• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제37권11호
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• pp.1114-1118
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• 2000

Ti 및 C 입자로 이루어진 다공질 성형체에 용융 Si의 침윤 및 반응으로 새로운 Ti$_3$SiC$_2$합성공정이 개발되었다. 용융 Si 침윤에 의한 Ti$_3$SiC$_2$합성공정에서는 이제까지 연구된 합성방법 보다 넓은 조성 범위에서 Ti$_3$SiC$_2$의 합성이 이루어졌다. 용융 Si을 활성 매질로 사용한 Ti$_3$SiC$_2$의 합성에서는 성형체 조성, 원료 입자 크기 및 침윤되는 용융 Si의 양에 따라 합성되는 상 및 각 합성상의 양이 다르게 나타났다. Ti:Si:C=3:1:6 조성을 제외한 모든 조성의 시편에서 Ti$_3$SiC$_2$상이 합성되었으며, 일부 조성을 제외한 모든 조성의 시편에서 Ti$_3$SiC$_2$, TiC 및 SiC가 함께 합성되었다. 작은 Ti 입자로 이루어진 성형체를 사용하여 합성한 시편에서 Ti$_3$SiC$_2$상의 합성이 용이하게 이루어졌으며, 성형체 조성 및 침윤되는 Si의 양이 화학양론적으로 Ti$_3$SiC$_2$에 근접한 조성을 갖는 시편에서 Ti$_3$SiC$_2$를 높은 수율로 합성할 수 있었다.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.241-248
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• 2006

The effects of silicon content and melt treatment on the fluidity of Al-Si alloys during squeeze casting were investigated. The fluidity of Al-3.0 wt%Si alloy was found to be lower than that of Al-1.0 wt%Si and the fluidity of the alloy with more than 3.0 wt%Si increased with the silicon content upto 13.0 wt% and rather decreased with15.0 wt%. The fluidity was also increased by the separated treatment of grain refinement or eutectic modification, and even more by the simultaneous treatment of both. The fluidity of hypereutectic alloy was increased by the refinement of primary silicon particle.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.441-449
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• 1993

SiC particulate reinforced magnesium matrix composites were fabricated by melt stirring method. The effet of several factors on mechanical properties and the efficiency of melt stirring method from the viewpoint of these properties were investigated. The tensile strength increased and the elongation decreased with decrease of the particle size or the increase of the paticulate volume fraction for pure magnesium matrix and Mg-5%Zn alloy matrix composites. A longer stirring time improved the tensile strength of these composites. The tensile strength of Mg-5%Ca alloy matrix composites which shows no uniform paticulate distribution was a little lower than that of matrix alloy. Rapid solidification rate is preferred for the improved tensile strength of these composites. The pure magnesium matrix and Mg-5%Zn alloy matrix composites have tensile strength of about 400MPa. This value agrees with the tensile strength of some magnesium matrix composites fabricated by liquid infiltration method or powder metallurgy method at the same volume fraction of reinforcements of whisker or particle. Therefore, the melt stirring method which has the advantages of simple process is considered to be efficient in fabricating magnesium matrix composites.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.350-358
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• 1993

Aluminum base composites reinforced with various amount of SiC particles and Mg contents have been investigated by different fabrication method for twenty-years. In this paper, how the decomposition and dissolution behaviors of $SiCp(20{\mu}m)$ in the melt of Al composites arised was studied. As the results, the decomposition and dissolution of SiCp into the melt of Al composites increased with increase of the temperature above $720^{\circ}C$, and holding time at a given melting temperature. Because SiC is thermodynamically unstable in this Al-SiCp composite at temperature above the liquidus, SiCp dissolves and reacts with Al in matrix to form $Al_4C_3$ according to following chemical equation $4Al+3SiC{\rightarrow}Al_4C_3+3Si$, Si decomposed and dissolved from SiCp increases Si content of matrix, while liquidus temperature of matrix decrease with increase of SiC content in matrix. The hardness of SiCp decreased with increase of the melting temperature, the hardness of the matrix /particle interface increased with increase of the melting temperature due to increase of the $Mg_2Si$ and $Al_4C_3$ intermetallic compounds, etc.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.274-284
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• 1994

SiC fibers were coated with Cu, Ag and Ni metallic thin films by magnetron sputtering in order to improve wetting properties between Al matrix and SiC fiber. The wetting behavior of metal coated SiC fiber by pure Al has been studied at $670^{\circ}C{\sim}900^{\circ}C$ range for $10{\sim}90min$. under vacuum atmosphere. Besides, the effect of coated film thickness on the wettability has been investigated. The wetting behavior and interfacial reaction between Al and SiC fibers were analysed with optical microscope and SEM (scanning electron microscope). The wetting behavior of the as-received SiC fiber with Al melt was not uniform, indicated by the contact angles from less than $90^{\circ} to more Al melt was appeared in the initial stage of reation. It was considered that the metallic thin film played an important role in reducing the interfacial free energy and breaking down the aluminum oxide film by eutectic reaction with Al melt. However the wettability of Ni coated SiC fiber was not improved as much as that of Cu or Ag coated SiC fiber. The improvement of wettability by coating thickness is clearly showed in $1{\mu}m$ coated SiC fiber compared with $0.25{\mu}m$ coated SiC.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2018

