• 제목/요약/키워드: Rare Earth

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Sintered-reaction Bonded Silicon Nitride Densified by a Gas Pressure Sintering Process - Effects of Rare Earth Oxide Sintering Additives

  • Lee, Sea-Hoon;Ko, Jae-Woong;Park, Young-Jo;Kim, Hai-Doo;Lin, Hua-Tay;Becher, Paul
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • 제49권4호
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    • pp.318-324
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    • 2012
  • Reaction-bonded silicon nitrides containing rare-earth oxide sintering additives were densified by gas pressure sintering. The sintering behavior, microstructure and mechanical properties of the resultant specimens were analyzed. For that purpose, $Lu_2O_3-SiO_2$ (US), $La_2O_3$-MgO (AM) and $Y_2O_3-Al_2O_3$ (YA) additive systems were selected. Among the tested compositions, densification of silicon nitride occurred at the lowest temperature when using the $La_2O_3$-MgO system. Since the $Lu_2O_3-SiO_2$ system has the highest melting temperature, full densification could not be achieved after sintering at $1950^{\circ}C$. However, the system had a reasonably high bending strength of 527 MPa at $1200^{\circ}C$ in air and a high fracture toughness of 9.2 $MPa{\cdot}m^{1/2}$. The $Y_2O_3-Al_2O_3$ system had the highest room temperature bending strength of 1.2 GPa.