“…So far, most previous researches on pressureless, liquid‐phase sintering of SiC ceramics (LPS‐SiC) has focused on the Al 2 O 3 – Y 2 O 3 additive system, although a variety of other additive compositions have been investigated for sintering SiC using applied pressure. The additive compositions investigated for hot‐pressed, spark plasma sintered, or gas‐pressure sintered SiC ceramics include AlN, Al 2 O 3 –RE 2 O 3 (RE = La, Nd, Y, and Yb), AlN–RE 2 O 3 (RE = Sc, Lu, Yb, Er, and Y), Y 2 O 3 – RE 2 O 3 (RE = Sc, La, and Nd), Y 2 O 3 ‐nitrides, Al 2 O 3 – Y 2 O 3 – AlN, and RE‐nitrate (RE = Sc, Lu, Dy, Tb, Gd, Eu, Sm, Nd, Ce, and La) …”