TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Eberstein, Markus A1 - Reinsch, Stefan A1 - Schiller, Wolfgang Arno A1 - Deubener, J. A1 - Thiel, A. T1 - Effect of rigid inclusions on sintering of low temperature co-fired ceramics KW - Sintering KW - Glass Matrix Composites KW - Rigid Inclusion KW - Effective Viscosity KW - Kinetic Modelling KW - LTCC PY - 2007 SN - 1753-3562 SN - 0017-1050 SN - 0031-9090 SN - 1750-6697 VL - 48 IS - 4 SP - 259 EP - 266 PB - Society of Glass Technology CY - Sheffield AN - OPUS4-16211 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Reinsch, Stefan A1 - Eberstein, Markus A1 - Deubener, J. A1 - Thiel, A. A1 - Schiller, Wolfgang Arno T1 - Effects of dispersed Al2O3 particles on sintering of LTCC N2 - The sintering of Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics prepared from alumoborosilicate glass- and Al2O3 powders of similar small particle size was studied by dilatometry, heating microscopy, microstructure analysis, glass- and effective viscosity measurements. The steric effect of Al3O3 inclusions was studied using a gnon-reactiveh model composite. With increasing Al3O3 volume fraction (Φ ≤ 0.45), sintering decelerates and its final stage shifts to higher temperature. The attainable shrinkage is reduced as Al2O3 particle clusters bearing residual pores become more frequent. The kinetics of sintering could be described formally superposing the weighed contributions of differentially sized and randomly composed glass-crystal particle clusters and assuming a sintering rate controlled by the effective matrix viscosity, which increases with Φ and with progressive wetting of Al2O3 particles during densification. The "reactive" model composite shows significant dissolution of Al2O3 into the glass, which has two opposed effects on sintering: reducing Φ and increasing glass viscosity. For the present case (Φ = 0.25), the latter effect dominates and sintering is retarded by Al2O3 dissolution. Crystallization of wollastonite starts after full densification. Dissolution of Al2O3 was found to promote the subsequent growth of anorthite. KW - LTCC KW - Glass matrix composites KW - Al2O3-inclusions KW - Sintering kinetics PY - 2005 SN - 1022-6680 SN - 1662-8985 VL - 39-40 SP - 375 EP - 380 PB - Trans Tech Publ. CY - Zurich AN - OPUS4-18441 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Thiel, A. T1 - Viskosität in sinternden Glasmatrix-Kompositen T2 - 80. Glastechnische Tagung und 8th Int. Conference " Advances in Fusion and Processing of Glass" CY - Dresden, Germany DA - 2006-06-12 PY - 2006 AN - OPUS4-12417 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Eberstein, Markus A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Reinsch, Stefan A1 - Rabe, Torsten A1 - Schiller, Wolfgang Arno A1 - Thiel, A. A1 - Deubener, J. T1 - Kinetic Modeling of LTCC-Shrinkage T2 - 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Ceramic Interconnect and Ceramic Microsystems Technologies (CICMT 2007) CY - Denver, CO, USA DA - 2007-04-23 KW - LTCC KW - Glass matrix composites KW - Inclusions KW - Sintering kinetics KW - Modeling PY - 2007 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - American Ceramic Soc. CY - Denver AN - OPUS4-14948 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eberstein, Markus A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Reinsch, Stefan A1 - Rabe, Torsten A1 - Schiller, Wolfgang Arno A1 - Thiel, A. A1 - Deubener, J. T1 - Kinetic Modeling of LTCC Shrinkage: Effect of Alumina Content N2 - We studied sintering of LTCC-type glass matrix composites (GMCs) consisting of small glass and alumina particles of equal size. Primarily, crystals act as rigid inclusions, decelerating the densification rate. In later stages, they also dissolve, partially increasing the viscosity. Release of alumina finally induces crystallization of alumosilicates, which enables post-firing stability. To study both effects, two model GMCs were prepared: an α-Al2O3 + barium alumoborosilicate glass (BABS)–GMC, which shows neither significant dissolution nor crystallization, and an α-Al2O3 + calcium alumoborosilicate glass (CABS)–GMC, which dissolves readily and promotes crystallization. The kinetics of shrinkage for both GMC were modeled by utilizing Frenkel theory for the early stage and Mackenzie–Shuttleworth theory for the late stage, assuming that sintering is superimposed by the weighted contributions of triparticle glass–crystal clusters, their random occurrence (ideal mixing), and a shrinkage rate controlled by the GMC effective viscosity. In agreement with modeling, the experimental results showed that the shrinkage rate of BABS–GMC decreases progressively for crystal volume fractions Φ > 0.15. The attainable shrinkage is reduced by up to 8% for Φ = 0.45. For the CABS–GMC with Φ = 0.25, a reduction of Φ to 0.20 was evident due to partial α-Al2O3 dissolution. This effect was found able to increase the sintering temperature by ~50–60 K. KW - LTCC KW - Glas Matrix Composites KW - Inclusions KW - Sintering Kinetics KW - Modeling PY - 2007 SN - 1551-4897 VL - 4 IS - 4 SP - 173 EP - 180 CY - Washington, DC AN - OPUS4-16506 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Reinsch, Stefan A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Eberstein, Markus A1 - Deubener, J. A1 - Thiel, A. A1 - Schiller, Wolfgang Arno ED - J.G. Heinrich, ED - C.G. Aneziris, T1 - Effect of dispersed Al2O3 particles on sintering of glass matrix composites T2 - 10th International Conference of the European Ceramic Society CY - Berlin DA - 2007-06-17 KW - LTCC KW - Glass matrix composites KW - Inclusions KW - Sintering kinetics KW - Modelling PY - 2007 SN - 3-87264-022-4 SP - 290 EP - 295 PB - Göller CY - Baden-Baden AN - OPUS4-17445 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Witt, Jens A1 - Narbonneau, F. A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Krebber, Katerina A1 - De Jonckheere, J. A1 - Jeanne, M. A1 - Kinet, D. A1 - Paquet, B. A1 - Depré, A. A1 - D´Angelo, L.T. A1 - Thiel, T. A1 - Logier, R. ED - Santos, J.L. ED - Culshaw, B. ED - López-Higuera, J.M. ED - MacPherson, W.N. T1 - Smart medical textiles with embedded optical fibre sensors for continuous monitoring of respiratory movements during MRI N2 - We report on three respiration sensors based on pure optical technologies developed during the FP6 EU project OFSETH. The developed smart medical textiles can sense elongation up to 3%, while maintaining the stretching properties of the textile substrates for a good comfort of the patient. The sensors, based on silica and polymer fibre, are developed for monitoring of patients during MRI examination. The OFSETH harness allows a continuous measurement of respiration movements while all vitals organs are free for medical staff actions. The sensors were tested in MRI environment and on healthy adults. T2 - 4th European workshop on optical fibre sensors CY - Porto, Portugal DA - 2010-09-08 KW - Respiratory sensor KW - Fibre optic sensor KW - Optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) KW - MRI KW - Smart textile KW - Healthcare monitoring KW - Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) PY - 2010 SN - 978-0-8194-8083-5 SN - 0277-786X N1 - Serientitel: Proceedings of SPIE – Series title: Proceedings of SPIE IS - 7653 SP - Paper 115, 76533B-1 - 76533B-4 PB - SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering CY - Bellingham, Wash. AN - OPUS4-22552 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -