• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.347-352
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• 1991

The effects of Ta2O3 doping on the microstructure, electrical properties and thermal expansion in Pb(Zr0.525Ti0.475)O3 ceramics were studied. Density, average grain size, electromechanical coupling factor kp and thermal expansion coefficient of unpoled and poled samples were measured as a function of Ta2O5 content. Average grain size was decreased and density increased above 0.6 mol% Ta2O5 addition. In case of 0.2 mol% addition, density showed minimum according to grain growth. Dielectric constant and electromechanical coupling factor kp were the lowest in 0.2 mol% addition increased with Ta2O5 addition.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.415-421
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• 1991

Influence of Li2O.4B2O3 frit addition on the microstructure and thermal expansion properties of $\beta$-eucryptite ceramics was studied. With 1.0~10.0wt% frit addition, sintering temperature range was enlarged and densified body was obtained. Thermal expansion was increased from -6.67$\times$10-6 $^{\circ}C$-1 of pure sintered body to 1.03$\times$10-6$^{\circ}C$-1 of 6 wt% added body, but this increasement was accompanied by inhibition of thermal expansion anisotropy, so that improved microcracking property.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.645-654
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• 1988

The microstructure and electrical characteristics of ZnO-Bi2O3 ceramics containing 5mol% Bi2O3 have been studied in relation to sintering temperature and mode. The distribution and thickness of Bi2O3 intergranular layer was varied with sintering temperature and mode. Intergranular layer was more homogeneous with increasing sintering temperature, when sintering by direct heating and rapid cooling mode showed the best distribution of intergranular layer. These microstructural changes affected electrical characteristics directly, at 140$0^{\circ}C$ and C mode obtained high value of electrical resistivity and nonlinear exponent. Varistor voltage decreased with increasing sintering temperature, increased with decreasing holding time at high temperature. Barrier voltage obtained by calculation was about 1.5V.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.396-401
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• 2013

The size of various alumina ceramics used in the semiconductor and display industries must be increased to increase the size of wafers and panels. In this research, large alumina ceramics were fabricated by pressure-vacuum hybrid slip casting (PVHSC) employing a commercial powder, followed by sintering in a furnace. In the framework of the PVHSC method, the consolidation occurs not only by compression of the slip in the casting room but also by suction of the dispersion medium from the casting room. When sintered at $1650^{\circ}C$ for 4 h, the fabricated large-size alumina ($1,550{\times}300{\times}30mm^3$) exhibited a dense microstructure corresponding to more than 99.2% of the theoretical density and a high purity of 99.79%. The flexural and compressive strengths of the alumina plate were greater than 340 MPa and 2,600 MPa, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.33 no.7
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• pp.809-815
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• 1996

When Li2O.2SiO2 glass was crystallized between the temperature of maximum nucleation and the temperature of maximum crystal growth it was found that the control of heating rate had serious effect on the crystallinity and microstructure and the greatly changed physical properties. Density and elastic modulus tends to increase but thermal expansion coefficient decreased with increased crystallinity. When heating rate between the tempe-rature of maximum nucleation and the temperature of maximum crystal growth was 10~5$0^{\circ}C$/hr. crystallinity was increased to result in the increment of strength. When nuclation was done at 44$0^{\circ}C$ for 5 hours and the temperature of crystal growth was held at 575$^{\circ}C$ strength was increased until crystallinity reached 65% and strength was decreased with higher crystallinity. These phenomena could be explained that even for the same crystallinity different heat rates resulted in different number and size of cracks.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.35 no.11
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• pp.1227-1232
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• 1998

In order to prohibit the delay of early stage hydration activator Na2SO4 was added to Fly Ash blended ce-ment and its effects were investigated. Various measurements such as Compressive strength Heat of hy-dration Pore size distribution Hydration products Microstructure were evaluated and the results show that specimens of Fly Ash(50wt%) with 5% Na2SO4 dramatically improved the compressive strength because pozzolanic reaction of Fly Ash and the formation of ettringite make th microstructure denser than OPC and flyash cement paste.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.612-617
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• 2014

