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MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS
Volume 59, Issue 10, Pages 1610-1615Publisher
JAPAN INST METALS
DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.M2018055
Keywords
densification; grain growth; polycrystalline Al2O3; two-step pulsed electric current sintering
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In this study, transparent polycrystalline Al2O3 with a diameter of 30mm was fabricated by two-step pulsed electric current sintering (TS-PECS) at two different heating rates, 100 and 10 degrees C/min. The overall TS-PECS process was divided into parts and was stopped at various positions along the timeline. The relative density and grain size of the Al2O3 samples obtained from each stop were evaluated. In general, the results show that the heating rate changed the densification rate in each sintering stage but did not strongly affect the final density. However, it dramatically influenced the grain growth of Al2O3. With the higher heating rate, the dynamic grain growth was assumed to enhance the grain growth rate because of the high concentration of defects, especially in the last stage of sintering. Especially, a grain size refinement phenomena was observed during the sintering process of polycrystalline Al2O3 for the first time.
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