ForewordExpected Roles of NGF under the Current Glass Industry Environment ------- p.1
Keiichi Yumoto
Feature Articles: Advanced processing technique1) Development of the strengthened glass and its applications ------- p.3
Madoka Ono
2) Atomically Controlled Planarization by Catalyst Feferred Etching Method ------- p.7
Kazuto Yamauchi
3) Precision damege-free figuring of functional materials by plasma chemical vaporization machining ------- p.16
Kazuya Yamamura
4) 'TOP Cleave' technology of high speed glass cutting with high power ultra short pulsed laser in several industries ------- p.21
Yosuke Nakamura
New Glass Research TopicsFormation of metallic cation-oxygen network for anomalous thermal expansion coefficients in Zinc Phosphate glass ------- p.25
Yohei Onodera etc.
Lectures For Newcomer And LeadersLight scattering in glasses -Origin of the Rayleigh scattering- ------- p.30
Kazuya Saito
Introduce Research InstituteExperiences of neutron diffraction experiments at ISIS pulsed neutron source ------- p.35
Yohei Onodera
Topics of Meeting on Glass"1) Report on 12th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology (PACRIM12), including Glass & Optical Materials Division Meeting (GOMD2017)" ------- p.40
Shintaro Mizuno
2) Report on the 127th Tour New Glass Forum young conference ------- p.43
Go Kawade
3) Report on the 15th Meeting of the Japanese Sol?Gel Society ------- p.46
George Hasegawa
4) A report on the 49th summer forum for young scientists and engineers on glass studies ------- p.49
Kei Tsunoda
5) Report on 30th Fall Meeting of The Ceramic Society of Japan ------- p.52
Aya Nakamura
Introduction of New Glass Products & Production TechnologyDevelopment of ultra-thinner glass paper 'SGP' (Super Glass Paper) ------- p.55
Masamichi Kezuka
Relative OrganizationReport on Memorial Lecture of NGF's 7th General Meeting ------- p.58
Masaki Kitaoka
History of research activitiesHeretic? I don't mind. 5. Conductive insulator ------- p.63
Hiroshi Kawazoe
ColumnTrivia of the glass bottle industry ------- p.67
Shigeki Yoshinaga