The microstructure, nonlinear properties, and impulse clamping characteristics of Pr/Co/Cr/Al co-doped zinc oxide ceramics were investigated with various contents of $Er_2O_3$. Increasing $Er_2O_3$ content increased the density of the sintered pellets from 5.69 to $5.83g/cm^3$, and decreased the average grain size from 10.6 to $6.5{\mu}m$. With increased $Er_2O_3$ content, the breakdown field increased from 2318 to 4205 V/cm, and the nonlinear coefficient increased from 19.4 to 40.2. The clamp characteristics were improved with the increase of the content of $Er_2O_3$. The varistors doped with 2.0 mol% exhibited the best clamp characteristics, in which the clamp voltage ratio was 1.40-1.73 at 1-50 A in an impulse current.

• Journal of Ceramic Processing Research
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• v.13 no.spc1
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• pp.149-153
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• 2012

Ti2AlN MAX-phase films were synthesized through the post-annealing process of as-deposited Ti-Al-N films. Near amorphous or quasi-crystalline ternary Ti-Al-N films were deposited on Si and Al2O3 substrates by sputtering a Ti2AlN MAX-phase target at room temperature, 300 ℃ and 450 ℃, respectively. A vacuum annealing of those films at 800 ℃ for 1 hour changed those films to crystalline Ti2AlN MAX-phase. The polycrystalline Ti2AlN MAX-phase films exhibited very excellent oxidation resistance due to its characteristics microstructure (nanolaminates), which has potential applications for high-temperature protective coatings. The microstructure and composition of Ti2AlN MAX-phase films were investigated using with a variety of characterization tools.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.703-714
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• 1994

Sintering and microstructure of Ce-TZP/Al2O3 composite with $\alpha$-Al2O3 matrix containing dispersed 5~50 vol% ZrO2 were discussed. Sintered density was increased with elevating forming pressure in range of 6~300 MPa and about >99.2% of theoretical density was obtained at 1$600^{\circ}C$ for 2h in case of 300 MPa of 6~300 MPa uniaxially cold-pressed compacts containing 20 vol% ZrO2. All kinds of different batch composition exhibited nearly the same shrinkage behaviour with end-point shrinkage between 20 and 24%, and had the maximum shrinkage rate (0.41~0.54%/min) around 140$0^{\circ}C$. Grain growth was occurred faster in $\alpha$-Al2O3 than in {{{{ gamma }}-Al2O3 starting matrix during sintering at 1$600^{\circ}C$. Bimodal pore size distribution of interaglomerate pores with size of 0.03~0.2 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ and of interaglomerate pores with size of around 60 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ was obtained in Ce-TZP/$\alpha$-Al2O3 composite sintered at 130$0^{\circ}C$. But unimodal pore size distribution with around 0.1 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ was observed in Ce-TZP/{{{{ gamma }}-Al2O3 composite sintered at the same temperature. Microcracks were occurred due to the tlongrightarrowm transformation of ZrO2 on cooling process.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.343-350
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• 1997

To fabricate the ceramic/metal(SiC/ Al alloy) composite, SiC preform was prepared by Pressureless Powder Packing Forming Method and 6061 Al alloy was infiltrated into the preform. Uniform compact having an average pore size of 10 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ and narrow pore size distribution was prepared. Phenolic resin solution(40 wt%) was penetrated into the SiC compact, and then the compact was preheated at the temperature of 120$0^{\circ}C$. The pore size distribution and the microstructure of the preform were not changed by preheating. An uniform microstructure without any crack in the preform was obtained in SiC-Al alloy composite. The infiltration of 6061. Al alloy into the preform began at the temperature of 130$0^{\circ}C$ and the amount of infiltration increased in proportion to the infiltration temperature and the soaking time. The increasement rate of the infiltration amount decreased after 3 h. As a result of the infiltration at 140$0^{\circ}C$ for 4 h, Al alloy was well distributed in the interparticle channels and the relative density of the composite was above 98%. The strength and the fracture toughness of the composite were 303 MPa and 21.65 MPam1/2, respectively.