High Temperature Plastic Flow and Ductility in Polycrystalline Oxide Ceramics: Doping Effect and Related Phenomena

Abstract:

High temperature creep and superplastic flow in high-purity oxide ceramics such as alumina and tetragonal zirconia polycrystals is very sensitive to a small amount of doping by various oxides. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy and an energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analysis revealed that grain boundaries in high-purity oxide ceramics are free from amorphous phase, and that the doped cations tend to segregate along the grain boundaries. Since the high temperature plastic flow in oxide ceramics takes place mainly by grain boundary matter transport by atomic diffusion, the grain boundary nano-structure control must be a useful way to develop new high-performance functional ceramics in the near future.

• Periodical: Advances in Science and Technology (Volume 45)
• Pages: 1620-1625
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AST.45.1620
• Online since: October 2006
• Authors: Hidehiro Yoshida, Koji Morita, Byung Nam Kim, Keijiro Hiraga, Takahisa Yamamoto, Yuichi Ikuhara, Taketo Sakuma
• Keywords: Aluminum (Al), Grain Boundary, High Temperature Creep, Superplasticity, TEM, Tetragonal Zirconia Polycrystal

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