Dinesh K. Agrawal

TL;DR: In this article, the microwave sintering of standard powdered metals from commercial sources using a 2.45 GHz microwave field, yielding dense products with better mechanical properties than those obtained by conventional heating.

TL;DR: Microwave processing of ceramics is fast emerging as a new field of ceramic processing and material synthesis The past year has witnessed significant progress in the aspect of commercialization and application of the technology to new areas as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the magnetic properties measurements showed lower coercivity and higher magnetization values for microwave sintered specimens and attributed the higher magnetisation values may be explained by the contribution of the microwave field to the uncoupling spin effect.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a single mode TE103 cavity at 2.45 GHz, where a large variety of materials have been reacted as ≈1 cm φ, 2mm thick samples within the same cavity, at the positions of the E field and H field maxima.

TL;DR: In this article, microwave sintered WC/Co samples were compared with conventional sintering samples, and it was shown that the cobalt phase dissolved nearly no tungsten, whereas in conventionally Sintered samples up to 20.5% tungststen was dissolved in the binder phase, which resulted in a harder material, which exhibited better resistance towards both corrosion and erosion.