Utilize injection forming to prepare the method for yttrium aluminum garnet base transparent ceramic
Technical field
The present invention relates to the crystalline ceramics preparing technical field, particularly a kind of novel method of utilizing injection forming to prepare yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) base transparent ceramic.
Background technology
Neodymium doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) monocrystalline is that present performance is best, the output maximum, and the laser host material that purposes is the widest, but the natural characteristics of single crystal growing technology is restricted its performance and range of application.The material supply section scholar rises in the sixties in 20th century and just attempts with the operation material of crystalline ceramics as solid statelaser, but effect is all undesirable.Up to patent JP05-286761, JP05-286762, JP05-294722, JP05-294723, JP05-294724, after JP05-235462 etc. the issue, the ceramic laser operation material that with the Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics is representative is owing to it has monocrystalline at aspects such as technology of preparing and material properties, the glass laser material incomparable advantage has received people's very big concern, and obtained developing rapidly.
The method for preparing the Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics mainly contains two kinds: a kind of employing solid state reaction-vacuum sintering technique; Another method is to synthesize the active Nd:YAG nano-powder of high sintering with wet chemistry method earlier, adopts vacuum sintering technique to prepare the Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics then.Nineteen ninety-five, the A.Ikesue reported first with the synthetic active Y of high sintering of wet chemistry method
2O
3, Al
2O
3And Nd
2O
3Powder, adopt solid state reaction and vacuum sintering technique to prepare Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics [A.Ikesue then, T.Kinoshita, K.Kamata, et al, Fabrication and optical properties of high-performancepolycrystalline Nd:YAG ceramics for solid-state lasers, J.Am.Ceram.Soc., 1995,78 (4): 1033-1040], and first realized the continuous laser output of Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics.Wet chemistry method prepares the Nd:YAG laser ceramics and obtained important breakthrough in 1999, day Benshen island (Konoshima) chemical company adopt a kind of improved urea precipitator method prepare particle size evenly, Nd:YAG nano-powder [the patent JP10-101333 of good dispersity, JP10-101334, JP10-101411, JP10-114519], prepare high-quality Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics by vacuum sintering technique, and realized powerful laser output.
The Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics not only has the light transmission and the laser activity that can compare favourably with the laser monocrystalline, but and have the large size preparation similar and realize high-concentration dopant to laser glass, especially also have distinctive excellent high-temperature mechanical property of structural ceramics and the feature that realizes composite structure easily, so laser ceramics is considered to one of the most promising laserable material of 21 century.2006, U.S. Lao Lunsi livermore national laboratory utilizes day Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics of Benshen island chemical company production, realized the solid state heat capacity laser output of 67kW, cause showing great attention to of various countries Department of Defense, made laser ceramic material substitute the important option that the laser monocrystalline becomes US military Solid State Laser weapon.The material that uses under high-end laser weapon usefulness and the particular surroundings often needs to have characteristics such as large size, complicated shape and composite structure, adopts conventional dry-pressing formed very difficult realization.Therefore, explore the novel forming method that is fit to preparation yttrium aluminum garnet base transparent ceramic and have crucial meaning.
That injection forming is particularly suitable for preparing is complex-shaped, the sample of large size and composite structure.Injection forming and nano powder preparation technology, solid state reaction sintering technology and vacuum sintering technique are combined preparation yttrium aluminum garnet base transparent ceramic, are very promising approach.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of method of utilizing slip-casting shaping process to prepare the yttrium aluminum garnet base transparent ceramic, it is characterized in that the concrete processing step of this method comprises:
(1) material choice
The raw material that the present invention uses can be:
(a) α-Al
2O
3And Y
2O
3Press that YAG forms preparation or by α-Al
2O
3, Y
2O
3And RE
2O
3Press RE:YAG and form preparation, wherein RE
2O
3Be Nd
2O
3, Yb
2O
3, Cr
2O
3, Er
2O
3, Sc
2O
3, La
2O
3, Tm
2O
3, Ho
2O
3, Sm
2O
3, Lu
2O
3, Ce
2O
3And Pr
2O
3In any one or a few combination; Or (b) comprise that with wet chemical method the YAG of the precipitator method, sol-gel method, combustion synthesis method preparation or RE:YAG powder (wherein RE is any one or several combination in Nd, Yb, Cr, Er, Sc, La, Tm, Ho, Sm, Lu, Ce and the Pr element) are as oxide ceramic powder body.
