GT Advanced Technologies Inc., GTAT, today announced that its
subsidiary, GT Crystal Systems, has received an order for a large, low
absorption, optical sapphire blank for the Large-Scale Cryogenic Gravitational
Wave Telescope program located in Japan. The LCGT will use the sapphire
optic to measure changes in gravitational waves resulting from cosmic events.
The LCGT is an extremely sensitive instrument that requires sapphire that
contains an almost perfect crystalline structure, without bubbles or
inclusions, throughout the optic
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