J Mater Sci Technol ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (8): 745-750.

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Complex Permittivity and Microwave Absorbing Property of Si3N4−SiC Composite Ceramic

Guopeng Zheng, Xiaowei Yin, Jie Wang, Mengluo Guo, Xi Wang   

  1. Science and Technology on Thermostructure Composite Materials Laboratory, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
  • Received:2011-12-06 Revised:2012-02-18 Online:2012-08-31 Published:2012-08-30
  • Contact: Xiaowei Yin
  • Supported by:

    the National University Student Innovation Program fund (No. 101069911), the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing in Northwestern Polytechnical University (No. KB200920), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 20110491683) and the 111 Project (B08040)

     

Abstract:

Si3N4-SiC composite ceramics were fabricated by chemical vapor infiltration using porous Si3N4 ceramic as preform. The average grain size of SiC was 30 nm. Relationship between SiC content and relative complex permittivity of Si3N4-SiC within the frequency range of 8.2-12.4 GHz (X-band) was investigated. The average real part of relative complex permittivity ε' of Si3N4-SiC increased from 3.7 to 14.9 and the relative imaginary part  ε'" increased from 0.017 to 13.4 when the content of SiC increased from 0 to 10 vol.%. The Si3N4-SiC ceramic with 3 vol.% SiC achieved a reflection loss below -10 dB (90% absorption) at 8.6-11.4 GHz, and the minimum value was -27.1 dB at 9.8 GHz when the sample thickness was 2.5 mm. The excellent microwave
absorbing abilities of Si3N4-SiC ceramic were attributed to the interfacial polarization at interface between Si3N4 and SiC and at grain boundary between SiC nanocrystals.

Key words: SiC, Si3N4, Dielectric properties, Reflection loss