Microstructural Evolution in Liquid-Phase-Sintered SiC: Part I, Effect of Starting Powder

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1578-1584

  Xu, Huiwen ^a   Bhatia, Tania ^a   Deshpande, Swarnima A ^a   Padture, Nitin P ^a   Ortiz, Angel L ^b   Cumbrera, Francisco L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; ANISOTROPY; ASPECT RATIO; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POWDERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINTERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

COARSENING; LIQUID PHASE SINTERED SILICON CARBIDE; MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 0035413132     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2001.tb00880.x     Document Type: Article

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