Electrically conductive in situ formed nano-Si 3N 4/SiC/TiC xN 1-x ceramic composite consolidated by Pulse Electric Current Sintering (PECS)

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 66-70

  Duan, Ren Guan ^a   Garay, Javier E ^a   Kuntz, Joshua D ^a   Mukherjee, Amiya K ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS POLYMERS; NANOCRYSTALLINE; PULSE ELECTRIC CURRENT SINTERING (PECS); REACTIVE-CONSOLIDATION;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; SILICON CARBIDE; SINTERING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 27644480913     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2004.00044.x     Document Type: Article

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