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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 269064, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/269064
Effect of Alumina Dopant on Transparency of Tetragonal Zirconia
1Advanced Materials Processing Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan
2Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
Received 28 October 2012; Accepted 15 December 2012
Academic Editor: Xijin Xu
Copyright © 2012 Haibin Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Aiming to characterize the effect of alumina dopant on transparency, powders of yttria stabilized tetragonal zirconia doped with alumina (TZ-3Y-E) are used as starting material to fabricate transparent tetragonal ZrO2 by high-pressure spark plasma sintering (HP-SPS). However, low transparency of the resultant TZ-3Y-E specimens does not suggest a beneficial effect of alumina dopant although nanometric grains and high density have been achieved. The mechanism is analyzed by comparing with the results of as-sintered yttria stabilized tetragonal zirconia without alumina dopant.