Comparative study of microwave sintering of zinc oxide at 2.45, 30, and 83 GHz

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1493-1501

  Birnboim, Amikam ^a   Gershon, David ^a   Calame, Jeffery ^a   Birman, Amnon ^a   Carmel, Yuval ^a   Rodgers, John ^a   Levush, Baruch ^a   Bykov, Yurii V ^b   Eremeev, A G ^b   Holoptsev, V V ^b   Semenov, Vladimir E ^b   Dadon, David ^c   Martin, Peter L ^c,e   Rosen, Moshe ^c,e   Hutcheon, Ron ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d CANADIAN NUCLEAR LABORATORIES   (Canada)

^e AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HEAT LOSSES; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROWAVE HEATING; POWDERS; SINTERING; SURFACE PHENOMENA; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

MICROWAVE SINTERING;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 0032098202     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1998.tb02508.x     Document Type: Review

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