Transparent tetragonal yttria-stabilized zirconia ceramics: Influence of scattering caused by birefringence

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1850-1858

  Klimke, Jens ^a   Trunec, Martin ^b   Krell, Andreas ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GRAIN SIZE; IN-LINE; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; IR WAVELENGTHS; MEAN-GRAIN SIZE; MIE THEORY; OPTICAL BIREFRINGENCE; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH APPROXIMATION; SCATTERING MODEL; SMALL PARTICLE SIZE; TETRAGONAL ZIRCONIA; VISIBLE LIGHT; ZIRCONIA CERAMIC;

BIREFRINGENCE; CERAMIC MATERIALS; HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SCATTERING; SINTERING; YTTRIA STABILIZED ZIRCONIA; ZIRCONIA; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

EID: 79958177986     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.04322.x     Document Type: Article

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