Low temperature sintering of nanocrystalline zinc oxide: Effect of heating rate achieved by field assisted sintering/spark plasma sintering

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2451-2457

  Schwarz, Sebastian ^a   Thron, Andrew M ^b   Rufner, Jorgen ^b   Van Benthem, Klaus ^b   Guillon, Olivier ^a,c  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION KINETICS; FIELD ASSISTED SINTERING TECHNIQUES; HARDNESS MEASUREMENT; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; LOW-TEMPERATURE SINTERING; NANOCRYSTALLINES; PARTICLE REARRANGEMENT; PLASMA SINTERING; RELATIVE DENSITY; RESIDUAL WATERS;

HEATING; HEATING RATE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

SINTERING;

EID: 84864685662     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2012.05205.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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