Pressureless sintering of Si3N4 ceramic using AlN and rare-earth oxides

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1256-1262

  Huang, Zhen Kun ^a   Rosenflanz, Anatoly ^a,b   Chen, I Wei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; SINTERING; SOLID SOLUTIONS;

PRESSURELESS SINTERING; RARE EARTH OXIDES;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0031139518     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1997.tb02972.x     Document Type: Article

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