Impurity-Dependent Morphology and Grain Growth in Liquid-Phase-Sintered Alumina

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1620-1626

  Goswami, Amiya P ^a,c   Roy, Sukumar ^a   Mitra, Manoj K ^b   Das, Gopes C ^b  

^a BHARAT HEAVY ELECTRICALS LIMITED   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Jaya Shree Insulators   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FLUORESCENCE; GRAIN GROWTH; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTATION; SINTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

LIQUID PHASE SINTERED ALUMINA; PLATELET MORPHOLOGY; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; X RAY SEDIMENTATION;

ALUMINA;

EID: 0035413108     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2001.tb00886.x     Document Type: Article

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