Kinetics of the amorphous → γ → α transformations in aluminum oxide: Effect of crystallographic orientation

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-66

  Simpson, Todd W ^a   Wen, Qingzhe ^b   Yu, Ning ^c   Clarke, David R ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^d AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ALUMINA; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; FILMS; REACTION KINETICS; SAPPHIRE;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATION; TIME RESOLVED REFLECTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 0031650662     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1998.tb02296.x     Document Type: Article

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