Spark plasma sintering of silver nanopowder

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6799, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ng, H B ^a   Shearwood, C ^a   White, T J ^b   Yu, L G ^a   Khor, K A ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Grain growth; Hardness; Nanocrystalline materials; Nanopowder; Silver; Sintering; Twinning

Indexed keywords

CONSOLIDATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GRAIN GROWTH; HARDNESS; SILVER; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; TWINNING;

ELECTRO-EXPLOSION METHOD; NANOPOWDER;

NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 43349104793     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.759383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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