A crystalline Si3N4/amorphous Si3N4 composite

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 395-400

  Reimanis, Ivar E ^a,b   Petrovic, John J ^a   Suematsu, Hisayuki ^a,c   Mitchell, Terrence E ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRACK INITIATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; HARDNESS; HEAT TREATMENT; MICROCRACKS; SILICON NITRIDE; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

INDENTATION FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; VICKERS HARDNESS;

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 0030086131     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1996.tb08134.x     Document Type: Article

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