Papers by Author: Kwang Taek Hwang

Abstract: Alumina powder is used to improve the heat conduction and physical properties of heat radiation sheets, these properties can be improved by increasing the filling rate of alumina. Spherical alumina powder is being actively developed to improve the filling rate of alumina in sheets. In this study, a high-temperature flame was created by the flame-fusion method using an oxygen burner to produce spherical alumina. We investigated how the chemical composition and particle size of starting materials affect their fusion behavior under flaming conditions during spherical alumina production using the flame-fusion method. Boehmite and aluminum hydroxide, which accompany the endothermic reaction due to the dehydration of the starting materials, showed lower spheroidization ratios than sintered alumina. The spheroidization ratio improved as the particle size of the starting materials decreased.

Abstract: The synthesis of AlN via self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) was attempted, using various ratio of Al powder mixed with AlN powder as diluents. Al and AlN powder mixtures with various weight ratios were ignited a nitrogen atmosphere with various amounts of carbon as additives. High crystalline AlN by SHS were successfully synthesized. The microstructure development during the reaction and the influence of these additives were determined by SEM and XRD analysis. A mechanism for the formation of high purity AlN with a very low content of residual oxygen (<0.8wt %) was proposed.

Abstract: AlN powders by the chemical vapor synthesis (CVS) process in the AlCl3-NH3-N2-H2 system were successfully synthesized. Gasified AlCl3 as a starting material was generated by pre-heating system and transported to the tube furnace in NH3-N2-H2 atmosphere. High crystalline AlN was synthesized at over 900°C. The average particle size of spherical AlN powders decreased from 250 to 40nm with increasing the reaction temperature of the tube furnace. Porous nano-size particles synthesized at high reaction temperature have low oxygen contents.