(2) sintering aid is selected
Sintering aid can be LiF, NaF, MgF
2, CaF
2, AlF
3, Li
2O, Na
2O, K
2O, CaO, MgO, B
2O
3, Ga
2O
3, SiO
2, GeO
2And any one or several combination among the TEOS (tetraethoxy), the addition of sintering aid is 10
2~10
6Ppm.
(3) pulp preparation
After earlier oxide ceramic powder body, non-aqueous solvent, sintering aid and dispersion agent ball milling being mixed 6~8h, add binding agent, softening agent and defoamer, ball milling mixes 2~4h and prepares non-water-based slurry.Wherein slurry is made up of following mass percent: oxide ceramic powder body 40~70%, and sintering aid 0.01~1%, dispersion agent 0.005~1%, binding agent 0.01~5%, softening agent 0.01~3%, defoamer 0.005~0.5%, surplus is a solvent.
(4) injection forming
In mould behind the injection forming, adopt two step desiccating methods to prepare the biscuit of ceramics and the demoulding: the first step drying temperature is 20~40 ℃, and be 2~48h time of drying with the slurry of step (3) preparation; The second step drying temperature is 60~90 ℃, and drying temperature is 2~24h.
(5) ceramic post sintering
The biscuit of ceramics of step (4) preparation is carried out the pre-burning processing in retort furnace: temperature rise rate is 1~10 ℃/min, and calcined temperature is 500~1200 ℃, and soaking time is 1~10h, to get rid of the organism in the biscuit.Biscuit sintering in the vacuum tungsten coil furnace after pre-burning handled, comprising: the speed with 10~20 ℃/min is warming up to 1000 ℃ from room temperature earlier, is warming up to 1650~1850 ℃ and be incubated 1~200h with 0.5~10 ℃/min then, and the vacuum tightness during insulation is higher than 10
-3Pa.The crystalline ceramics that vacuum sintering obtains carries out anneal in air or oxygen atmosphere, annealing temperature is 1300~1600 ℃, and soaking time is 2~100h.
The purity of described raw material and sintering aid all is higher than 99.9%.
Described non-aqueous solvent is any one or the wherein several combination in methyl alcohol, ethanol, ethylene glycol, acetone, the butanone and in the dimethylbenzene.Because of the biscuit rate of drying of non-aqueous solvent preparation fast, smooth surface, microtexture is even, good mechanical performance can make the quality of crystalline ceramics be well controlled.
Described dispersion agent is any one in menhaden fish oil (MFO) polyacrylic acid (PAA) and the glyceryl ester, and these dispersion agents can be adsorbed on solid particles surface, and the space steric effect of generation can effectively stop between particle and assemble mutually.
Described binding agent is any one in polyvinyl butyral acetal (PVB) and the acrylic resin, and these two kinds of binding agents self solidify to form the three-dimensional resinous framework by the enwrapped granule surface, give the biscuit certain intensity.
Described softening agent is any one in polyoxyethylene glycol (PEG), phthalandione dibutylester (DBP) and the butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP), plasticizer molecule can be inserted in the binding agent molecular chain, thereby reduce the rigidity of binding agent molecule, improve the plasticity of biscuit of ceramics.
Described defoamer is an organic silicon modified by polyether, and this defoamer very easily is adsorbed in the liquid bubble surface, reduces the local surface tension and the surface viscosity of bubble strongly, weakens the disturbance rejection ability of bubble, destroys its stability, impels bubble to discharge liquid level.
