“…Si 3 N 4 ceramic have been widely recognized as the ideal tool materials for cutting the high temperature cast iron and nickel-based alloys due to its outstanding thermal properties, wear resistance, and high temperature material properties [1,2,3,4]. Currently, high-performance densified Si 3 N 4 ceramics are usually sintered by hot pressing sintering [5,6], hot isostatic pressure sintering [7], pressure less sintering [8], microwave sintering [3,4], reaction sintering [9,10], and spark plasma sintering [11,12,13]. Among the mentioned methods, microwave sintering is a new technology, which has high-energy utilization rate, safety, and free pollution.…”