Fabrication of Silicon Nitride-Silicon Oxynitride in-situ Composites

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 527-533

  Emoto, Hideyuki ^a,b   Mitomo, Mamoru ^a   Wang, Chong Min ^a   Hirosturu, Hideki ^b   Inaba, Tohru ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b DENKA COMPANY LIMITED   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ANNEALING; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; FABRICATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN GROWTH; HOT PRESSING; NUCLEATION; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SILICON NITRIDE; SINTERING;

CORDIERITE; FINE GRAINED CERAMICS; SILICON OXYNITRIDE; SINTERING ADDITIVES;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 0032074726     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-2219(97)00155-6     Document Type: Article

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