Abstract: Methods for assembling an optoelectronic device are provided. The optoelectronic device includes a first transparent substrate, a second substrate, and environmentally sensitive components. The methods comprise the step of applying a fill material to a surface of at least one of the substrates, and lowering a viscosity of the fill material. The methods further comprise the step of pressing the first transparent substrate and the second substrate together such that the fill material substantially fills an area between the first transparent substrate and the second substrate and substantially encapsulates exposed portions of the environmentally sensitive components. The methods still further comprise the step of sealing the first transparent substrate and the second substrate together to hermetically seal the fill material within the area.

Abstract: Methods for assembling an optoelectronic device are provided. The optoelectronic device includes a first transparent substrate, a second substrate, and environmentally sensitive components. The methods comprise the step of applying a fill material to a surface of at least one of the substrates, and lowering a viscosity of the fill material. The methods further comprise the step of pressing the first transparent substrate and the second substrate together such that the fill material substantially fills an area between the first transparent substrate and the second substrate and substantially encapsulates exposed portions of the environmentally sensitive components. The methods still further comprise the step of sealing the first transparent substrate and the second substrate together to hermetically seal the fill material within the area.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a honeycomb structure comprising providing a green honeycomb structure having a plurality of cell channels extending therethrough, inserting a plug material into at least a subset of the cell channels of the green honeycomb structure to form a plurality of plugs therein, and drying the plugs by exposing the plugs to electromagnetic energy, such as microwave energy.

Abstract: The method for heating a plurality of ceramic bodies, includes: a) providing ceramic-forming raw materials and blending the raw materials with an effective amount of vehicle and forming aids to form a plastic mixture therefrom and thereafter forming the plastic raw material mixture into a plurality of green bodies; b) placing each one of the plurality of green bodies in proximity to an adjacent one of the plurality of green bodies such that upon heating with electromagnetic waves each green body is subject to no more than about 1.5 times the power density at the boundary than in the bulk thereof; and c) drying the green bodies utilizing energy in the form of electromagnetic waves. When the ceramic is a honeycomb cellular cordierite body, the method further includes heating the green bodies up to a maximum temperature of between about 1360° C. and about 1435° C.

Abstract: The method for heating a plurality of ceramic bodies, includes:

Abstract: A method of extruding an electrode, batch material, particularly a zinc or nickel, electrode material, and an extruder assembly for extruding the material, are described. The method and extruder are designed to produce a low compaction of the material and low, back pressure, whereby working of the batch material is limited.

Abstract: Thin inorganic sintered structures having strength and flexibility sufficient to permit bending without breakage in at least one direction to a radius of curvature of less than 20 centimeters, methods for making them, and products incorporating them, are described. Preferred sintered ceramic structures according to the invention can comprise zirconias, titanias, aluminas, silicas, rare earth metal oxides, alkaline oxides, alkaline earth metal oxides and first, second, and third transition series metal oxides and combinations thereof and therebetween. Sintered metal structures can also be provided.

Abstract: An improved method is disclosed for encasing an object in a shell or layer of outer material. The encased object and the outer material are formed from sinterable metal or ceramic particulate material. Both the object to be encased and the shell or encasement are formed by extrusion. Novel methods are disclosed by which the object and the outer material can be simultaneously formed by co-extruding the sinterable particulate materials, or by extruding the outer layer onto a formed object using the die assembly of the invention.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for eliminating the grayish discoloration which commonly develops when lead-free and cadmium-free glass frits are applied to substrates utilizing an organic medium and thereafter fired to fuse the frit particles into a glaze. The grayish discoloration contains a carbonaceous residue from the organic medium. The method comprises the four general steps:(1) adsorbing a coating of a strongly oxidizing metal ion species onto the surface of the frit particles;(2) mixing the coated frit particles with an organic medium;(3) applying that mixture to a substrate; and(4) firing the mixture to eliminate the organic medium and to oxidize the carbonaceous residue while fusing the frit particles into a glaze.

Abstract: This invention is drawn to a method for eliminating the grayish discoloration which customarily develops when lead-free and cadmium-free glass frits are applied to substrates employing an organic vehicle and which are thereafter fired to fuse the frit particles into a glaze. The grayish hue results from a carbonaceous residue left upon thermally decomposing the organic vehicle. The inventive method comprises five general elements:(a) glass frit particles of a desired composition are prepared;(b) a coating of an organic compound containing at least one sulfur oxide group as an oxidizing agent is adsorbed on the surface of the particles;(c) the coated particles are mixed with an organic vehicle;(d) that mixture is coated onto a surface of a substrate; and(e) that coated substrate is fired to fuse the frit particles into a glaze, the oxidizing agent eliminating the carbonaceous residue left upon thermal decomposition of the organic vehicle.

Abstract: Thin inorganic sintered structures having strength and flexibility sufficient to permit bending without breakage in at least one direction to a radius of curvature of less than 20 centimeters, methods for making them, and products incorporating them, are described. Preferred sintered ceramic structures according to the invention can comprise zirconias, titanias, aluminas, silicas, rare earth metal oxides, alkaline oxides, alkaline earth metal oxides and first, second, and third transition series metal oxides and combinations thereof and therebetween. Sintered metal structures can also be provided.

Abstract: There is disclosed a sintered, alpha-cordierite solid solution glass-ceramic body in which the properties of coefficient of thermal expansion and modulus of rupture are stabilized and controlled by using a combination of two dopants in the glass during sintering and crystallization. There is further disclosed the method of producing such bodies, and controlling such properties, through the use of the two dopants.

Abstract: This invention is particularly directed to the preparation of inorganic ceramic laminated structures for use as substrates in integrated circuit packages. One lamina is composed of a high thermal conductivity material, the second lamina is composed of a low thermal conductivity material having a dielectric constant below 10, a sintering temperature below 1050.degree. C., and a linear coefficient of thermal expansion compatible with that of the other lamina, and a bonding medium sealing the two laminae together exhibiting flow at a temperature below the sintering temperature of the second lamina and a linear coefficient of thermal expansion compatible with those of the two laminae.