Electric Conductive Si₃N₄/TiN Composite Ceramic Manufactured by Liquid-Qhase Sintering

Abstract:

Si₃N₄ based electric conductive ceramics were fabricated by pressureless liquid phase sintering with La₂O₃-AlN and TiN as sintering and conductive additives. The Si₃N₄ powder was synthesized by SHS (self-propagation high-temperature synthesis) method. The bulk density, mechanical properties and electrical conductivity of the sintered samples were studied. Microstructure and phase composition were analyzed by SEM and XRD. The results show that the density of the samples is above 96%. The sintered samples consist of β-Sialon and the conductive phase. β-Sialon grains shows elongated and the conductive phase granular which formed electric conductive network. The sintered samples have good mechanical properties and its electric resistivity is from 10¹² Ω•cm above drop to 1 Ω•cm below.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 512-515)
• Pages: 832-836
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.512-515.832
• Online since: June 2012
• Authors: Y. Jiang, Lan Er Wu, Zhen Kun Huang
• Keywords: Conductive Particle, Electric Resistivity, Si₃N₄ Based Ceramics, TiN

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