On the Effect of Electric Field During Spark Plasma Sintering — A “faraday Cage” Approach
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Abstract
This chapter presents an experimental study in which an innovative method to investigate the effect of the electric field on a material during spark plasma sintering (SPS) processing was carried out. Graphite tooling consisting of copper and alumina layers enabled sintering of pure zinc oxide such that the effect of the electric field on the zinc oxide was manipulated. Raw zinc oxide powder obtained from Fisher Scientific was used for all experiments. The particle size distribution analysis for the raw powder was carried out using a laser diffractometer. The bulk density of the as-sintered pellet was determined via the Archimedes principle in distilled water. The densities and porosities of the two pellets were within the standard deviation, and thus the electric field had a minimal impact on the powder densification under the investigated SPS operating conditions. The chemical analysis results showed that there was a reduction in the oxygen composition after sintering; however, there was minimal difference in the composition of pellets produced with and without a Faraday cage. Sintering of pellets carried out with and without a Faraday cage revealed that the density remained nearly constant for both sintering conditions.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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