Proceedings of the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute Conference (한국분말야금학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2006.09a
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- Pages.266-267
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- 2006
Microwave Heating and Pre-sintering of Copper Powder Metal Compacts in Separated Electric and Magnetic Fields
- Zimmerman, Darin T. (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University) ;
- Johnson, Earnie J. (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University) ;
- Ma, JunKun (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University) ;
- Miskovsky, Nicholas M. (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University) ;
- Weisel, Gary J. (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University) ;
- Weiss, Brock L. (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University)
- Published : 2006.09.24
Abstract
We present a systematic study of the heating and pre-sintering behavior of porous copper powder metal compacts. We employ a TE102 single mode microwave system to position the samples in the separated electric field (E) or magnetic field (H) anti-node of the cavity. We observe significant differences in the heating, pre-sintering, and microstructure evolution of the samples due to the individual fields. We note that sample history (whether heated first in the E-field or H-field) greatly effects a difference in heating trends and subsequent heating behavior and does not appear to be solely a thermal process.