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Development of an instrumented and automated single mode cavity for ceramic microwave sintering: Application to an alpha pure alumina powder

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This paper describes the development of an instrumented and automated single mode microwave cavity for sintering ceramic powders. This setup includes an optical dilatometer and a motorized plunger to control heating cycles in a wide range of heating rates (from 5 degrees C. min(-1) to 200 degrees C. min(-1)) up to 1600 degrees C and to allow reliable comparison with conventional sintering. The cavity and the sintering cells for both hybrid and direct microwave sintering were designed using finite element simulation. For accurate temperature measurement, an optical pyrometer calibrated with a specific protocol has been used. Microwave sintering of fine grained (<100 nm) alpha alumina compacts was thus investigated and compared to conventional sintering. This pure alumina powder has been sintered by direct microwave heating, without any susceptor nor doping element to initiate heating as often achieved in the literature. The comparison of the densification kinetics along an identical thermal cycle evidenced a significant enhancement of sintering under microwaves during the first and intermediate stages. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

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hal-01263552 , version 1 (27-01-2016)

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Jérémy Croquesel, Didier Bouvard, Jean-Marc Chaix, Claude P. Carry, Sébastien Saunier. Development of an instrumented and automated single mode cavity for ceramic microwave sintering: Application to an alpha pure alumina powder. Materials & Design, 2015, 88, pp.98-105. ⟨10.1016/j.matdes.2015.08.122⟩. ⟨hal-01263552⟩
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