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Silicate Glass and Evaporation from Sapphire Surfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

N. Ravishankar  and
C. Barry Carter
N. Ravishankar
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN55455-01432
C. Barry Carter
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN55455-01432
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Ceramic materials are processed at high temperatures where different mechanisms of mass transport are operative. The liquid-phase sintering (LPS) process involves the formation of a silicate liquid at the sintering temperature. In this case, mass transport takes place at the solidliquid, solid-vapor and liquid-solid interfaces. The mechanism and kinetics of these processes controls the microstructure. The silicate phase, which is usually the sintering additive, may influence the evaporation from and of the ceramic. The importance of the evaporation process has been clearly brought out in previous studies on the dewetting of silicates on a ceramic substrate. The present study considers the influence of a silicate phase (celsian) on evaporation from a ceramic (sapphire) substrate.

Pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) has been used to deposit thin films (∼100 nm thick) of celsian (BaAl2Si2O8) on sapphire single-crystals of basal orientation. In the present study, the film/substrate assembly has been annealed at high temperatures (1750°C to 1850°C) in a vacuum furnace.

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Ceramics & Minerals
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 6 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis 2000, Microscopy Society of America 58th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 34th Annual Meeting, Microscopical Society of Canada/Societe de Microscopie de Canada 27th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 13-17, 2000 , August 2000 , pp. 388 - 389
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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