Inorganic Materials

, Volume 54, Issue 4, pp 349–353 | Cite as

Effect of Oxygen Impurities and Synthesis Temperature on the Phase Composition of the Products of Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis of Si3N4

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Abstract

It has been shown that raising the oxygen impurity concentration in starting mixture components reduces the temperature of the α–β phase transition of silicon nitride. At oxygen contents above 2 wt %, the phase transition involves silicon oxynitride formation and decomposition. With decreasing oxygen impurity concentration in silicon nitride, the temperature of the α–β phase transition rises, approaching the dissociation temperature.

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silicon nitride oxygen impurities α-phase phase transition dissociation temperature 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Materials ScienceRussian Academy of SciencesChernogolovkaRussia

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