Demonstrating low‐temperature sintering of boron carbide powders

Sintering of Zircon Powders

Spark Plasma Sintering of Commercial Zirconium Carbide Powders: Densification Behavior and Mechanical Properties

Commercial zirconium carbide (ZrC) powder is consolidated by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS). Processing temperatures range from 1650 to 2100 °C. Specimens with various density levels are obtained when performing single-die SPS at different temperatures. Besides the single-die tooling setup, a double-die tooling setup is employed to largely increase the actual applied pressure to achieve higher de...

Sintering of cubic boron nitride under high pressures and temperatures in the presence of boron carbide as the binding material

Sintering of cubic boron nitride (cBN) was carried out by subjecting fine powders of cBN to high pressures and temperatures (P = 50-60 kb, T = 1200-1500°C ) in the presence of boron carbide as the main binding material together with a small amount of aluminium nitride. The composites were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, FTIR, Raman Spectroscopy and microhardnes...

Boron carbide/n-silicon carbide heterojunction diodes

Sintering of Fine Oxide Powders: II, Sintering Mechanisms

Conventional and new sintering mechanisms have been porous compacts is well-known in the ceramic literature. However, several reports have been presented recently that investigated using fine powders of CeO2 and Y2O3 of excellent sinterability. We have verified the validity of Herring’s show that particle/grain size can remain essentially constant up to a density of 92%, and such a resistance t...