Microwave sintering and grain growth behavior of nano-grained BaTiO3 materials
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL, 38, S117-S120
Journal
Ceramics International
Pages
S117-S120
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Chen, Cheng-Sao
Chen, Pin-Yi
Chou, Chen-Chia
Chen, Chang-Shun
Abstract
In this paper, we investigated the effect of microwave sintering parameters on the development of the microstructure of nano-grained BaTiO 3 materials co-doped with Y and Mg species. It is observed that the materials can not only be sintered densely at a lower temperature (1150°C) and a shorter soaking time (20 min), but also the grain growth can be suppressed by 2.45 GHz microwave heating process. However, the grain growth exhibits a unique tendency in some processing conditions such as microwave sintering for longer intervals (≧60 min) or at higher temperatures (1200°C). The grain growth behavior after densification was investigated in terms of the phenomenological kinetics, and the activation energy for grain growth using microwave sintering (59.4 kJ/mol) is considerably less than that of the conventionally sintered ones (96.0 kJ/mol), which indicates that microwave sintering process can accelerate the densification rate of the BaTiO 3 materials comparing with the conventional sintering process. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l.
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