Effect of heating rate on spark plasma sintering of a nanosized β-Si3N4-Based Powder

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1182-1190

  Lee, Ching Huan ^a   Lu, Horng Hwa ^b   Wang, Chang An ^c   Nayak, Pramoda K ^a   Huang, Jow Lay ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC GRAIN GROWTH; DENSIFICATION MECHANISMS; GRAIN COALESCENCE; GRAIN ROTATION; IN-SITU; LARGE-GRAIN; MISFIT STRAINS; NANO-SIZED; NANOSIZED GRAINS; RAPID HEATING PROCESS; RAPID-HEATING; SINTERING ADDITIVES; SINTERING PROCESS; SUBGRAINS;

COALESCENCE; ELECTRIC SPARKS; HEATING; HEATING RATE; OSTWALD RIPENING; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING;

GRAIN GROWTH;

EID: 78650225666     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.04196.x     Document Type: Article

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