• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.361-365
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• 1984

This study has been carried out to sinter silicon nitride with additives and to show the effect of surface finishments on its strength and Weibull modulus which are two most important factors for its applications into structural ceramics. Silicon nitride was sintered with the additions of $Al_2O_3$ and $Y_2O_3$ under pressureless cond-ition. The optimum properties were obtained by sintering at 1, 75$0^{\circ}C$ for 3hrs under $N_2$ atmosphere and the strength showed 6, 500kg/$cm^2$ at room temperature and 3, 300kg/$cm^2$ at 120$0^{\circ}C$. The effects of surface treatment on the strength of sintered $Si_3N_4$ were studied and the results showed that fine surface treatment increased the strength by up to 50% The Weibull analysis showed that its modulus was increased with increasing fineness of surface finishments. It was concluded that the mechanical properties of sintered silicon nitride could be improved by fine surface grinding which implied the brittle-fracture nature of sintered silicon nitride.

• The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.35-39
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• 1995

Yttrium aluminum garnet(YAG) powders were synthesized by spray-drying of the hydroxides coprecipitated from a mixture of aqueous solutions of $Al(NO_3)_3.9H_2O \;and\; Y(NO_3)_3.6H_2O$ Phase formation in the powders during heat treatments and their sintering charactristics were investigated. In the powder obtained by washing the hydroxides before spray-drying, a metastable yttrium aluminum hexagonal (YAH) phase was first crystallized and then transformed into YAG as temperature was increased. The formation of YAH was attributed to a deviation in compositions of the particles from the starting composition of YAG. However, the powder prepared without washing step contained a stable yttrium aluminum monoclinic(YAM) phase in addition to YAG due to a large deviation from the starting composition. A powder compact of a single phase YAG was pressureless-sintered for 4 hrs at $1700^{\circ}C$ and the density was 93% of the theoretical density.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.380-387
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• 2001

140$0^{\circ}C$ 환원 분위기(질소-수소) 조건에서 열처리하여 반도성 SrTiO$_3$하소분말을 제조하였다. 하소분말을 이용하여 135$0^{\circ}C$에서 2시간동안 상압 소결하여 소결체를 제조하였으며, 이때 소결 분위기에 따른 소결체 입계의 전기적 특성을 고찰하였다. 이들 소결체는 전형적인 바리스터 특성을 나타내었으며, 특히 소결 분위기를 질소-수소로부터 공기로 변화시킴에 따라서 소결체의 문턱 전압, 입계 비저항 그리고 입계 전위 장벽은 430V/cm, 10MΩ.cm 그리고 2.0$\times$$10^{-3}$eV로부터 1000V/cm 이상, 240 MΩ.m 그리고 1.1eV로 변하였다.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.288-293
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• 2004

The application concept of using a fail safety filter on the filtering system is to prevent the particle leakage when the main filter element is broken at high temperature. In this study, the metal filters were fabricated by pressureless sintering method. The mixture of stainless steel powders and filler metal binder solved in the water solutions of 5% PVA was compacted to form the cylindrical filter without pressure. The compacted filter were sintered in the vacuum sintering furnace at 120$0^{\circ}C$ for 1 hour. The metal filter(produced with powder of 640-840 ${\mu}m$ size) having more than above 50% porosity, 500${\mu}m$ pore size, and permeability of 7.3${\times}$10$^{-11}$m$^{2}$ plugged within 2.5 minute to prevent the leakage of maximum slip particle size of less than 3${\mu}m$.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.471-479
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• 1992

AlN powder was synthesized by carbothermal reduction and nitridation using Al2(SO4)3.18H2O as the starting material. The synthesized AlN powder was fine but contained oxygen. Therefore carbonaceous material (carbon black or phenol novolac) was added teogether with the sintering aids (CaO, CaF2, CaCl2, Y2O3 and YF3). It was found that pressureless sintering at 1700~180$0^{\circ}C$ after deoxidation at 150$0^{\circ}C$ suppressed the formation of second phase (27R) and reduced the contents of lattice oxygen within AlN ceramics.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.369-382
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• 1990

ZrO2-Toughened Alumina-Ceramics(ZTA) with Cr2O3 and HfO2 as addition were synthesized by assintering method for solid solution of Al2O3/Cr2O3 and ZrO2/HfO2, and were prepared by pressureless sintering at 1$600^{\circ}C$. The effects of Cr2O3 and HfO2 on the thermal and mechanical properties, the sintering mechanism, and the wearness between theory and experiment were investigated. Among three kinds of mechanisms such as stress-induced transformation, microcracking, and crack deflection it contributed to the ZTA system with a few exceptons according to composite. We show that wearness can be estimated sufficiently by HV and KIC through theory and experiment.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.7
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• pp.1999-2003
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• 2014

Indium tin oxide ($In_2Sn_{1-x}O_{5-y}$) nanoparticles were synthesized by hydrothermal method from stable indium tin acetylacetone complexes and postannealing at $600^{\circ}C$. The absence of chlorine ions shortened the synthesis process, decreased the particle agglomeration and improved the particle purity. The introduced complexing ligand acetylacetone decreased the obtained nanoparticle size. The improved powder properties accelerated the sintering of the $In_2Sn_{1-x}O_{5-y}$ nanoparticles and reached a relative density of 96.4% when pressureless sintered at $1400^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.9-17
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• 1997

The mullite-zirconia composites were prepared by the pressureless sintering with addition of 10~20 vol% ZrO$_2$(TZ3Y) in the fused mullite and sol-gel mullite matrix. The densification rate of sol-gel mullite was higher than that of fused mullite, and the addition of ZrO$_2$(TZ3Y) was effective on the densification of fused mullite. The enhancement of densification and anisotropic growth of mullite in ZrO$_2$added specimen can be explained by the solid solution effect of $Zr^{+4}$ ion in mullite. Both mechanical strength and fracture toughness of mullite-zirconia composite were enhanced compared to those of mullite. The enhancement of mechanical properties is attributed to the hinderance of grain growth and the combined toughening effects of tetra-mono phase transformation and crack deflection due to the residual stress between mullite/ZrO$_2$.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.216-222
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• 1995

$SiC/TiB_2$ composites of varying $TiB_2$ content from 0 to 52 vol.% were prepared by pressureless sintering. When these composites were sintered at $2150^{\circ}C$ the mechanical properties such as elastic modulus, strength and toughness increased with increasing $TiB_2$ content. On the other hand, at a sintering temperature of $2200^{\circ}C$, the mechanical properties reduced gradually with increasing $TiB_2$ content. The main reason was deduced from the onset of spontaneous microcracking and the critical particle size for microcracking was calculated approximately 5.6 $\mu\textrm{m}$.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1150-1158
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• 2000

반도성 SrTiO$_3$분말을 이용하여 상압에서 제조된 소결체의 소결 분위기에 따른 소결체 입계의 결함 화학 및 전기적 특성을 고찰하였다. 소결 분위기를 질소-수소, 질소, 공기로 변화시킴에 따라서 입계에서 O/(Sr+Ti)의 비는 1.6로부터 2.1로 증가하였으며, 또한 입계의 과잉 음전하층에서 전하 밀도는 1C/$ extrm{cm}^2$로부터 1.26C/$\textrm{cm}^2$로 증가하였다. 소결체의 문턱 전압, 입계 저항 그리고 입계 전위 장벽은 소결 분위기를 질소-수소로부터 공기로 변화시킴에 따라 6.40-1000 V/cm, 2.70-3050 kΩ 그리고 0.08-10.9 eV로 각각 증가하였다.