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Millisecond photonic sintering of iron oxide doped alumina ceramic coatings

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82896-9

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  1. European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie Grant [754364]
  2. ETH Board

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In this study, alumina particles were sintered using millisecond flash lamp irradiation with extreme heating rates. The low visible light absorption of alumina was resolved by adding colored alpha -Fe2O3 nanoparticles, which initiated grain growth during sintering. This photonic sintering approach may be extended to other refractory ceramics with low absorption in the visible light range.
The sintering of alumina (Al2O3) traditionally occurs at high temperatures (up to ca. 1700 degrees C) and in significantly long times (up to several hours), which are required for the consolidation of the material by diffusion processes. Here we investigate the photonic sintering of alumina particles using millisecond flash lamp irradiation with extreme heating rates up to 10(8) K/min. The limitation of the low visible light absorption of alumina is resolved by adding colored alpha -Fe2O3 nanoparticles, which initiated the grain growth during sintering. After the millisecond-long light pulses from a xenon flash lamp, a bimodal mixture of alpha -Al2O3 precursor particles was sintered and iron segregation at the grain boundaries was observed. The proposed photonic sintering approach based on doping with colored centers may be extended to other refractory ceramics with low absorption in the visible light range once appropriate high-absorbing dopants are identified.

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