Abstract: A silicon carbide based material exhibiting high strength, good thermal shock resistance, high resistance to abrasion and being chemically stable to harsh environmental conditions is described. The carbide Ball Hill ceramic comprises a ?-SiAlON bonding phase in which sintering is facilitated by at least one rare earth oxide sintering agents incorporated within the Vibrating Sieve batch admixture as starting materials. The residual rare earth sintering aid being chosen so as to impart good mechanical and refractory properties.

Abstract: The high-withstanding-voltage member includes an alumina sintered compact containing alumina as a main crystal. Furthermore, the alumina sintered compact exhibits a peak intensity of 5000 or less at a wavelength of about 330 nm when measured by a cathode luminescence method.

Abstract: An ion exchangeable glass that is free of lithium and comprising 0.1-10 mol % P2O5 and at least 5 mol % Al2O3. The presence of P2O5 enables the glass to be ion exchanged more quickly and to a greater depth than comparable glasses that do not contain P2O5.

Abstract: A method of forming a ceramic body including forming a mixture made of at least a first powder material (PM1) including carbon having a first average particle size (PS1), a second powder material (PM2) including carbon and different than the first powder material, the second powder material having a second average particle size (PS2) less than the first average particle size (PS1), and an aluminum content (AC2) greater than the aluminum content (AC1) of the first powder material, and further including forming a green body from the mixture, and sintering the green body and forming a ceramic body having a first type of grain having an average grain size of not greater than about 8 times the first average particle size (PS1).

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric ceramic layers and inner electrode layers containing Ni and electrically connected to outer electrodes. The dielectric ceramic layers contain a Ba- and Ti-containing perovskite compound, Ca, Mg, R (at least one rare earth metal selected from La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and Y), M (at least one selected from Zr, Mn, Co, Fe, Cr, Cu, Al, V, Mo, and W), and Si. The number of parts by mole of each element relative to Ti as 100 parts is as follows: Ca, approximately 0.10 to 5.00 parts; Mg, approximately 0.0010 to 0.0098 parts; R in total, approximately 0.50 to 4.00 parts; M in total, approximately 0.10 to 2.00 parts; and Si, approximately 0.5 to 2.0 parts.

Abstract: To provide a dielectric ceramic composition having a high dielectric constant, i.e., 3,000 or more, at elevated temperatures at or above 150° C. and having a practically sufficient relative dielectric constant at an applied DC electric field of 2 V/?m, and to provide a dielectric device including such a dielectric ceramic composition, a dielectric ceramic composition is a composite oxide represented by formula (1): {[(BisNat)a(BiuKv)bBac]1-dNad}xTi1-dNbdO3??(1) where a, b, c, d, s, t, u, v, and x are numbers satisfying the following conditions: 0.20?a<0.95 0.00<b?0.50 if 0.20<a<0.70, b<(1.20?a)/2 0.05?c<0.60 if 0.20<a<0.70, c>(0.80?a)/2 a+b+c=1 0.02?d<0.10 0.90?s+u?1.00 0.45?t?0.50 0.45?v?0.50 0.95?x?1.05.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dielectric ceramic composition which is complex oxides represented by the following formula (1), {[(BisNat)a(BiuKv)bBac]1-dAd}xTi1-dNbdO3 (1), wherein, in formula (1), A represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Li, Na and K, and a, b, c, d, s, t, u, v and x are numbers respectively satisfying the following formulae, 0.10?a?0.95, 0.00<b?0.85, 0.05?c?0.70, a+b+c=1, 0.10?d?0.50, 0.90?s+u?1.00, 0.45?t?0.50, 0.45?v?0.50 and 0.95?x?1.05.

Abstract: A ceramic sintered body according to the present invention comprises: silicon carbide and aluminum nitride, wherein a weight ratio of the aluminum nitride relative to a total weight ratio of the silicon carbide and the aluminum nitride is greater than 10% and 97% or smaller, and a bulk density is greater than 3.18 g/cm3.

Abstract: There are provided a dielectric ceramic having large specific resistance and even capacitance characteristic at 150° C., as well as a laminated ceramic electronic component employing such a dielectric ceramic. A ceramic layer includes crystal grains, the ceramic layer containing a perovskite type compound containing Ba, Ca, Ti, and Zr, containing Si, and optionally containing Mn. When the total content of Ti and Zr is 1 molar part, the content of Mn is 0.015 molar part or less, the content of Si is 0.005 molar part or more and less than 0.03 molar part, the molar ratio x of Ca/(Ba+Ca) satisfies 0.05<x<0.20, and the molar ratio y of Zr/(Ti+Zr) satisfies 0.03<y<0.18. The crystal grains have an average grain size of less than 130 nm.

Abstract: Both single phase lead-free cubic pyrochlore bismuth zinc niobate (BZN)-based dielectric materials with a chemical composition of Bi1.5Zn(0.5+y)Nb(1.5?x)Ta(x)O(6.5+y), with 0?x<0.23 and 0?y<0.9 and films with these average compositions with Bi2O3 particles in an amorphous matrix and a process of manufacture thereof. The crystalline BZNT-based dielectric material has a relative permittivity of at least 120, a maximum applied electric field of at least 4.0 MV/cm at 10 kHz, a maximum energy storage at 25° C. and 10 kHz of at least 50 J/cm3 and a maximum energy storage at 200° C. and 10 kHz of at least 22 J/cm3. The process is a wet chemical process that produces thin films of Bi1.5Zn(0.5+y)Nb(1.5?x)Ta(x)O(6.5+y) without the use of 2-methoxyethanol and pyridine.

