Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5438143 | Ceramics International | 2017 | 27 Pages |
Abstract
Nanocrystalline alumina powder with an average crystallite size of â¤50 nm has been consolidated by spark plasma sintering (SPS) and hot pressing (HP) with a view to achieving dense, fine grained alumina bodies that display transparency. When as-synthesised powder was densified directly, excessive grain growth resulted from both the SPS and HP techniques and hence a large final grain size was observed. Attempts to improve the uniformity of the green microstructure prior to densification were unsuccessful when spray freeze dried granules were used, whether pre-pressed into a compact or not. The use of 53% dense slip cast green compacts, however, enabled final density of ~99.96% and a mean grain size of ~0.32 µm to be achieved when SPS conditions of 1200 °C and 500 MPa were applied for 20 min. These samples offered in-line transmittance values of up to ~80% and microhardness values of 22 GPa.
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Authors
Shaghayegh Ghanizadeh, Salvatore Grasso, Prabhu Ramanujam, Bala Vaidhyanathan, Jon Binner, Peter Brown, Judah Goldwasser,