Abstract
The thermal properties of SiO2-Al2O3-Y2O3 glasses were investigated within a temperature range of 25-800 °C. This found that glass with a composition of 24Y2O3·21Al2O3·55SiO2 exhibits a thermal conductivity of 1.04 W/m K at room temperature, and thermal conductivity increases with temperature due to an increase in the amount of bridging oxygen. The thermal conductivity of glasses with a composition of xY2O3·21Al2O3·(79-x)SiO2, on the other hand, decreased with an increase in either the Y2O3 content or Al2O3/SiO2 ratio. This decrease in thermal conductivity was analyzed with respect to the decrease in phonon mean free path resulting from the increased non-bridging oxygen content, which revealed 24Y2O3·21Al2O3·55SiO2 to have the maximum thermal conductivity of 1.7 W/m K at 800 °C. Glass systems incorporating yttria can therefore be considered suitable sintering additives for highly thermally conducting ceramics such as silicon nitride.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-6 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Thermochimica Acta |
| Volume | 604 |
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| State | Published - 20 Mar 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
Keywords
- Oxide glasses
- SiO-YO-AlO glasses
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal diffusivity