Improved electromagnetic absorbing properties of Si3N4-SiC/SiO2 composite ceramics with multi-shell microstructure

Guopeng Zheng, Xiaowei Yin, Shanhua Liu, Xingmin Liu, Juanli Deng, Quan Li

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Abstract

Porous Si3N4-SiC composite ceramic was fabricated by infiltrating SiC coating with nano-scale crystals into porous β-Si3N4 ceramic via chemical vapor infiltration (CVI). Silica (SiO2) film was formed on the surface of rod-like Si3N4-SiC grains during oxidation at 1100°C in air. The as-received Si3N4-SiC/SiO2 composite ceramic attains a multi-shell microstructure, and exhibits reduced impedance mismatch, leading to excellent electromagnetic (EM) absorbing properties. The Si3N4-SiC/SiO2 fabricated by oxidation of Si3N4-SiC for 10h in air can achieve a reflection loss of -30dB (>99.9% absorption) at 8.7GHz when the sample thickness is 3.8mm. When the sample thickness is 3.5mm, reflection loss of Si3N4-SiC/SiO2 is lower than -10dB (>90% absorption) in the frequency range 8.3-12.4GHz, the effective absorption bandwidth is 4.1GHz.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2173-2180
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of the European Ceramic Society
Volume33
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2013

Keywords

  • Complex permittivity
  • Reflection loss
  • SiC
  • SiO

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