Ceramics, Volume 5, Issue 3
2022 September - 26 articles
Cover Story: The exposure of ceramic films to a high-temperature environment limits the substrate choice. We are proposing a photonic sintering (flash lamp annealing—FLA) method to sinter ceramic films on substrates with softening points much lower than those of ceramic materials. We are solving the main obstacle to the FLA of ceramic films—low light absorption in the visible range—by adding colored pigments to the precursor alumina or zirconia. To investigate the most effective pigment for sintering we admixed 5 vol% of red (α-Fe2O3), brown ((Fe,Mn)2O3), yellow (α-FeOOH), and black (Fe3O4) pigments to the alumina slurry. The highest absorption has an alumina layer colored by red α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles. A thin alumina film on glass and a zirconia coating on flexible metal foil were obtained by FLA in 7 seconds. View this paper - Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
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