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)
  • 발행 : 2006.09.24

초록

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.

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