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Guide To Optical Quartz Crystal: Left Handed Right Handed

Quartz exists in both right-handed and left-handed forms, with right-handed being most common. There are several ways to determine the handedness, such as using polarized light and film or spectacles with quarter-wave plates to see patterns rotate clockwise for right-handed quartz and counterclockwise for left-handed quartz. For electronics, synthetic quartz is grown as z-bars and cut in various orientations like AT-cut and BT-cut, which are most common. The document provides details on the crystal structure and cutting orientations of quartz.

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Guide To Optical Quartz Crystal: Left Handed Right Handed

Quartz exists in both right-handed and left-handed forms, with right-handed being most common. There are several ways to determine the handedness, such as using polarized light and film or spectacles with quarter-wave plates to see patterns rotate clockwise for right-handed quartz and counterclockwise for left-handed quartz. For electronics, synthetic quartz is grown as z-bars and cut in various orientations like AT-cut and BT-cut, which are most common. The document provides details on the crystal structure and cutting orientations of quartz.

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GUIDE TO OPTICAL QUARTZ CRYSTAL

Left Handed Right Handed


Quartz is normally Right Handed and exhibits
natural facets as shown.
Left Handed Quartz is available by special
request.
c-pinacoid m-prismatic
s-trigonal pyramid
r-positive rhombohedron
z-negative rhombohedron
x-trigonal trapezohedron
Cutting directions can be referred to in
confusing and conflicting ways. These are
equivalents:
C-plane (0, 0, 0,1) Z-cut
A-plane (1,1,-2, 0) Y-cut
M-plane (1,-1,0, 0) X-cut
The C-axis ≡ Z-axis

For electronics synthetic crystal is grown as z-bars


and there are dozens of different cuts of which
AT-cut and BT-cut are the most common. Crystran
does not serve this market.

Quartz exists in Right-Handed and Left-Handed forms which determine how the crystal rotates the plane of polarised
light. There are several ways of testing for this, but a good way is to use a polarising screen with a piece of cross-
polarising film. Inserting the quartz will require the film to be turned clockwise (RH quartz) or anti-clockwise (LH
quartz) to restore the extinction or the isogyre. Alternatively, with quartz cut with the C-axis perpendicular to the
surface, use polarising spectacles with quarter-wave plates to see the patterns as shown. With LH quartz the rings
appear to spin out from the middle in an anti-clockwise direction. In normal RH quartz, in a clockwise direction.

Left Handed Quartz - Unusual Right Handed Quartz - Normal

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