Title: Materials processing through microwave energy: A review

Abstract

In the today’s era every industry needs a material processing technique, which is economical, fast and energy efficient. Microwave material processing has emerged as a fast growing technique which processes the materials at low cost and at less time than conventional material processing techniques. Volumetric heating feature of microwave heating results in the better properties of the microwave processed material. Microwave processing of materials has been successfully used in the domain of sintering, cladding, casting of various kind of metal, metal ceramic based composite materials. Apart from this in the recent years feasibility studies of microwave heating have been carried out in the field of processing of functionally graded materials and drilling of glass and other brittle materials. In this study a brief review about different microwave material processing techniques have been covered.