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Transparent Alumina with Submicrometer Grains by Float Packing and Sintering
Author(s) -
Godlinski Dirk,
Kuntz Meinhard,
Grathwohl Georg
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2002.tb00479.x
Subject(s) - materials science , sintering , ceramic , transmittance , crystallite , grain size , particle size , particle size distribution , composite material , transparent ceramics , suspension (topology) , mineralogy , metallurgy , chemical engineering , optoelectronics , chemistry , mathematics , homotopy , pure mathematics , engineering
Commercially available α‐alumina powder with high‐purity, submicrometer particle size and narrow particle‐size distribution is used as starting material to prepare dense ceramic parts with transparent properties. The powder is dispersed and stabilized in a water‐based suspension. Controlled consolidation and drying by float packing leads to homogeneous green compacts, which can be densified without additives by sintering in air at 1275°C to transparency, while the mean grain size remains at 0.4 μm. The in‐line transmittance for wavelengths of 300–450 nm is comparable to commercial polycrystalline alumina tubes for lighting technologies, whose grain sizes are larger by a factor of 40.