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Two Cores in One Grain in the Microstructure of Silicon Nitride Prepared With Aligned Whisker Seeds

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Author(s)

D S. Park, T W. Roh, B Hockey, Y Takigawa, B D. Han, H D. Kim, Y Yasutomi

Abstract

The microstructure of silicon nitride with aligned silicon nitride whisker seeds was examined by electron microscopy. Silicon nitride sintered with yttria and alumina showed a core-rim structure. A few grains of the sample sintered with yttria and alumina had more than one core within one grain. This was explained in terms of coalescence of the grains growing from separate cores. A boundary with small misfit was observed by TEM, also supporting the possibility of grain coalescence.
Citation
Journal of European Ceramic Society
Volume
23
Issue
No. 3

Keywords

aligned whisker seeds, coalescence, core-rim, silicon nitride

Citation

Park, D. , Roh, T. , Hockey, B. , Takigawa, Y. , Han, B. , Kim, H. and Yasutomi, Y. (2003), Two Cores in One Grain in the Microstructure of Silicon Nitride Prepared With Aligned Whisker Seeds, Journal of European Ceramic Society (Accessed December 2, 2024)

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Created February 28, 2003, Updated October 12, 2021