Abstract: A silicon nitride sintered body includes a silicon nitride crystal grains and grain boundary phases. Further, when D stands for width of the silicon nitride sintered body before being subjected to surface processing, relations between an average grain diameter dA and an average aspect ratio rA of the silicon nitride crystal grain in a first region from an outermost surface to a depth of 0 to 0.01D and an average grain diameter dB and an average aspect ratio rB of the silicon nitride crystal grain in a second region inside the first region satisfy the inequalities: 0.8? dA/dB? 1.2; and 0.8? rA/rB? 1.2.

Abstract: A bonded body according to an embodiment includes a ceramic substrate, a copper plate, and a bonding layer that is located on at least one surface of the ceramic substrate and bonds the ceramic substrate and the copper plate. The bonding layer includes titanium. The bonding layer includes first and second regions; the first region includes a layer including titanium as a major component; the layer is formed at an interface of the bonding layer with the ceramic substrate; and the second region is positioned between the first region and the copper plate. The bonded body has a ratio M1/M2 of a titanium concentration M1 at % in the first region and a titanium concentration M2 at % in the second region that is not less than 0.1 and not more than 5 when the Ti concentrations are measured by EDX respectively in measurement regions in the first and second regions.

Abstract: A semiconductor solid state battery has an insulating layer provided between an N-type semiconductor and a P-type semiconductor. The first insulating layer preferably has a thickness of 3 nm to 30 ?m and a dielectric constant of 10 or less. The first insulating layer preferably has a density of 60% or more of a bulk body. The semiconductor layer preferably has a capture level introduced. The semiconductor solid state battery can eliminate leakage of an electrolyte solution.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a ceramic metal circuit board is a ceramic metal circuit board formed by bonding metal circuit plates to at least one surface of a ceramic substrate. At least one of the metal circuit plates has an area of not less than 100 mm2 and includes a concave portion having a depth of not less than 0.02 mm within a range of 1% to 70% of a surface of the at least one of the metal circuit plates. The concave portion is provided not less than 3 mm inside from an end of the metal circuit plate.

Abstract: An aluminum nitride film includes a polycrystalline aluminum nitride. A withstand voltage of the aluminum nitride film is 100 kV/mm or more.

Abstract: A sintered body includes a crystal grain containing silicon nitride, and a grain boundary phase. If dielectric losses of the sintered body are measured while applying an alternating voltage to the sintered body and continuously changing a frequency of the alternating voltage from 50 Hz to 1 MHz, an average value ?A of dielectric losses of the sintered body in a frequency band from 800 kHz to 1 MHz and an average value ?B of dielectric losses of the sintered body in a frequency band from 100 Hz to 200 Hz satisfy an expression |?A??B|?0.1.

Abstract: A cold storage material, which has a large specific heat and a small magnetization in an extremely low temperature region and has satisfactory manufacturability, is provided, and a method for manufacturing the same is provided. Further, a refrigerator having high efficiency and excellent cooling performance is provided by filling this refrigerator with the above-described cold storage material. Moreover, a device incorporating a superconducting coil capable of reducing influence of magnetic noise derived from a cold storage material is provided. The cold storage material of embodiments is a granular body composed of an intermetallic compound in which the ThCr2Si2-type structure 11 occupies 80% by volume or more, and has a crystallite size of 70 nm or less.

Abstract: A cold storage material, which has a large specific heat and a small magnetization in an extremely low temperature region and has satisfactory manufacturability, is provided, and a method for manufacturing the same is provided. Further, a refrigerator having high efficiency and excellent cooling performance is provided by filling this refrigerator with the above-described cold storage material. Moreover, a device incorporating a superconducting coil capable of reducing influence of magnetic noise derived from a cold storage material is provided. The cold storage material of embodiments is a granular body composed of an intermetallic compound in which the ThCr2Si2-type structure 11 occupies 80% by volume or more, and has a crystallite size of 70 nm or less.

Abstract: A reduction in a permeability of refrigerant gas is suppressed while increasing a filling factor of regenerator material particles with respect to a stage of a cold head. A cold head includes a stage including regenerator material particle groups, and a metal mesh material partitioning the regenerator material particle groups. The metal mesh material has quadrangular mesh holes each having a length of a long side of 1/10 or more and ½ or less of each of average particle sizes of the regenerator material particle groups.

Abstract: In a silicon nitride substrate including a silicon nitride sintered body including silicon nitride crystal grains and a grain boundary phase, a plate thickness of the silicon nitride substrate is 0.4 mm or les, and a percentage of a number of the silicon nitride crystal grains including dislocation defect portions inside the silicon nitride crystal grains in a 50 ?m×50 ?m observation region of any cross section or surface of the silicon nitride sintered body is not less than 0% and not more than 20%. Etching resistance can be increased when forming the circuit board.

