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The use of thin Film Substrates to Study Enhanced Solid-State Phase Transformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

PAUL G. Kotula ,
Dwight D. Erickson  and
C. Barry Carter
PAUL G. Kotula
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455
Dwight D. Erickson
Affiliation:
3M Company, 3M Center, St. Paul, MN 55144
C. Barry Carter
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Abstract

A thin-film substrate geometry is described for the study of enhanced or seeded solid-state phase transformations. As an example of this approach, thin films of hematite have been used as substrates for the study of the seeded phase transformation of a boehmite-derived transition-alumina to α-A12O3. The hematite films were grown on bulk (0001) α-A12O3 single crystal substrates by pulsed-laser ablation. A layer of a boehmite sol was then spin-coated onto the thin film. The assemblages were then heated to 950°C, or 1000°C in order to induce the phase transformation. Specimens were imaged in cross section by transmission electron microscopy. No transformation was observed for specimens heated to 950°C. In specimens heated to 1000°C, the transition alumina was found to transform to alpha-alumina, starting at the surface of the hematite film, via solid-state heteroepitaxy. In this case, islands, growing out from the hematite film into the transition alumina layer, were observed.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 319: Symposia CB – Defect-Interface Interactions , 1993 , 57
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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