Used ball grinder and ball milling grinding ball material is aluminum oxide or zirconia ceramics during the described ball milling of step a.
The moulding stock that injection forming is used in the described step (b) is any one in glass, gypsum, pottery, metal or the plastics.
Described injection forming be direct once shaped prepare the biscuit of one-component or repeatedly moulding preparation have the biscuit of the composite structure of layered composite structure, nucleocapsid structure.(seeing embodiment 4,5 for details)
The present invention adopts injection forming, is particularly suitable for preparing the ceramics sample of complex-shaped, large size and composite structure, has widened the preparation approach of crystalline ceramics greatly.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1 is the photo in kind of YAG crystalline ceramics among the embodiment 1
Fig. 2 is the straight line transmittance curve of YAG crystalline ceramics among the embodiment 1
Fig. 3 is the fracture apperance photo of YAG crystalline ceramics among the embodiment 1
Fig. 4 is the photo in kind of 2.0at%Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics among the embodiment 2
Fig. 5 is the straight line transmittance curve of 2.0at%Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics among the embodiment 2
Embodiment
Embodiment 1
With the 25.4904g median size is α-Al of 300nm
2O
3Powder, 33.8715g median size are the Y of 3 μ m
2O
3Powder, 0.3562g tetraethoxy (TEOS) and 0.0594g menhaden fish oil (MFO) are put into the high purity aluminium oxide ball grinder, add high purity aluminium oxide abrading-ball 200g, dehydrated alcohol 34ml, then behind the ball milling mixing 8h, after adding 0.1188g polyvinyl butyral acetal (PVB), 0.1782g polyoxyethylene glycol (PEG) and 0.1484g organic silicon modified by polyether, continue ball milling 2h, obtain the injection forming ceramic size.The slurry that makes is carried out injection forming, and the biscuit after the slip casting at 70 ℃ of dry 12h, is peeled off from mould then earlier at 30 ℃ of dry 24h, obtains the biscuit of ceramics that thickness is about 4mm.The biscuit of ceramics of preparation carries out pre-burning in retort furnace handles: temperature rise rate is 5 ℃/min, and calcined temperature is 600 ℃, and soaking time is 4h, to get rid of the organism in the biscuit.Sintering is to carry out in the vacuum tungsten coil furnace, concrete sintering mechanism is as follows: the speed with 10 ℃/min is warming up to 1000 ℃, speed with 5 ℃/min heats up 1450 ℃ then, then be warming up to 1770 ℃ and be incubated 30 hours with the speed of 2 ℃/min, speed with 10 ℃/min is cooled to 1000 ℃, furnace cooling below 1000 ℃ from 1770 ℃ then.The YAG pottery that vacuum sintering obtains anneal in the Si-Mo rod stove, mechanism of anneal is: rise to 1450 ℃ and be incubated 20h with 5 ℃/min from room temperature, then from 1450 ℃ of furnace cooling.With surface grinding machine and diamond paste pottery is carried out attenuate at last and be polished to 1.5mm thick, obtain the YAG crystalline ceramics sample of relative density>99.9%.Fig. 1 is its photo in kind, and Fig. 2 is its straight line transmittance curve, and Fig. 3 is the microstructure appearance synoptic diagram of its fracture.
