Substitution of Y2O3 by a rare earth oxide mixture as sintering additive of Si3N4 ceramics

Materials Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-42

  Strecker, Kurt ^a   Gonzaga, Reinaldo ^a   Ribeiro, Sebastião ^a   Hoffmann, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; OXIDES; SINTERING; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

LIQUID PHASE SINTERING; YTTRIUM OXIDES;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0033721670     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-577X(00)00071-9     Document Type: Article

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