ZrO₂ (Zirconium dioxide, Zirconia)

Glasses, oxides and dielectrics

3 datasets, together covering 0.1301–33 µm. Default: Wood and Nassau 1982: Cubic zirconia stabilized with yttria; n 0.361–5.14 µm.

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Datasets

Crystal

Nanoparticles

Bodurov et al. 2016: Nanoparticles; n 0.405–0.635 µm n 0.405–0.635 µm

Use it in Lightsmith

Load this data in Python, simulate in one more line

pip install lightsmith

import lightsmith as ls

# ZrO2 (Zirconium dioxide, Zirconia): Wood and Nassau 1982: Cubic zirconia stabilized with yttria; n 0.361–5.14 µm
zro2 = ls.fetch_refractiveindex("main", "ZrO2", "Wood", ref="c5c2f188e848453def5970e347399d653df2ffc2")
print(zro2.range_nm)  # (361, 5135) nm
eps = zro2.eps([633])  # complex permittivity

Downloads the original record once (pinned to the imported snapshot) and caches it.

import json, urllib.request
import lightsmith as ls

url = "https://materials.lightsmith.dev/v1/datasets/ds_c699a5ca9bff/lightsmith"
zro2 = ls.Tabulated.model_validate(json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(url)))
print(zro2.source)  # citation and provenance travel with the data

Any dataset here, as the library's Tabulated material (zro2/wood-nassau-1982).

# ... load zro2 as above, then:
sim = ls.Simulation(
    particles=[ls.Particle(shape=ls.Sphere(radius_nm=50), material=zro2)],
    medium_index=1.0,
    wavelengths=ls.WavelengthRange(start_nm=400, stop_nm=1000, num=81),
)
res = ls.solve(sim)  # exact Mie for a sphere
print(res.q_ext)     # extinction efficiency at each wavelength

Same spec runs with DDA, FDTD, BEM or T-matrix: ls.compare(sim, ["mie", "dda"]).

import json, urllib.request
import lightsmith as ls

url = "https://materials.lightsmith.dev/v1/datasets/ds_c699a5ca9bff/lightsmith?model=drude_lorentz"
zro2_dl = ls.DrudeLorentz.model_validate(json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(url)))

A dispersive Drude–Lorentz model for time-domain solvers.

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About ZrO2 (Zirconium dioxide, Zirconia)

Other names: Zirconium dioxide, Zirconia, Yttria-stabilized zirconia, YSZ, ZrO₂-Y₂O₃, Zirconium dioxide - Yttrium oxide, ZrO2-Y2O3 (Yttria-stabilized zirconia, YSZ)

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OTHER - miscellaneous materials › ZrO2-Y2O3 (Yttria-stabilized zirconia, YSZ)

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