Khan, Mikael A.Kurchania, RajnishCorkovic, SilvanaZhang, QiMilne, Steven J.2011-04-142011-04-142006-06-01Mikael A. Khan, Rajnish Kurchania, Silvana Corkovic, Qi Zhang and Steven J. Milne, Compaction of lead zirconate titanate sol-gel coatings, Materials Letters, Volume 60, Issue 12, June 2006, Pages 1463-1465.0167-577Xhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2005.11.046http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/1103A novel method for the densification of sol-gel films is presented. After elimination of organic decomposition products by heat-treatment at 350 °C and 450 °C, the films are isopressed prior to crystallisation at 550 °C. Consequently, porous lead zirconate titanate films, ~0.7 m in thickness with pore sizes of ~0.1 m could be transformed into dense 0.2 m filen-UKArticle