Powder metallurgical silver-metal oxide electrical contacts by an electroless coating process

Advanced Powder Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-130

  Joshi, P B ^a   Patel, R H ^a   Krishnan, Prabha S ^a   Gadgeel, V L ^a   Kaushik, V K ^b   Ramakrishnan, P ^c  

^a M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

^b Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPACTION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTROLESS PLATING; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; HARDNESS; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; MICROSTRUCTURE; OXIDES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER POWDER METALLURGY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

SILVER METAL OXIDE ELECTRICAL CONTACTS;

ELECTRIC CONTACTS;

EID: 0029707091     PISSN: 09218831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8831(08)60507-5     Document Type: Article

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