Carbon nanowires reinforced porous SiO 2 /3Al 2 O 3 ·2SiO 2 ceramics with tunable electromagnetic absorption properties

Yongpeng Dong, Xiaowei Yin, Hanjun Wei, Minghang Li, Zexin Hou, Hailong Xu, Laifei Cheng, Litong Zhang

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Abstract

Porous SiO 2 /3Al 2 O 3 ·2SiO 2 ceramics decorated with carbon nanowires (CNWs) were manufactured by catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CCVD) for wide absorption band and high absorption application. The results show that the as-prepared CNWs grow uniformly in porous SiO 2 /3Al 2 O 3 ·2SiO 2 ceramics to form the three dimensional(3D) structure. The content of CNWs can be effectively controlled by changing the weight of catalyst, and the dielectric properties of CNWs-SiO 2 /3Al 2 O 3 ·2SiO 2 composite ceramics can be tuned. As expected, the CNWs-SiO 2 /3Al 2 O 3 ·2SiO 2 composite ceramics possess wonderful electromagnetic (EM) absorption properties due to the effects of conductive loss, impedance match and dipoles polarization. It can be concluded that the minimum reflection coefficient (RC min ) of CNWs-SiO 2 /3Al 2 O 3 ·2SiO 2 composite ceramics reaches −31 dB at 9.1 GHz (which means 99.9% of EM wave powers are absorbed) and the effective absorption bandwidth (EAB) covers the whole X-band (8.2–12.4 GHz) at the thickness of 5.0 mm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11316-11324
Number of pages9
JournalCeramics International
Volume45
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jun 2019

Keywords

  • Carbon nanowires
  • Catalytic chemical vapor deposition
  • EM wave absorption properties
  • Porous SiO /3Al O ·2SiO ceramics

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