The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a porous thick film of an oxide that has extremely few cracks and can be satisfactorily used as an oxygen partial pressure detecting part of an oxygen sensor. The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing such a porous thick film as an oxygen partial pressure detecting part of a resistive oxygen sensor comprising taking a fine particle powder of an oxide containing cerium oxide as a raw material powder, preparing a paste containing the oxide, printing the paste onto a substrate by screen printing, calcining and sintering, the method comprising a step of carrying out heat treatment to effect particle growth from the average particle diameter of the raw material powder to a particle diameter less than the average particle diameter of the ultimately obtained thick film, a step of mixing the particle growth-effected powder with a solvent, a step of dispersing agglomerated particles in the solvent, a step of removing a precipitate, a step of evaporating off the solvent, and a step of mixing the resulting oxide with an organic binder to obtain the paste.
本发明提供了一种制造氧化物多孔厚膜的方法,该方法具有极少裂纹,并且可以满意地用作氧传感器的氧分压检测部分。本发明涉及一种制造这样的氧分压检测部分的多孔厚膜的方法,作为电阻式氧传感器的一部分,包括采用含
氧化铈的氧化物的细粒粉末作为原料粉末,制备含氧化物的浆料,通过丝网印刷将浆料印刷到基板上,经过煅烧和烧结,该方法包括一步,即进行热处理,使粒子从原料粉末的平均粒径增长到小于最终获得的厚膜的平均粒径的粒径,一步是将粒子增长效应的粉末与溶剂混合,一步是将凝聚的颗粒分散在溶剂中,一步是去除沉淀,一步是蒸发溶剂,一步是将得到的氧化物与有机粘合剂混合以获得浆料。