Selective Laser Sintering of Zirconia with Micro-Scale Features

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1999
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Harlan, Nicole
Park, Seok-Min
Bourell, David L.
Beaman, Joseph J.
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Recent work in Selective Laser Sintering of ceramics at the University of Texas at Austin demonstrates the capability to produce zirconia parts with fine features. Zirconia powder was pre-processed into spherical particles, laser sintered with a sacrificial polymer binder, infiltrated and post-sintered to higher density. Optical micrographs show that hole sizes of 180 /-tm are possible in fully ceramic components.

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