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Effects of Pressure during Preparation on the Grain Orientation of Ruddlesden–Popper Structured BaLa2Ti3O10 Ceramic

Xizhong Wang1, 2, Lei Guo1, 2, Hongbo Guo1, 2, Guohui Ma1, Shengkai Gong1, 2   

  1. 1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
    2  Beijing Key Laboratory for Advanced Functional Material and Thin Film Technology, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
  • Received:2013-03-18 Revised:2013-04-21 Online:2014-05-15 Published:2014-05-15
  • Contact: H. Guo
  • Supported by:

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51071013 and 51231001) and the National Basic Research Program of China (“973 Program”, No.2012CB625100).

Abstract:

As potential thermal barrier coating (TBC) materials, Ruddlesden–Popper structured BaLn2Ti3O10 (Ln = rare earth) compounds possess excellent phase stability and desirable thermo-physical properties as well as interesting anisotropic structure. In this paper, the effects of pressure during BaLa2Ti3O10 (BLT) bulk preparation on the grain orientation were investigated. BLT grains exhibited lamellar structure, but the grain orientation depended strongly on the existence of pressure during bulk preparation. When pressure was applied, BLT grains preferentially grew along pressing direction, leading to formation of the texture parallel to pressing direction, but BLT grain orientation became relatively random when pressure was absent. However, in the small scale area, BLT grains grew preferentially along c-axis with independence on pressure during preparation. Pressure affected BLT grain orientation at the rapid growth stage according to the grain growth model of BLT.