Various Si-Fe-Al ternary alloys were prepared with the same amount of Si by the melt spinning technique. The feasibility of the capacity prediction approach based on the estimation of the active amount of Si using the phase diagram was practically examined and reported. These predictions were verified by the electrochemical test of fabricated coin cells and other characterization methods. The capacity prediction approach using the phase diagram might be a fundamental and efficient method to accelerate the practical application of Si-based alloys as the anode material for Li-ion batteries. The details on the prediction procedure were discussed.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.336-346
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• 1994

용융 silicon과 carbon 입자가 어떠한 반응관계를 나타내는가를 알아보기 위하여 sili-con만으로 된 powder와 silicon에 carbon을 0.2wt%의 비율로 혼합한 powder와 silicon에 carbon을 0.2wt%의 비율로 혼합한 powder를 silicon의 용융점 이사의 고온인 $1450^{\circ}C, 1550^{\circ}C, 1650^{\circ}C, 1700^{\circ}C$에서 각각 1시간, 4시간을 유지시킨 다음 quenching시켜 각각의 조건에 따른 반응의 정도 및 상의 분포와 morphology의 분석을 통해 melt sili-con의 morphology 변화,carbon이 함유된 silicon의 조건에 따른 물성변화 및 SiC의 형성여부를 조사하기 위하여 광학현미경과 SEM, XRD등을 이용하여 시편의 미세구조 및 결정화 양상을 관찰하였다. 용융점 이상의 온도에서 quartz는 연화하여 분해반응을 일으켜 산소를 내놓고 이것이 silicon과 결합하여 SiO로써 기체상태로 휘발하게 되어 silicon melt에 산소침투로 인항 표면결함을 형성하며, liquid silicon속에 용융되어 있던 carbonrhk 불순물로써 grain boundary를 따라 존재 하고 있는 미반응의 carbon이 용융상태 silicon과 반응하여 SiC를 형성한다. SiC 결정은 고화계 면에서 발생하게 되며 생성되는 결정은 ${\alpha}-SiC$이었다.

• 한국자기학회:학술대회 개요집
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• 한국자기학회 1993년도 춘계연구발표회 논문개요집
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• pp.62-63
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• 1993

• Current Applied Physics
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.1540-1545
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• 2018

SiGe alloy is widely used thermoelectric materials for high temperature thermoelectric generator applications. However, its high thermoelectric performance has been thus far realized only in alloys synthesized employing mechanical alloying techniques, which are time-consuming and employ several materials processing steps. In the current study, for the first time, we report an enhanced thermoelectric figure-of-merit (ZT) ~ 1.1 at $900^{\circ}C$ in ntype $Si_{80}Ge_{20}$ nano-alloys, synthesized using a facile and up-scalable methodology consisting of rapid solidification at high optimized cooling rate ${\sim}3.4{\times}10^7K/s$, employing melt spinning followed by spark plasma sintering of the resulting nano-crystalline melt-spun ribbons. This enhancement in ZT > 20% over its bulk counterpart, owes its origin to the nano-crystalline microstructure formed at high cooling rates, which results in crystallite size ~7 nm leading to high density of grain boundaries, which scatter heat-carrying phonons. This abundant scattering resulted in a very low thermal conductivity ${\sim}2.1Wm^{-1}K^{-1}$, which corresponds to ~50% reduction over its bulk counterpart and is amongst the lowest reported thus far in n-type SiGe alloys. The synthesized samples were characterized using X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, based on which the enhancement in their thermoelectric performance has been discussed.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2016

The effects of ultrasonic melt treatment on the microstructures of aluminum piston were examined at five observation parts having different cooling rates. The microstructure of aluminum piston consisted of primary Si, eutectic Si, and various types of intermetallic compounds. Regardless of cooling rate, the ultrasonic melt treatment transformed dendritic eutectic cells to equiaxed eutectic cells and it decreased the sizes of eutectic Si and intermetallic compounds that exist at eutectic cell boundaries. In the absence of ultrasonic treatment, coarse primary Si particles were severely segregated and its size was increased with decreasing the cooling rate. The ultrasonic treatment decreased the size of primary Si particles from $25.5{\sim}31.0{\mu}m$ to $17.6{\sim}23.1{\mu}m$, depending on the cooling rate. In the presence of ultrasonic treatment, relatively fine primary Si particles were homogeneously distributed throughout the piston. In addition, the ultrasonic treatment increased the population density and area fraction of fine primary Si particles.