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Journal of Advanced Ceramics 2022, 11(7): 1153-1162 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-022-0602-6
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Fabrication, microstructure, and properties of 8 mol% yttria-stabilized zirconia (8YSZ) transparent ceramics

Show Author's Information Penghui CHENa,b,  Xiaoying LIa,b,  Feng TIANa,b,  Ziyu LIUa,b,  Dianjun HUa,b,  Tengfei XIEa,  Qiang LIUc,  Jiang LIa,b( )
Key Laboratory of Transparent Opto-functional Inorganic Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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microstructure, mechanical properties, yttria-stabilized zirconia (8YSZ) transparent ceramics, hot isostatic pressing (HIP), optical transparency
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CHEN P, LI X, TIAN F, et al. Fabrication, microstructure, and properties of 8 mol% yttria-stabilized zirconia (8YSZ) transparent ceramics. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2022, 11(7): 1153-1162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-022-0602-6
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Fine grained 8 mol% yttria-stabilized zirconia (8YSZ) transparent ceramics with high optical and mechanical properties were fabricated by air pre-sintering and hot isostatic pressing (HIP) using commercial 8YSZ powders as the raw material. The pre-sintered ceramics with fine grains and appropriate relative density play a key role to achieve high transparency and suppressed grain size after HIP post-treatment at relatively low temperatures. With the increase of HIP temperature from 1350 to 1550 ℃, the in-line transmittance of 8YSZ ceramics at 600 nm increases from 56.9% to 71.5% (2.5 mm in thickness), and the average grain size increases from 2.4 to 16.3 μm. The corresponding bending strength of 8YSZ transparent ceramics decreases from 328±20 to 289±19 MPa, the hardness (H) decreases from 12.9±0.1 to 12.5±0.2 GPa, and the fracture toughness (KIC) decreases from 1.30±0.02 to 1.26±0.03 MPa·m1/2. Systematical investigations were carried out to study the combination of high optical transparency and excellent mechanical properties in 8YSZ ceramics.


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Fabrication, microstructure, and properties of 8 mol% yttria-stabilized zirconia (8YSZ) transparent ceramics

Show Author's information Penghui CHENa,b, Xiaoying LIa,b, Feng TIANa,b, Ziyu LIUa,b, Dianjun HUa,b, Tengfei XIEa, Qiang LIUc, Jiang LIa,b( )
Key Laboratory of Transparent Opto-functional Inorganic Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China

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Fine grained 8 mol% yttria-stabilized zirconia (8YSZ) transparent ceramics with high optical and mechanical properties were fabricated by air pre-sintering and hot isostatic pressing (HIP) using commercial 8YSZ powders as the raw material. The pre-sintered ceramics with fine grains and appropriate relative density play a key role to achieve high transparency and suppressed grain size after HIP post-treatment at relatively low temperatures. With the increase of HIP temperature from 1350 to 1550 ℃, the in-line transmittance of 8YSZ ceramics at 600 nm increases from 56.9% to 71.5% (2.5 mm in thickness), and the average grain size increases from 2.4 to 16.3 μm. The corresponding bending strength of 8YSZ transparent ceramics decreases from 328±20 to 289±19 MPa, the hardness (H) decreases from 12.9±0.1 to 12.5±0.2 GPa, and the fracture toughness (KIC) decreases from 1.30±0.02 to 1.26±0.03 MPa·m1/2. Systematical investigations were carried out to study the combination of high optical transparency and excellent mechanical properties in 8YSZ ceramics.

Keywords: microstructure, mechanical properties, yttria-stabilized zirconia (8YSZ) transparent ceramics, hot isostatic pressing (HIP), optical transparency

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Received: 11 February 2022
Revised: 02 April 2022
Accepted: 20 April 2022
Published: 02 July 2022
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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2021YFE0104800) and the Key Research Project of Frontier Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. QYZDB-SSW-JSC022).

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