Embodiment 2
With the 25.4904g median size is α-Al of 300nm
2O
3Powder, 33.1955g median size are the Y of 3 μ m
2O
3Powder, 0.5047g median size are the Nd of 250nm
2O
3Powder, 0.3582g tetraethoxy (TEOS) and 0.0895g menhaden fish oil (MFO) are put into the high purity aluminium oxide ball grinder, add high purity aluminium oxide abrading-ball 200g, dehydrated alcohol 36ml, then behind the ball milling mixing 10h, after adding 0.2985g polyvinyl butyral acetal (PVB), 0.1194g butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) and 0.0597g organic silicon modified by polyether, continue ball milling 2h, obtain the injection forming ceramic size.The slurry that makes is carried out injection forming, and the biscuit after the slip casting at 80 ℃ of dry 10h, is peeled off from mould then earlier at 25 ℃ of dry 24h, obtains the biscuit of ceramics that thickness is about 4mm.The biscuit of ceramics of preparation carries out pre-burning in retort furnace handles: temperature rise rate is 2.5 ℃/min, and calcined temperature is 800 ℃, and soaking time is 1h, to get rid of the organism in the biscuit.Sintering is to carry out in vacuum oven, concrete sintering mechanism is as follows: the speed with 20 ℃/min is warming up to 1000 ℃, speed with 5 ℃/min heats up 1400 ℃ then, then be warming up to 1760 ℃ and be incubated 50 hours with the speed of 2 ℃/min, speed with 20 ℃/min is cooled to 1000 ℃, furnace cooling below 1000 ℃ from 1760 ℃ then.The YAG pottery that vacuum sintering obtains anneal in the Si-Mo rod stove, mechanism of anneal is: rise to 1450 ℃ and be incubated 20h with 5 ℃/min from room temperature, then from 1450 ℃ of furnace cooling.With surface grinding machine and diamond paste pottery is carried out attenuate at last and be polished to 1.5mm thick, obtain the 2.0at%Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics sample of relative density>99.9%.Fig. 4 is its photo in kind, and Fig. 5 is its straight line transmittance curve.
Embodiment 3
With the 25.4903g median size is α-Al of 300nm
2O
3Powder, 33.5328g median size are the Y of 3 μ m
2O
3Powder, 0.5047g median size are the Er of 7 μ m
2O
3Powder, 0.4800g tetraethoxy (TEOS) and 0.1188g polyacrylic acid (PAA) are put into the high purity aluminium oxide ball grinder, add high purity aluminium oxide abrading-ball 180g, dehydrated alcohol 30ml, behind the ball milling mixing 10h, after adding 0.0594g polyvinyl butyral acetal (PVB), 0.0594g butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) and 0.0297g organic silicon modified by polyether, continue ball milling 2h, obtain the injection forming ceramic size.The slurry that makes is carried out injection forming, and the biscuit after the slip casting is peeled off from mould at 25 ℃ of dry 24h, obtains the biscuit of ceramics that thickness is about 3mm.The biscuit of ceramics of preparation carries out pre-burning in retort furnace handles: temperature rise rate is 2.5 ℃/min, and calcined temperature is 800 ℃, and soaking time is 2h, to get rid of the organism in the biscuit.Sintering is to carry out in vacuum oven, concrete sintering mechanism is as follows: the speed with 20 ℃/min is warming up to 1000 ℃, speed with 5 ℃/min heats up 1400 ℃ then, then be warming up to 1780 ℃ and be incubated 10 hours with the speed of 2 ℃/min, speed with 20 ℃/min is cooled to 1000 ℃, furnace cooling below 1000 ℃ from 1780 ℃ then.The YAG pottery that vacuum sintering obtains anneal in the Si-Mo rod stove, mechanism of anneal is: rise to 1450 ℃ and be incubated 20h with 5 ℃/min from room temperature, then from 1450 ℃ of furnace cooling.With surface grinding machine and diamond paste pottery is carried out attenuate at last and be polished to 1mm thick, obtain the 1at%Er:YAG crystalline ceramics sample of relative density>99.9%.
