Effect of silica on the reactive sintering of polycrystalline Nd:YAG ceramics

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 406-413

  Maître, Alexandre ^a,c   Sallé, Christian ^a   Boulesteix, R ^a   Baumard, Jean François ^a,c   Rabinovitch, Yoël ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^b Bâtiment ESTER ^*  (France)

^c AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALL MILLING; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; NEODYMIUM; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SILICA; SINTERING; VOLUME FRACTION;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 38849104305     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2007.02168.x     Document Type: Article

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