Abstract: Chalcogenide glass-ceramic having, for example, the following composition GeSe2—Sb2Se3—CuI, this glass-ceramic comprising at least one crystalline phase, characterised in that the crystallisation rate and the dimensions of the crystals in the crystalline phase are such that the crystals are substantially in contact with each other in such a way that this crystalline phase has an electrical conductivity greater than or equal to 10?4 s·cm?1 which increases under lighting due to the creation of charge carriers within the crystalline phase.

Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered body includes cubic boron nitride, a binder, and a metal catalyst element, a content by percentage of the cubic boron nitride is 50 vol % or more and 85 vol % or less, a content by percentage of the catalyst is 0.5 mass % or more and 5 mass % or less. A sum of a detected peak value of nitrogen and a detected peak value of boron at each of arbitrary measurement points on line segments is calculated, a measurement point at which the sum is a half or less of a maximum value among the sums at all measurement points respectively is identified as a binder-portion measurement point, and a ratio of the number of measurement points at which the catalyst element is not detected among the binder-portion measurement points, to a total number of all binder-portion measurement points, is 30% or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength, high-expansion crystallized glass composition that, by being fired at not less than 850° C., can be used at high temperatures at not less than 950° C. The composition is a sealing glass composition substantially free of boron oxide and comprising the following components, in mol %, SiO2: 40-50%, ZnO: 16-30%, BaO: 5-25%, CaO: 0-25%, Al2O3: 0-5%, and RO: not less than 44% (wherein R denotes one or more species of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, and Zn).

Abstract: A barrier rib paste includes a low-softening point glass powder which contains silicon oxide, aluminum oxide, an alkali metal oxide, and 24 to 37 mol % of boron oxide, and also contains an organic component, wherein the content of an alkali earth metal oxide is 4 mol % or less and the content of zinc oxide is 10 mol % or less.

Abstract: A castable refractory composition may include from 5% to 95% by weight of alumina, aluminosilicate, or mixtures thereof; up to 70% by weight silicon carbide; up to 10% by weight carbon; from 0.1% to 5% by weight alkaline earth metal oxide and/or hydroxide; and from 0.1% to 5% by weight of silica having a surface area of at least about 10 m2/g. The refractory composition may further include no more than 0.5% by weight of cementitious binder, and the refractory composition may not release a significant amount of hydrogen gas upon addition of water. The refractory composition may set on addition of water. An installable refractory lining may be formed using the composition and a method including at least one of casting, self-flowing, wet shotcreeting, rodding, cast-vibrating, spraying, conventional dry gunning, or high density gunning the castable refractory composition, and setting and drying the composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a ceramic material comprising magnesium, gallium, lithium, and oxygen as main components, wherein a crystal phase of a solid solution attained by dissolving gallium oxide and lithium oxide in magnesium oxide is a main phase. An XRD peak of a (200) plane of the solid solution with CuK? rays preferably appears at 2?=42.91° or more which is larger than an angle at which a peak of a Cubic crystal of magnesium oxide appears, more preferably appears at 2?=42.91° to 43.28°, and further preferably appears at 2?=42.91° to 43.02°. In the ceramic material, a molar ratio Li/Ga of Li to Ga is preferably 0.80 or more and 1.20 or less.

Abstract: Provided is an alumina sintered body which has a high heat conductivity and a high infrared ray emissivity and is excellent in electrical insulation property and chemical resistance. An alumina sintered body contains cubic aluminum nitride.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a Li2O—Al2O3—SiO2 based crystallized glass with excellent bubble quality even without using As2O3 or Sb2O3 as a fining agent and a method for producing the same. The Li2O—Al2O3—SiO2 based crystallized glass of the present invention is a Li2O—Al2O3—SiO2 based crystallized glass which does not substantially comprise As2O3 and Sb2O3 and comprises at least one of Cl, CeO2 and SnO2, and has a S content of not more than 10 ppm in terms of SO3.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a carbon fiber-reinforced article includes providing carbon fibers that have surfaces that include an initial interfacial bonding strength capacity with respect to bonding with boron nitride. The surfaces are then modified to reduce the initial interfacial bonding strength capacity. A layer of boron nitride is then deposited on the modified surfaces and the carbon fibers are then embedded in a ceramic matrix. A carbon fiber-reinforced article includes the carbon fibers, the layer of boron nitride on the surfaces of the carbon fibers, and the ceramic matrix. The article exhibits non-brittle fracture.

Abstract: A down-drawable glass ceramic. The glass ceramic has a composition which yields a liquidus viscosity that enables formation of the parent glass by down-draw techniques such as fusion-draw and slot-draw methods. The resulting glass ceramic is white or translucent in appearance with high strength achieved through heat treatment of the fusion-formed glass.