Translucent α-Sialon Ceramics by Hot Pressing |
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Authors: | Xinlu Su Peiling Wang Weiwu Chen Bo Zhu Yibing Cheng Dongsheng Yan |
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Affiliation: | The State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Ding Xi Road, Shanghai 200050, P. R. China;School of Physics and Materials Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia |
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Abstract: | The single-phase α-sialon ceramics with high optical transmittance have been prepared by hot pressing. The maximum transmittance reached 65.2% and 52.2% in the infrared wavelength region, 58.5% and 40% in the visible region for the samples 1.0 and 1.5 mm thickness, respectively. The material also exhibited good mechanical properties of high hardness (20 GPa) and better fracture toughness (5.1 MPa·m1/2). Both high optical transmittance and improved toughness of α-sialon ceramics were attributed to the less-grain-boundary glassy phase and the homogeneous microstructure, which was obtained by a proper process and confirmed by SEM and TEM observation, compared to that prepared by ordinary sintering. It is, therefore, expected that the translucent α-sialon ceramics could be a promising optical window material. |
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Keywords: | sialon hot pressing optical materials/properties |
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