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Sintering and Densification (I)—Conventional Sintering Technologies

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Transparent Ceramics

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It is well known that, to produce ceramics, green bodies must be sintered at a certain high temperature for a given time duration to develop required microstructure and thus desired properties. In particular, transparent ceramics must be fully dense to achieve maximum optical transmittance. Sintering process is governed by a number of parameters, which can be used to build up interrelationships among processing, microstructure, properties, and performance. Sintering behavior and microstructure development have been extensively studied. Qualitative understandings include driving forces of sintering, the mechanisms of densification, controlling factors, such as particle size of precursor powders, sintering temperature, time duration and applied pressure, electrical current, and so on. This chapter serves to cover the fundamental issues of the conventional sintering technologies.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Ling Bing Kong

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Yizhong Huang & Zhili Dong

  3. School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

    Wenxiu Que

  4. Anhui Target Advanced Ceramics Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China

    Tianshu Zhang

  5. School of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Sean Li

  6. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

    Jian Zhang

  7. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Dingyuan Tang

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Kong, L.B. et al. (2015). Sintering and Densification (I)—Conventional Sintering Technologies. In: Transparent Ceramics. Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18956-7_5

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