Electric field induced grain refining in Al2O3 single crystal particles

  • Jinling Liu
  • , Yan Gao
  • , Dianguang Liu*
  • , Yiguang Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The pre-soaking procedure was developed to identify the grain refining effects on Al2O3 ceramic during spark plasma sintering (SPS). The results showed the micrometer-size Al2O3 single crystal particles refined by the thermo-electric-mechanical mechanism. The large sized single crystal particles have more obvious grain refining and show more refined spots. A time dependent grain refining process has been identified after the powders were soaked longer at temperatures below the grain growth levels. Our work demonstrates a possible method to make nanostructured ceramic using SPS with pre-soaking process.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)13414-13418
Number of pages5
JournalCeramics International
Volume44
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • AlO
  • Electric field
  • Grain refining
  • SPS
  • Soaking

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