Effect of porosity and grain size on the microwave dielectric properties of sintered alumina

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1885-1888

  Penn, Stuart J ^a   Alford, Neil McN ^a,b   Templeton, Alan ^a   Wang, Xiaoru ^a   Xu, Meishing ^a   Reece, Michael ^a,c   Schrapel, Kevin ^a,c  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMPURITIES; MICROCRACKS; PERMITTIVITY; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; POROSITY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SINTERING;

MICROWAVE DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; MIXTURE MODEL; PORE VOLUME; PURITY;

ALUMINA;

EID: 0031190431     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1997.tb03066.x     Document Type: Article

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