Full sintering of powdered-metal bodies in a microwave field

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6737, 1999, Pages 668-670

  Roy, Rustum ^a   Agrawal, Dinesh ^a   Cheng, Jiplng ^a   Gedevanlshvili, Shalva ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MICROWAVES; SINTERING;

MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES;

POWDER METALS;

METAL; METAL DERIVATIVE; OXIDE;

MICROWAVE RADIATION; POWDER METALLURGY; SINTER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CERAMICS; ELECTRIC FIELD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0033578009     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21390     Document Type: Article

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