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Freeze granulation: Powder processing for transparent alumina applications

Paul Bowen, Zhe Zhao, Michael Stuer

Use of freeze granulated powders is successfully used as an industrially viable alternative to loose powder sintering for transparent polycrystalline alumina (PCA). Freeze granulation with narrow granule size distribution was realized after suspension cond ...

2012

A Ga2O3 underlayer as an isomorphic template for ultrathin hematite films toward efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal, Nicolas Tétreault, Maurin Cornuz, Jérémie Minh-Châu Brillet, Takashi Hisatomi

Hematite photoanodes for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting are often fabricated as extremely-thin films to minimize charge recombination because of the short diffusion lengths of photoexcited carriers. However, poor crystallinity caused by structu ...

2012

The influence of aluminium on the dissolution of amorphous silica and its relation to alkali silica reaction

Karen Scrivener, Theodor Alexandre Emmanuele Chappex

It is known that the addition of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in concretes reduces or even stops expansion due to alkali silica reaction (ASR). It has been widely shown that the main mechanism controlling ASR in blends is the alkali fixation ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2012

Transparent Polycrystalline Alumina : Processing, Sintering and Microstructural Analysis

Michael Stuer

Over the last century, the constant quest to improve the mechanical properties of ceramics has ultimately led to the appearance and production of transparent ceramics. Indeed, microstructural refinement and reduction of the residual porosity after sinterin ...

EPFL2012

Correlation between anionic substitution and structural properties in AlCr(OxN1-x) coatings deposited by lateral rotating cathode arc PVD

Alireza Karimi, Hossein Najafi

The influence of oxygen content on the properties of cathodic arc-deposited AlCr(OxN1-x) coatings has been studied. All samples were prepared in a nitrogen-rich mixture of N-2 and O-2 at 550 degrees C using lateral rotating arc cathodes (LARC) technology t ...

2011

Anisotropic photocatalytic properties of hematite

Michael Graetzel, Ilkay Cesar

Hematite is a semiconducting mineral with a role in natural photoelectrochemical processes, and has been studied from the viewpoint of solar energy utilization. Hematite is an anisotropic conductor, with faster conduction parallel to (001) planes. Flatband ...

2009

Orientation selection in dendritic evolution

Michel Rappaz, Frédéric Claude Denis Dreyer

Computational and experimental demonstration of dendritic crystal growth direction and the morphologic diversity of the resulting dendritic structures are discussed. The primary dendrite growth directions can vary continuously between different crystallogr ...

2008

M-Plane GaN Grown on m-Plane Sapphire by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy

Nicolas Grandjean, Denis Martin

M-plane GaN epilayers have been directly grown on m-plane sapphire substrates by hydride vapor phase epitaxy using a low temperature GaN nucleation layer. The m-plane GaN surface is optically smooth and mirror-like, with rms roughness similar to 2.0 nm (5 ...

2009

Characterization and modeling of twinned dendrite growth

The formation of feathery grains during semi-continuous casting of Al-alloys [1, 2] is an interesting problem from both practical and theoretical points of view. These structures are formed by a lamellar sequence of twinned and untwinned regions separated ...

EPFL2009

Magnetotransport properties depending on the nanostructure of Fe3O4 nanowires

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Sami Jannin, Jean-Pierre Abid, Santiago Serrano Guisan

We have studied the magnetic behaviour of Fe3O4 nanowires (NWs) with two different diameter ranges, above 150 nm and below 60 nm, made by electrodeposition techniques into a polymeric template. The nanowires were characterized using various techniques, in ...

2006

Process monitoring of alumina nanoparticle synthesis by inductively coupled RF thermal plasma

Jong-Won Shin

Since the first inductively coupled plasma (ICP) torch was developed in the 60's, RF thermal plasmas have found a variety of applications in material processing such as crystal growth, thermal spray coatings, spheroidization and vaporization of refractory ...

EPFL2006