Additive for silicon nitride sintered bodies

Abstract

The invention discloses an additive for silicon nitride sintered bodies, which is prepared from the following components by weight percent: 29.5-65.2 percent of sintering aid and 34.8-70.5 percent of activating composite oxide, wherein the activating composite oxide is a compound formed by combining lithium oxide (Li2O), yttrium oxide (Y2O3), silicon dioxide (SiO2) and aluminium-containing compound. After the additive is added into a silicon nitride sintered body, the inter-granular phase components of a silicon nitride heating element is changed, the refractoriness of the silicon nitride sintered body sintered at normal pressure is enhanced, the mechanical property of the heating element at high temperature is improved and a heating element of the silicon nitride sintered body with the use temperature of 1,200-1,400 DEG C is obtained, the thermoconductivity is 21-32 W*m <-1>*K<-1>, the linear expansibility is 3.1*10<-6>-3.8*10<-6> / DEG C(40-800DEG C) and the density is over 98 percent. The invention realizes the normal-pressure low-temperature rapid-firing sintering of the silicon nitride heating element.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a heating element additive for a silicon nitride sintered body. Background technique [0002] Silicon nitride is an atomic crystal compound composed of nitrogen and silicon through strong covalent bonds. The heat of formation is 733.6kJ / mol. Compared with the combination of two nitrogen atoms to form nitrogen (N 2 ) is much lower than the 941.69kJ / mol released, so even if the sintering temperature is reached under the condition of no sintering aid, α-silicon nitride will decompose to generate nitrogen and free silicon without sintering. In the prior art, the decomposition of silicon nitride is suppressed by applying pressure or adding sintering aids to realize sintering. Commonly added sintering aids are oxides of rare earth elements, such as yttrium oxide and lanthanum oxide, which can effectively prevent the decomposition of Si3N4 during sintering. [0003] CN1229829A discloses a silicon nitride heating element and its manu...

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Problems solved by technology

The sintering temperature is high, and the heat-resistant specifications of the sintering furnace and its auxiliary devices need to be improved, which will greatly increase the cost of the sintering equipment. In addition, the high sintering temperature makes it difficult to use a continuous manufacturing process to prepare silicon nitride sintered bodies, which limits the sintered body. mass production

At present, there is no silicon nitride sintered body additive that can realize rapid sintering of silicon nitride sintered body under normal pressure or slightly positive pressure and under sintering conditions below 1500 °C

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