Effect of initial microstructure on final intergranular phase distribution in liquid-phase-sintered ceramics

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 183-189

  Ackler, Harold D ^a,b,c   Chiang, Yet Ming ^a,c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001109303     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1999.tb01739.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. D. R. Clarke, "On the Equilibrium Thickness of Intergranular Glass Phases in Ceramic Materials," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 70 [1] 15-22 (1987).
2. H.-J. Kleebe, M. K. Cinibulk, R. M. Cannon, and M. Rühle, "Statistical Analysis of the Intergranular Film Thickness in Silicon Nitride Ceramics," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 76 [8] 1969-77 (1993).
3. Y.-M. Chiang, L. A. Silverman, R. H. French, and R. M. Cannon, "Thin Glass Film between Ultrafine Conductor Particles in Thick-Film Resistors," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 77 [5] 1143-52 (1994).
4. 3-Doped ZnO"; pp. 131-47 in Ceramic Microstructures '96. Edited by A. P. Tomsia and A. M. Glaeser. Plenum Press, New York, 1997.
5. H. Wang and Y.-M. Chiang, "Thermodynamic Stability of Intergranular Amorphous Films in Bismuth-Doped Zinc Oxide," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 81 [1] 89-96 (1998).
6. 4," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 56 [10] 518-22 (1973).
7. 4 as a Function of the Initial α-Phase Content," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 62 [7-8] 428-30 (1979).
8. G. Ziegler, J. Heinrich, and G. Wötting, "Review: Relationships between Processing, Microstructure, and Properties of Dense and Reaction-Bonded Silicon Nitride," J. Mater. Sci., 22, 3041-86 (1987).
9. Y. Tajima, "Development of High Performance Silicon Nitride Ceramics and Their Applications"; pp. 189-96 in Silicon Nitride Ceramics-Scientific and Technological Advances, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Vol. 287. Edited by I-W. Chen, P. F. Becher, M. Mitomo, G. Petzow, and T.-S Yen, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993.
10. 4 Based Ceramics"; ibid, pp. 3-14.
11. H. D. Ackler and Y.-M. Chiang, "Thin Intergranular Films in Ceramics: Thermodynamic Calculations and Model Experiments in the System Titania-Silica"; see Ref. 4, pp. 149-60.
12. H. D. Ackler, "Thermodynamic Calculations and Model Experiments on Thin Intergranular Amorphous Films in Ceramics"; Ph.D. Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Feb. 1997.
13. R. H. French, R. M. Cannon, L. K. DeNoyer, and Y.-M. Chiang, "Full Spectral Calculation of Non-Retarded Hamaker Constants for Ceramic Systems from Interband Transition Strengths," Solid State Ionics, 75, 13-33 (1995).
14. H. D. Ackler, R. H. French, and Y.-M. Chiang, "Comparisons of Hamaker Constants for Ceramic Systems with Intervening Vacuum or Water: From Force Laws and Physical Properties," J. Colloid Interface Sci., 179, 460-69 (1996).
15. D. R. Clarke, T. M. Shaw, A. P. Philipse, and R. G. Horn, "Possible Electrical Double-Layer Contribution to the Equilibrium Thickness of Intergranular Glass Films in Polycrystalline Ceramics," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 76 [5] 1201-204 (1993).
16. T. M. Shaw and P. R. Duncombe, "Forces between Aluminum Oxide Grains in a Silicate Melt and Their Effect on Grain Boundary Wettine," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 74 [10] 2495-505 (1991).
17. P. L. Flaitz and J. A. Pask, "Penetration of Polycrystalline Alumina by Glass at High Temperatures," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 70 [7] 449-55 (1987).
18. M. D. Sacks, N. Bozkurt, and G.W. Schieffele, "Fabrication of Mullite and Mullite-Matrix Composites by Transient Viscous Sintering of Composite Powders," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 74 [10] 2428-37 (1991).
19. J. N. Israelachvili, Intermolecular and Surface Forces; 2nd Ed. Academic Press, London, U.K., 1992.
20. F. F. Lange, "Liquid-Phase Sintering: Are Liquids Squeezed Out from Between Compressed Particles?," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 65 [2] C-23 (1982).
21. R. C. DeVries, R. Roy, and E. F. Osborn, Trans. Br. Ceram, Soc., S3 [9] 531 (1954). (Reprinted as Fig. 113 in Phase Diagrams for Ceramists. Edited by E. M. Levin, C. R. Robbins, and H. F. McMurdie. American Ceramic Society, Columbus, OH, 1964.)
22. R. C. DeVries, R. Roy, and E. F. Osborn, Trans. Br. Ceram, Soc., S3 [9] 531 (1954). (Reprinted as Fig. 113 in Phase Diagrams for Ceramists. Edited by E. M. Levin, C. R. Robbins, and H. F. McMurdie. American Ceramic Society, Columbus, OH, 1964.)