Transmittance enhancement of spark plasma sintered CaF2 ceramics by preheating commercial powder |
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| Authors: | Ping Wang Zhifeng Huang Koji Morita Qizhong Li Meijun Yang Song Zhang Takashi Goto Rong Tu |
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| Affiliation: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China;2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia;3. National Institute for Materials Science, Nano-Ceramics Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan;4. Chaozhou Branch of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Chaozhou 521000, China |
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| Abstract: | Spark plasma sintering (SPS) is a convenient approach for preparing transparent CaF2 ceramics. However, carbon contamination is a key issue that should be addressed to achieve high transparency. In this study, a commercially available CaF2 powder was preheated under vacuum before performing SPS to mitigate carbon contamination. During the preheating of the CaF2 powder, impurities adsorbed on the particle surface, such as H2O, CO2, and O2, are desorbed. Moreover, the interdiffusion of carbon contaminants is suppressed due to the pre-sintering of the raw powder. The in-line transmittance of the CaF2 ceramic prepared from the preheated powder increased to 85 % at the wavelength of 1100 nm, which is 38 % higher than that of the ceramic prepared without preheating. In addition, the in-line transmittance increased with increasing grain size of the ceramic, possibly because of the decrease in the number of scattering sources with the reduction in the grain boundary fraction. |
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| Keywords: | Preheating Carbon contamination Transmittance Specific surface area |
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