On the occurrence of a metastable tetragonal t′-phase in a ZrO<SUB>2</SUB> −13.6 mole % MgO ceramic and its microscopic thermal evolution
The time-differential perturbed angular correlation technique has been used to investigate the thermal behavior of a ZrO 2 −13.6 mole % MgO ceramic between room temperature and 1423 K. Two different quadrupole hyperfine interactions corresponding to a tetragonal structure have been found to result o...
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| Formato: | Articulo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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1993
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| Acceso en línea: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/139519 |
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| Sumario: | The time-differential perturbed angular correlation technique has been used to investigate the thermal behavior of a ZrO 2 −13.6 mole % MgO ceramic between room temperature and 1423 K. Two different quadrupole hyperfine interactions corresponding to a tetragonal structure have been found to result on cooling the ceramic from the single-phase cubic field. One of them agrees with that depicting the pure t -ZrO 2 tetragonal phase and the other one has been interpreted as describing a high-MgO-content nontransformable t '–ZrO 2 phase. As temperature increases, the latter gives rise to a similar but fluctuating interaction related to the oxygen vacancies mobility and which shows a thermal behavior analogous to that already reported for the stabilized cubic ZrO 2 . Above 1100 K these dynamic t '-sites transform into pure tetragonal ones which behave ordinarily, suffering the t → m phase transition when cooling to room temperature. Differences found between TDPAC results and information drawn from other techniques are discussed. |
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