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Development of Translucent Aluminum Nitride (AIN) Using Microwave Sintering Process

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Pure aluminum nitride (AIN) has been successfully sintered to highly translucent form by microwave sintering at 1850°C with a dwelling time of 30–60 minutes. The results showed that the sintering temperature should be at least 1850°C or higher to get reasonable translucency in the AIN sample by the microwave sintering process. On the other hand, the conventional sintering method requires much longer sintering time to obtain a translucent AIN ceramics.

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  1. Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Jiping Cheng, Dinesh Agrawal, Yunjin Zhang & Rustum Roy

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Cheng, J., Agrawal, D., Zhang, Y. et al. Development of Translucent Aluminum Nitride (AIN) Using Microwave Sintering Process. Journal of Electroceramics 9, 67–71 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021646219797

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