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  • Low temperature synthesis of AlN nanopowders by the microwave assisted combustion method 
  • Jung-Min Leea,b, Byung-Ik Kima, Jong-Heun Leeb, Ki-Hyeon Kimc and Myoung-Pyo Chuna,*
  • a Electronic Components Center, Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology, Seoul 153-801, Korea b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea c Department of Physics, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 712-749, Korea
Abstract
Aluminum nitride (AlN) powder was calcined at low temperature through the carbothermal reduction nitridation (CRN) assisted by microwave heating. Their phase formation and microstructure were investigated with X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The starting materials such as aluminum nitrate nonahydrate (Al(NO3)(3)center dot 9H(2)O), urea (NH2CONH2) and glucose anhydrous (C6H12O6) were dissolved by stirring with a magnetic bar at 100 degrees C for 25 min and then the precursor solution was dried at oven. The mixing molar ratio of urea to aluminum nitrate = 1.6 and that of glucose to aluminum nitrate = 1.0 were selected, respectively. The dried precursor mixtures were calcined at 1200 similar to 1500 degrees C for 60 min. in N-2 atmosphere by a microwave heating furnace and then carburized at 700 degrees C for 2 hrs in air. The homogeneous AlN powders, free of alumina, were obtained by calcining at temperatures above 1300 degrees C. The particle size of AlN powder increases monotonically with increasing the calcination temperature. From TEM micrographs, the AlN powders calcined at 1300 degrees C and 1500 degrees C were found to be around 30 nm and 90 nm, respectively.

Keywords: Aluminum nitride (AlN); Nano particle; Synthesis; Microwave combustion; carbothermal

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  • 2013; 14(6): 707-711

    Published on Dec 31, 2013

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