2016/10/13 by Hanzheng Guo, Amanda Baker, Jing Guo +1 · 14 citations
Materials Science · Engineering · #Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials #Microwave Dielectric Ceramics Synthesis #Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
paper · doi:10.1111/jace.14554
Research on sintering of dense ceramic materials has been very active in the past decades and still keeps gaining in popularity. Although a number of new techniques have been developed, the sintering process is still performed at high temperatures. Very recently we established a novel protocol, the “Cold Sintering Process ( CSP )”, to achieve dense ceramic solids at extraordinarily low temperatures of <300°C. A wide variety of chemistries and composites were successfully densified using this technique. In this article, a comprehensive CSP tutorial will be delivered by employing three classic ferroelectric materials ( KH 2 PO 4 , Na NO 2 , and BaTiO 3 ) as examples. Together with detailed experimental demonstrations, fundamental mechanisms, as well as the underlying physics from a thermodynamics perspective, are collaboratively outlined. Such an impactful technique opens up a new way for cost‐effective and energy‐saving ceramic processing. We hope that this article will provide a promising route to guide future studies on ultralow temperature ceramic sintering or ceramic materials related integration.