Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Quantitative Analysis of Phase Compositions of MgO-, CaO- or Y2O3-doped ZrO2

WANG Peiling; DAIJian   

  1. Shanyhai Institute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 200050 China
  • Received:1995-11-03 Revised:1995-12-01 Published:1997-02-20 Online:1997-02-20

Abstract: ZrO2 powder doped with 8mol% MgO, CaO or Y2O3 was prepared by co-precipitation technique. The densified and partially or fully stabilized ZrO2 ceramics were obtained by sintering the powder under 1550℃. The quantitative analyscs of phase compositions of ZrO2 ceramics were performed based on X-ray profile diffraction data and Rietveld inethod. The results show that ZrO2 ceramics stabilized by MgO, CaO or Y2O3 with the same starting composition possess the different phase contents. MgO partially stabilized ZrO2 consists of cubic, tetragonal and monoclinic phases with the weight ratio of 17:57:26, CaO partially stabilized ZrO2 contains cubic and monoclinic phases with the weight ration of 68:32, Y2O3-doped ZrO2 shows almost a pure cubic phase with only 3wt% tetragonal one, however. In the paper, the influence of grain size on phase transformation of tetragonal to monodlinic of ZrO2 is also discussed.

Key words: ZrO2, Rietveld method, quantitative analysis, multiphase powder