plots the power dissipation as a function of time for different electric fields applied. The curves obtained at all five different fields show the characteristic behavior of flash sintering-existence of power dissipation surge, indicating that the composite can be flash-sintered within the range of applying field at the furnace temperature of 1000◦C. The curves also show that the incubation time (the time before the occurrence of the surge) for the composite quickly decreases with increasing the applied field, similar to yttria stabilized zirconia without SiC whiskers [20]. While the flash-sintering occurred at the furnace temperature of 1000◦C,the specimen temperature could be much higher than the furnace temperature due to Joule heating [16,21–24]. Here, the specimen temperature was estimated by using the model described in Ref.[16], to be 1400◦C, which is similar to the conventional sintering temperature for 3YSZ [25].