Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

DC resistivity of alumina and zirconia sintered with TiC

  • Published:
Bulletin of Materials Science Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Pure alumina and zirconia powders were sintered separately with increasing amount of TiC up to ∼ 65 vol.%, as a conducting second phase with an aim to prepare conducting structural ceramics which can be precisely machined by EDM technique. TiC did not help in sintering the parent phase but it decreased the d.c. resistivity of the composite to 1 ohm.cm at ∼ 30 vol.% loading. The conductivity is explained by the effective media and percolation theories.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Balberg I 1987Phys. Rev. Lett. 1305

  • Bellosi Aet al 1989Electroconductive Si3N4 based composites, Euroceramics (ed.) G de With (London: Elsevier Applied Sci.), Vol 3, pp 3.389–93

    Google Scholar 

  • Buerger W 1994Keram Z.46 547, 550

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Guicciardi B.de portu 1992J. Euro. Ceram. Soc. 10 307

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Krell A, Blank P, Pippel E and Woltersdorf J 1995J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 78 2641

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mao D S, Liu X H, Li J, Guo S Y, Zhang X B and Mao Z Y 1998J. Mater. Sci. 33 5677

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Matkin D I, Cavell I W and Dyson J R 1972Proc. Br. Ceram. Soc. 23 58

    Google Scholar 

  • Mclachlan D S 1988J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. C21 1521

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mclachlan D S, Blaszkiewicz M and Newnham R E 1990J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 73 2187

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Nakayama S and Kuroshima H 1992J. Ceram. Soc. Japan 100 758

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Pierson H O 1996Handbook of refractory carbides and nitrides (USA: Noyes Publ.)

    Google Scholar 

  • Sawaguchi A, Toda K and Niihara K 1991J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 74 1142

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Wang H L, Li J B, Li Y and Liu J F 1999Study of electrical conductivity of TiC/Si3N4 ceramic composite, Proc. 1st China conf. on high performance ceramics, Beijing, (ed.) D S Yan and Z D Guan (Beijing: Tsinghua University Press) p. 432

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, 700 032, Kolkata, India

    Dibyendu Chakravarty, Soumyadip Roy & Probal K. Das

  2. College of Ceramic Technology, 700 010, Kolkata, India

    Dibyendu Chakravarty & Soumyadip Roy

Authors
  1. Dibyendu Chakravarty
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Soumyadip Roy
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Probal K. Das
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Probal K. Das.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Chakravarty, D., Roy, S. & Das, P.K. DC resistivity of alumina and zirconia sintered with TiC. Bull Mater Sci 28, 227–231 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02711252

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02711252

Keywords

Search

Navigation