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 …

The spark plasma sintering (SPS) method is of great interest to the powder and powder
metallurgy industry and material researchers of academia for both product manufacturing …

Abstract Bulk equiatomic (Hf-Ta-Zr-Ti) C and (Hf-Ta-Zr-Nb) C high entropy Ultra-High
Temperature Ceramic (UHTC) carbide compositions were fabricated by ball milling and …

Flash sintering is a novel densification technology for ceramics, which allows a dramatic
reduction of processing time and temperature. It represents a promising sintering route to …

Flash sintering (FS) is an energy efficient sintering technique involving electrical Joule
heating, which allows very rapid densification (< 60 s) of particulate materials. Since the first …

Field‐assisted sintering technology/Spark plasma sintering is a low voltage, direct current
(DC) pulsed current activated, pressure‐assisted sintering, and synthesis technique, which …

Sintering and accompanying microstructural evolution is inarguably the most important step
in the processing of ceramics and hard metals. In this process, an ensemble of particles is …

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

We show that yttrium‐stabilized zirconia can be sintered in a few seconds at∼ 850° C to full
density, starting from a green density of 0.5, by the application of a dc electrical field …

Despite sintering has a history even longer than human civilization (its discovery dates back
at least to 25,000 years ago), in the past decade, new exciting challenges have emerged in …