Crystalline substance with tailored angle between surfaces

摘要

A crystalline manufacture and process for creating the same are disclosed wherein an end surface is etched along an etch-resistant plane in the crystalline structure of substance in which the top and bottom surfaces have been sliced off-axis from the crystal plane at a specified angle. The end surface may form a blade edge of a blade if the end surface is etched all the way from the top surface to the bottom surface. This results in a linear blade edge wherein the angle between the blade edge and the bottom surface may be chosen by selecting the off-axis orientation of the crystalline substance from which the manufacture is created.