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Aluminum Nitride vs. Ceria

Aluminum nitride belongs to the non-oxide engineering ceramics classification, while ceria belongs to the oxide-based engineering ceramics. There are 9 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (12, in this case) are not shown. Please note that the two materials have significantly dissimilar densities. This means that additional care is required when interpreting the data, because some material properties are based on units of mass, while others are based on units of area or volume.

For each property being compared, the top bar is aluminum nitride and the bottom bar is ceria.

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Material Properties

Compressive (Crushing) Strength, MPa 2100
590
Density, g/cm3 2.9 to 3.3
7.6
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa 330
180
Electrical Resistivity Order of Magnitude, 10x Ω-m 10 to 12
4.0
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C 1380
1900
Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K 780
390
Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points 55 to 63
13
Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points 69 to 80
25
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K 4.2 to 5.4
11