Very rapid densification of nanometer silicon carbide powder by pulse electric current sintering

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 654-656

  Zhou, You ^a,b   Hirao, Kiyoshi ^a   Toriyama, Motohiro ^a   Tanaka, Hicfehiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; BORON CARBIDE; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DENSIFICATION; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DOPING (ADDITIVES); GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HEATING; SILICON CARBIDE; SINTERING;

PULSE ELECTRIC CURRENT SINTERING (PECS); RAPID DENSIFICATION;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0033907182     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2000.tb01249.x     Document Type: Article

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