Embodiment 4
Respectively according to embodiment 1 and two kinds of slurries of embodiment 2 preparations.The slurry that embodiment 1 is made carries out injection forming, 25 ℃ of not demouldings of dry 10h, make sizing material forming but incomplete drying, be cast in the slurry of embodiment 2 preparations top also earlier at 25 ℃ of dry 24h, at 65 ℃ of dry 10h, from mould, peel off the biscuit of ceramics that obtains layered composite structure then.The biscuit of ceramics of preparation carries out pre-burning in retort furnace handles: temperature rise rate is 5 ℃/min, and calcined temperature is 700 ℃, and soaking time is 4h, to get rid of the organism in the biscuit.Sintering is to carry out in vacuum oven, concrete sintering mechanism is as follows: the speed with 20 ℃/min is warming up to 1000 ℃, be warming up to 1760 ℃ and be incubated 20 hours with the speed of 5 ℃/min then, the speed with 20 ℃/min is cooled to 1000 ℃, furnace cooling below 1000 ℃ from 1760 ℃ then.Composite structure YAG/Nd:YAG pottery anneal in the Si-Mo rod stove that vacuum sintering obtains, mechanism of anneal is: rise to 1450 ℃ and be incubated 20h with 5 ℃/min from room temperature, then from 1450 ℃ of furnace cooling.With surface grinding machine and diamond paste pottery is carried out attenuate and polished finish at last, obtain fine and close layered composite structure YAG/Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics.
Embodiment 5
Respectively according to embodiment 1 and two kinds of slurries of embodiment 2 preparations.The slurry that embodiment 2 is made is an injection forming in the cylindrical die of 20mm at internal diameter, earlier at 25 ℃ of dry 24h, then at 65 ℃ of dry 10h, peels off from mould and obtains columniform biscuit of ceramics.This biscuit of ceramics is put in the middle of the cylindrical die that internal diameter is 50mm, the slurry that embodiment 1 is made inject columniform biscuit of ceramics around, at 25 ℃ of dry 24h, at 70 ℃ of dry 10h, from mould, peel off the biscuit of ceramics that obtains having nucleocapsid structure then earlier.According to technology pre-treatment in retort furnace successively, vacuum sintering, annealing and the polished finish of embodiment 5, finally obtain fine and close YAG/Nd:YAG crystalline ceramics then with nucleocapsid structure.
Embodiment 6
With the 25.3629g median size is α-Al of 300nm
2O
3Powder, 33.8715g median size are the Y of 3 μ m
2O
3Powder, 0.1900g median size are the Cr of about 1 μ m
2O
3Powder, 0.4457g tetraethoxy (TEOS), 0.0475g calcium oxide (CaO) powder and 0.0895g polyacrylic acid (PAA) are put into the high purity aluminium oxide ball grinder, add high purity aluminium oxide abrading-ball 200g, dehydrated alcohol 35ml, then behind the ball milling mixing 10h, after adding 0.1188g acrylic resin, 0.0594g phthalandione dibutylester (DBP) and 0.0297g organic silicon modified by polyether, continue ball milling 2h, obtain the injection forming ceramic size.The slurry that makes is carried out injection forming in glassware, the biscuit after the slip casting at 65 ℃ of dry 10h, is peeled off from mould then earlier at 25 ℃ of dry 24h, obtains the biscuit of ceramics that thickness is about 4mm.The biscuit of ceramics of preparation carries out pre-burning in retort furnace handles: temperature rise rate is 5 ℃/min, and calcined temperature is 600 ℃, and soaking time is 4h, to get rid of the organism in the biscuit.Sintering is to carry out in vacuum oven, concrete sintering mechanism is as follows: the speed with 20 ℃/min is warming up to 1000 ℃, speed with 5 ℃/min heats up 1400 ℃ then, then be warming up to 1760 ℃ and be incubated 50 hours with the speed of 2 ℃/min, speed with 20 ℃/min is cooled to 1000 ℃, furnace cooling below 1000 ℃ from 1760 ℃ then.The ceramics sample that vacuum sintering obtains is anneal in the Si-Mo rod stove, and mechanism of anneal is: rise to 1450 ℃ and be incubated 20h with 5 ℃/min from room temperature, then from 1450 ℃ of furnace cooling.With surface grinding machine and diamond paste pottery is carried out attenuate and polishes obtaining the 0.5at%Cr:YAG crystalline ceramics at last.
