Herein, translucent alumina ceramics with fine complex geometric shapes are successfully fabricated by a digital light processing (DLP) process followed by vacuum sintering. The interlayer bonding condition is the key for preparing highquality translucent alumina for this layer-by-layer additive manufacturing (AM) method. The curing characteristics of alumina suspensions are carefully investigated by curing depth and polymerization conversion behavior. It is clear that the residual stress resulted from the polymerization process is more critical than the curing depth for selecting optimum curing time. Finally, high-quality translucent alumina ceramic and complex structures are realized using this novel AM technique. It reveals that DLP 3D printing method can be a promising technology for the fabrication of transparent ceramics.
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