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Title: High-temperature X-ray study of the cubic-tetragonal diffusionless phase transition in the ZrO[sub 2]-ErO[sub 1. 5] system: I, phase change between two forms of a tetragonal phase, t[prime]-ZrO[sub 2] and t[double prime]-ZrO[sub 2], in the compositionally homogeneous 14 mol% ErO[sub 1. 5]-ZrO[sub 2]

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Ceramic Society; (United States)
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  1. Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Yokohama (Japan). Research Lab. of Engineering Materials

The cubic-tetragonal phase transition of 14 mol% ErO[sub 1.5]-ZrO[sub 2] was investigated through high-temperature powder X-ray diffraction. A new tetragonal form without tetragonality, t[double prime]-ZrO[sub 2], was taken into consideration, although only two forms of t- and t[prime]-ZrO[sub 2] have previously been distinguished. The metastable t[double prime]-ZrO[sub 2], which could be obtained by rapid quenching of 14 mol% ErO[sub 1.5]-ZrO[sub 2] melts, partially changed into t[prime]-ZrO[sub 2] through a thermal activation process above 500C. The t[prime]-ZrO[sub 2] continuously changed into t[double prime]-ZrO[sub 2] or transformed into cubic phase at about 1,200C. The t[prime]-t[double prime] change occurred reversibly below 1,100C.

OSTI ID:
6239152
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Ceramic Society; (United States), Vol. 76:3; ISSN 0002-7820
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English