Embodiment 7
With the 25.3629g median size is α-Al of 300nm
2O
3Powder, 33.5328g median size are the Y of 3 μ m
2O
3Powder, the 0.1900g median size is about the Cr of 1 μ m
2O
3Powder, the 0.5911g median size is about the Yb of 5 μ m
2O
3Powder, 0.0298g calcium oxide (CaO) powder, 0.3581g tetraethoxy (TEOS) and 0.0597g menhaden fish oil (MFO) are put into the high purity aluminium oxide ball grinder, add high purity aluminium oxide abrading-ball 200g, dehydrated alcohol 36ml is then behind the ball milling mixing 10h, behind adding 0.0597g polyvinyl butyral acetal (PVB), 0.0895g polyoxyethylene glycol (PEG) and the 0.0298g organic silicon modified by polyether, continue ball milling 2h, obtain the injection forming ceramic size.The slurry that makes is carried out injection forming in glassware, the biscuit after the slip casting at 65 ℃ of dry 10h, is peeled off from mould then earlier at 25 ℃ of dry 24h, obtains the biscuit of ceramics that thickness is about 4mm.The biscuit of ceramics of preparation carries out pre-burning in retort furnace handles: temperature rise rate is 5 ℃/min, and calcined temperature is 600 ℃, and soaking time is 1h, to get rid of the organism in the biscuit.Sintering is to carry out in vacuum oven, concrete sintering mechanism is as follows: the speed with 20 ℃/min is warming up to 1000 ℃, speed with 5 ℃/min heats up 1400 ℃ then, then be warming up to 1770 ℃ and be incubated 30 hours with the speed of 2 ℃/min, speed with 20 ℃/min is cooled to 1000 ℃, furnace cooling below 1000 ℃ from 1770 ℃ then.The ceramics sample that vacuum sintering obtains is anneal in the Si-Mo rod stove, and mechanism of anneal is: rise to 1500 ℃ and be incubated 20h with 5 ℃/min from room temperature, then from 1500 ℃ of furnace cooling.With surface grinding machine and diamond paste pottery is carried out attenuate and polishes obtaining 0.5at%Cr, 1.0at%Yb:YAG crystalline ceramics at last.
Embodiment 8
Take by weighing 30g and put into the high purity aluminium oxide ball grinder with YAG nano-powder, 0.2250g tetraethoxy (TEOS) and 0.0297g menhaden fish oil (MFO) that the median size of coprecipitation method preparation is about 100nm, add high purity aluminium oxide abrading-ball 180g, dehydrated alcohol 45ml, then behind the ball milling mixing 10h, after adding 0.1188g polyvinyl butyral acetal (PVB), 0.0594g butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) and 0.0297g organic silicon modified by polyether, continue ball milling 2h, obtain the injection forming ceramic size.The slurry that makes is carried out injection forming, and the biscuit after the slip casting at 70 ℃ of dry 12h, is peeled off from mould then earlier at 30 ℃ of dry 24h, obtains the biscuit of ceramics that thickness is about 4mm.The biscuit of ceramics of preparation carries out pre-burning in retort furnace handles: temperature rise rate is 5 ℃/min, and calcined temperature is 600 ℃, and soaking time is 4h, to get rid of the organism in the biscuit.Sintering is to carry out in vacuum oven, concrete sintering mechanism is as follows: the speed with 10 ℃/min is warming up to 1000 ℃, be warming up to 1750 ℃ and be incubated 10 hours with the speed of 2 ℃/min then, the speed with 20 ℃/min is cooled to 1000 ℃, furnace cooling below 1000 ℃ from 1750 ℃ then.The YAG pottery that vacuum sintering obtains anneal in the Si-Mo rod stove, mechanism of anneal is: rise to 1500 ℃ and be incubated 10h with 5 ℃/min from room temperature, then from 1450 ℃ of furnace cooling.With surface grinding machine and diamond paste pottery is carried out attenuate at last and be polished to 1mm thick, obtain fine and close YAG crystalline ceramics.