Abstract: A packaging container for transporting ceramic substrates according to the present embodiment includes a bottom portion in a rectangular shape, and four side portions connected to four edges of the bottom portion respectively. Side protrusions having a height of 2 mm or more and protruding inward are provided on at least two opposite side portions among the four side portions. The bottom portion is provided with a bottom protrusion having a height of 2 mm or more and protruding inward.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a radiation-scintillated shield which attenuates an incident radiation, includes a shielding part containing an activator-added gadolinium compound as an aggregate. The activator uses the gadolinium compound as a base material and emits light when struck by the radiation. Consequently, it becomes possible to shield a ?-ray and a neutron with a thickness which is about the same as that of a conventional concrete shield of ?-ray shield, and to confirm leakage of radiation.

Abstract: A bonded body includes a ceramic substrate and a copper plate, in which the copper plate is bonded to the ceramic substrate via a bonding layer, the copper plate includes a surface perpendicular to a direction in which the ceramic substrate and the copper plate are bonded, and a number percentage of copper crystal grains having major diameters greater than 400 ?m in three 5 mm×5 mm regions included in the surface is not less than 0% and not more than 5%. The bonding temperature is favorably not more than 800° C. The number percentage of the copper crystal grains having major diameters greater than 400 ?m is favorably not more than 1%.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, when a DSC curve is measured using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) for a brazing material for bonding a ceramic substrate and a metal plate, the brazing material has an endothermic peak within a range of not less than 550° C. and not more than 700° C. in a heating process. The brazing material favorably includes Ag, Cu, and Ti. The brazing material favorably has not less than two of the endothermic peaks within a range of not less than 550° C. and not more than 650° C. in the heating process.

Abstract: A scintillator array includes: a structure having scintillator segments and a first reflective layer, the first reflective layer being provided between the scintillator segments and being configured to reflect light, and the scintillator segments having a sintered compact containing a rare earth oxysulfide phosphor; and a layer having a second reflective layer provided above the structure, the second reflective layer being configured to reflect light. The first reflective layer has a portion extending into the layer.

Abstract: A magnetic sheet 1 of an embodiment includes a stack of a plurality of magnetic thin strips and resin film parts. The stack includes from 5 to 25 pieces of the magnetic thin strips. The magnetic thin strips are provided with cutout portions each having a width of 1 mm or less (including 0 (zero)). A ratio (B/A) of a total length B of the cutout portions provided to the magnetic thin strip to a total outer peripheral length A of an outer peripheral area of the magnetic thin strip arranged on one of the resin film parts is in a range of from 2 to 25.

Abstract: A scintillator array includes: a structure having at least one scintillator segment and a first reflective layer, the at least one scintillator segment and the first reflective layer having a first surface and a second surface, the at least one scintillator segment having a sintered compact containing a rare earth oxysulfide phosphor, and the first reflective layer being configured to reflect light; and a second reflective layer provided above the first surface via an adhesive layer, the adhesive layer having a thickness of 2 ?m or more and 40 ?m or less, and the second reflective layer having a film configured to reflect light.

Abstract: A two-stage heat regenerating cryogenic refrigerator may include: a vacuum vessel; a first and second cylinder in the vessel; the second cylinder coaxially connected to the first cylinder; a first regenerator in the first cylinder, the first regenerator accommodating heat regenerating material (HRM) 1; and a second regenerator in the second cylinder accommodating HRM 2, HRM 2 including plural HRM particles, each HRM particle including a heat regenerating substance having a maximum value of specific heat at a temperature of 20 K or less of 0.3 J/cm3·K or more and a metal element; each HRM particle including a first and second region, the second region being closer to each HRM particle's outer edge than the first, and the second region having a metal element higher concentration than the first, the first and second region containing the heat regenerating substance, and the heat regenerating substance contains an oxide or oxysulfide component.

Abstract: A high-frequency acceleration cavity core is a toroidal core obtained by winding an Fe-based magnetic ribbon having crystals with an average crystal grain size of 1 ?m or less, in which a space factor of the Fe-based magnetic ribbon is 40% or more and 59% or less, and a ?Qf value at 1 MHz is 3×109 Hz or more. The average crystal grain size is preferably 0.1 ?m or less. The toroidal core preferably has a portion having a gap portion from an inner diameter to an outer diameter.

Abstract: A magnetic ribbon according to an embodiment has a crystallinity degree of 0.05 or higher and 0.4 or lower when the magnetic ribbon is subjected to XRD analysis, the magnetic ribbon being Fe—Nb—Cu—Si—B-base, and the crystallinity degree being expressed by “a peak total area of a crystalline phase”/(“a peak area of an amorphous phase”+“the peak total area of the crystalline phase”). Also, the magnetic ribbon is preferred to have a region in which a KIKUCHI pattern is detected when the crystalline phase is subjected to EBSD analysis. Also, the thickness of the magnetic ribbon is preferred to be 25 ?m or less.