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Title: Estimation of Hamaker constants of ceramic materials from optical data using Lifshitz theory

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Ceramic Society
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  1. Inst. for Surface Chemistry, Stockholm (Sweden)
  2. Royal Inst. of Tech., Stockholm (Sweden). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
  3. Linkoeping Inst. of Tech. (Sweden). Dept. of Physics and Measurement Technology

The Hamaker constants of eight different ceramic materials, 6H-SiC, tetragonal, partially stabilized ZrO{sub 2} (3% Y{sub 2}O{sub 3}), {beta}-Si{sub 3}N{sub 4}, {alpha}-Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}, Y{sub 2}O{sub 3}, sapphire (single-crystal {alpha}-Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}), MgO, MgAl{sub 2}O{sub 4}, and fused silica, across air, water, and n-dodecane at room temperature and across silica at 2,000 K have been calculated from optical data using the Lifshitz theory. Spectroscopic ellipsometry was used to measure the photon energy dependence of the refractive index, n, and the extinction coefficient, k, in the visible and near-UV range on several important ceramic materials. This relatively simple, nondestructive technique has proved to yield reliable optical data on sintered, polycrystalline materials such as Si{sub 3}N{sub 4}, SiC, ZrO{sub 2}, Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}, and ZnO. For the other materials, Y{sub 2}O{sub 3}, sapphire, MgO, MgAl{sub 2}O{sub 4}, and fused silica, optical data from the literature were used to calculate the Hamaker constants. The calculated Hamaker constants were estimated to be accurate within {+-} 10%.

OSTI ID:
211691
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 79, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English