Control of Texture in Electroceramics by Slip-Casting in a High Magnetic Field
Control of Texture in Electroceramics by Slip-Casting in a High Magnetic Field
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高磁场中注浆成型对电陶瓷织构的控制
DOI:
10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.248.191
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发表时间:
2003
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Y. Sakka
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作者:
Tohru S. Suzuki;Y. Sakka
The control of texture in ceramics is one of the ways for effec tively improving their properties. Anisotropic susceptibility is very small in ZnO and TiO 2; therefore, it had been very difficult to developing the textured microstructure using a magnetic field. But we demonstrate in this paper that the textured ZnO and TiO 2 can be prepared by a colloidal processing in a high magnetic field followed by heating. A green solid with a slight degree of crysta llographic orientation was obtained before sintering. The degree of texture increased with increasing temperature, and crystallographic texture development accompanies the densification and grain growth in the specimens. INTRODUCTION Zinc oxide and titania are important electronic ceramics for use in diverse applications. Zinc oxide with a predominantly c-axis orientation is useful for acoustic and pi ezoelectric devices as a result of the large coupling coefficients for these effects. The controlled d velopment of the crystal orientation in zinc oxide is one of the ways for effectively improving these propertie s. Ceramics with asymmetric unit cells show anisotropic susceptibi lity, but it is very small in diamagnetic and paramagnetic ceramics such as ZnO and TiO 2; therefore, it is generally difficult to utilize a magnetic field for controlling the texture in these c eramics. Recently, the development of superconducting magnets has been extending the potential applications of hi gh magnetic fields. Interesting phenomena associated with high magnetic fields have been reported [1,2] and magnetic fields have been used to produce a textured microstructure in many kinds of materials [3 -6]. A crystal with an anisotropic magnetic susceptibility will rot ate to an angle minimizing the system energy when placed in a magnetic field. The reduction of the magneti c energy on the rotation is ∆E = −(∆χVB)/2μ0, where ∆χ = χa,b−χc is the anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility, V is the volume of each particle, μ0 is the permeability in a vacuum and B is the applied magnetic field. This is the driving force for magnetic alignment. The dispersion of powder in a suspension is necessary for effective ut ilization of the magnetic field, because a strong interaction between the agglomerated particles in a uspension prevents each particle from rotating under the application of a magnetic field. C olloidal processing was used in this study because the processing is very effective in developing cons olidated fine particles, thereby avoiding heterogeneous agglomerates, by using repulsive surface forces [7].