Spark plasma sintering (SPS), also known as pulsed electric current sintering (PECS) or
field-assisted sintering technique (FAST), belongs to a class of powder metallurgy …

Transparent ceramics have various potential applications such as infrared (IR)
windows/domes, lamp envelopes, opto-electric components/devices, composite armors, and …

Transparent polycrystalline ceramics have found various applications, such as laser hosts,
infrared (IR) windows/domes, lamp envelopes and transparent armors, instead of their …

Advanced expertise and technologies have been devoted to producing high functional
materials with a polycrystalline nature, which is transparent to visible light for various …

Various transparent ceramics have been fabricated by different processing techniques.
Previously, it was accepted that, to be transparent ceramics, materials should have an …

The effect of co-doping of titania and manganese oxide at different weight percentages (0.5–
5 wt%) on sintering behaviour and mechanical properties of alumina were evaluated. The …

Scalability experiments on the spark plasma sintering (SPS) of similarly shaped alumina
specimens of the four different sizes are conducted. The utilized experimental methodology …

In this paper transmittance predictions based on residual pore scattering in transparent
ceramics with cubic crystallites via Mie theory and its approximations (Rayleigh, Fraunhofer …

The essence of this study is synthesis of a newly developed and efficient heterogeneous
catalyst based on aluminum oxide support promoted with potassium iodide (KI) as active …

Abstract The original Apetz-van-Bruggen model for predicting the transmittance of dense
polycrystalline ceramics with randomly oriented birefringent crystallites is shown to be …