Papers by Keyword: Millimeter-Wave Sintering

Abstract: The millimeter wave (MMW) sintering of alumina ceramic had been performed. The results revealed that MMW sintered alumina has higher density than that of conventional method on all sintering temperature. However microstructure evaluation demonstrates that grain growth of MM wave annealed alumina is faster than in conventional annealing. It indicates that MM wave enhanced mass transport and solid state reaction rates during sintering. The empirical observations of microwave enhancements have been broadly known as microwave effect. Even though no satisfactory theory existed to explain the effect but the presence the electromagnetic waves (EMW) during microwave heating is clearly the key. In this paper, microwave effect on grain growth of alumina ceramic is presented. Some effective and unique characteristics of the EMW sintering were also discussed as well.

Abstract: By means of 34.5 GHz millimeter-wave (MMW) sintering, BaO-Nd2O3-TiO2 microwave ceramic dielectric was prepared from nano-particles of the xBaO×(0.35-x)Nd2O3×0.65TiO2 ternary compound, which possess fine grain, low porosity and good dielectric characteristics. The materials which have ultra-low dielectric loss can be fired by MMW heating at very high frequency, which is unable to be done by normal microwave heating at 2.45 GHz. The sintering temperature is 160 ~ 400°C lower than that of normal firing. The ceramic sample consists of the main phase of Nd2Ti2O7 with perovskite-like layer structure (PLS) and the secondary phase of BaNd2Ti4O12 (Ba4.5Nd9Ti18O54)with perovskite-like tungsten bronze structure, being the same as the results from normal sintering. The excellent microwave characteristics were observed.