinkAlgin"><a class="NonLink" href="http://www.saint-gobain.com">www.saint-gobain.com</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="Images/Banner-159-static-crystals.jpg" width="1013" height="172"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"> <table border="0" class="pagebody" width="900"> <tr> <!-- Left Navigation Item --> <td valign="top" width="120"><br /> <span class="newsTitleBold">Web sites:</span><br/> <span class="newsTitle"><a href="http://www.detectors.saint-gobain.com" target="_blank"><br/>Scintillation<br/></a></span> <span class="newsTitle"><a href="http://www.photonic.saint-gobain.com" target="_blank"><br/>Photonics<br/></a></span> <span class="newsTitle"><a href="Aboutus.html"><br/>About Us</a></span> </td> <!-- Right Content Item --> <td> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" border="0" class="pagebody"> <tr class="pagebody"> <td valign="top" class="pagebody"><br /> <p class="TextJustify">Saint-Gobain is a global leader in the manufacture and development of engineered materials such as glass, insulation, reinforcements, containers, building materials, ceramics and plastics. 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