Highly transparent pure alumina fabricated by high-pressure spark plasma sintering

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2460-2462

  Grasso, Salvatore ^a,b   Kim, Byung Nam ^b   Hu, Chunfeng ^b   Maizza, Giovanni ^c   Sakka, Yoshio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PRESSURE; AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; FULL DENSE; HIGH PRESSURE; IN-LINE; LOW TEMPERATURES;

ELECTRIC SPARKS; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING;

SINTERED ALUMINA;

EID: 77956378638     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.03811.x     Document Type: Article

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