@article{89e32829ffde496fba7e736e9d1c8f4a,
title = "The Change of X-ray Diffraction Peak Width during in situ Conventional Sintering of Nanoscale Powders",
abstract = "Diffraction peaks of nanoscale particles of 3 mol% yttria-stabilized zirconia become sharper as the powder sinters. The reduction in the peak width is correlated with the increase in density. The sharpening of the peak agrees reasonably well with the remaining free surface area as the sample sinters. Therefore, high curvature of the free surface of the pores is assumed to lead to peak broadening (the grain boundaries that grow at the expense of the free surfaces of the pores do not have this curvature). The change in the grain size during sintering does not make a significant contribution to peak width.",
author = "Lebrun, {Jean Marie} and Jha, {Shikhar K.} and Naik, {Kiran S.} and Seymour, {Kevin C.} and Kriven, {Waltraud M.} and Rishi Raj",
note = "Funding Information: We are pleased to acknowledge assistance and discussion with Evguenia Karapetrova and Christian M. Schlepuetz, physicists at the beam line 33BMC at the Argonne Photon Source, where these experiments have been performed. We are thankful to Prof. W. M. Kriven and her team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who developed the Quadrupole Lamp Furnace used in these experiments. The data analysis was performed by Lebrun, while Jha assisted in the experiments at the APS and carried out the microstructural observations. Lebrun was an employee of the University of Colorado Boulder at the time of experimentation and paper preparation. He was supported by the Office of Naval Research under the direction of Dr. Lawrence Kabacoff and Dr. Antti Makinen, under the grant number N00014-12-1-0710. Raj and Jha, and the development of facilities for these flash experiments at the University of Colorado were supported by the Basic Energy Sciences Division of the Department of Energy under grant number DE-FG02-07ER46403. Use of the Advanced Photon Source, an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory, was supported by the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 The American Ceramic Society.",
year = "2016",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1111/jace.14112",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "99",
pages = "765--768",
journal = "Journal of the American Ceramic Society",
issn = "0002-7820",
publisher = "American Chemical Society",
number = "3",
}