Flash sintering of ceramics

M Biesuz, VM Sglavo - Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

What's new in ceramics sintering? A short report on the latest trends and future prospects

M Biesuz, S Grasso, VM Sglavo - Current Opinion in Solid State and …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Review of flash sintering with strong electric field

H Zhou, X Li, Y Zhu, J Liu, A Wu, G Ma, X Wang… - High …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Flash sintering is a novel field‐assisted sintering technology for ceramics that allows a
dramatic reduction in processing time and temperature. Since 2010, when flash sintering …

Electronic conductivity in gadolinium doped ceria under direct current as a trigger for flash sintering

TP Mishra, RRI Neto, G Speranza, A Quaranta… - Scripta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we discuss the progression of flash sintering in 10mol% gadolinium-doped
ceria specimens. Flash transition is correlated with the generation of n-type electronic …

Current-rate flash sintering of gadolinium doped ceria: microstructure and defect generation

TP Mishra, RRI Neto, R Raj, O Guillon, M Bram - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
In current-rate flash-sintering experiments the current is injected into the specimen from the
very start and then increased at a constant rate, while the furnace is held at a constant …

On the confluence of ultrafast high‐temperature sintering and flash sintering phenomena

R Raj, DE Wolf, CN Yamada, SK Jha… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrafast high‐temperature sintering (UHS) and flash sintering are novel methods for rapid
sintering of ceramics, often completed in just a few seconds. Here, we show that both also …

Gas-discharge induced flash sintering of YSZ ceramics at room temperature

Y Zhu, H Zhou, R Huang, N Yan, X Wang, G Liu… - Journal of Advanced …, 2022 - Springer
This is the first study to conduct the flash sintering of 3 mol% yttria-stabilized zirconia (3YSZ)
ceramics at room temperature (25° C) under a strong electric field, larger than 1 kV/cm. At …

Generation of Frenkel defects above the Debye temperature by proliferation of phonons near the Brillouin zone edge

M Jongmanns, R Raj, DE Wolf - New Journal of Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A novel, non-radiative mechanism is reported by which Frenkel pairs of vacancies and
interstitials are generated in molar concentrations far above thermal equilibrium. This …

Measurement of O and Ti atom displacements in TiO2 during flash sintering experiments

B Yoon, D Yadav, R Raj, E Sortino… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In‐situ flash experiments on rutile TiO2 were performed at the synchrotron at the
Brookhaven National Laboratory. Pair distribution function analysis of total X‐ray scattering …

Development of a processing map for safe flash sintering of gadolinium‐doped ceria

TP Mishra, C Lenser, R Raj, O Guillon… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Flash sintering was discovered in 2010, where a dog‐bone‐shaped zirconia sample was
sintered at a furnace temperature of 850° C in< 5 s by applying electric fields of~ 100 V cm …