Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laundry additive article wherein a polymerizable or crosslinkable dye or particulate soil absorber is applied to one face of a substrate web and a cross-linker is separately applied to the coating of the dye or particulate soil absorber to cross-link the dye or particulate soil absorber on the substrate such that the dye or particulate soil absorber does not dissolve in the wash water. In accordance with one embodiment, the dye or particulate soil absorber and the cross-linker are applied as aqueous based solutions. Other laundry additives may be applied to the substrate using other coating techniques and particularly as a waxy or hot melt composition.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for uniformly applying a foam to a wet tissue web is provided. Specifically, a foam is first formed from a liquid-based composition and a gas, such as air. Once formed, the foam is applied by a foam applicator to the wet tissue web. In one embodiment, for example, the foam applicator applies the foam with a flexible scraper contacting the wet tissue web during the application of the foam. When applied with the foam, the wet tissue web typically has a solids consistency less than about 95% by dry weight of the tissue web. In some embodiments, one or more vacuum slots may be utilized in conjunction with the foam applicator to facilitate uniform application of the foam to the wet tissue web.

Abstract: A glazing assembly is provided made of at least one transparent substrate having a stack thereon that includes an alternation of n functional layers and n−1 coatings, wherein the functional layers have reflection properties in the infrared and/or solar radiation and where n≧1 and where, in order to maintain the quality of the stack when the substrate is subjected to a heat treatment step, at least one of the following must be satisfied: the coating placed on top of at least one of the functional layers includes at least one barrier layer providing a barrier to at least oxygen and water; and at least one absorbent or stabilizing layer made of a material capable of absorbing or stabilizing the consituent material of the functional layer forms a part of either the coating placed on top of the functional layer and under the barrier layer or the coating placed beneath the functional layer; and a method for production of the glazing assembly.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of treatment with a microwave plasma by maintaining a reduced pressure in a plasma-treating chamber for treatment with a plasma in which a substrate that is to be treated with a microwave plasma is contained, introducing a treating gas into the plasma-treating chamber and introducing microwaves into the plasma-treating chamber, wherein a metallic antenna is disposed in the plasma-treating chamber. The plasma is generated within a very short period of time maintaining stability after the microwaves are introduced into the plasma-treating chamber, and the treatment is accomplished maintaining stability.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuously coating moving web and splices with a coating fluid. The system includes a slide coating die having a slide surface with at least one feed slot for extruding the coating fluid onto the moving web. The slide coating die defines a coating gap with the moving web. The coating gap is adjustable between a coating position and a splice coating position. A web guide is positioned to guide the moving web in a first direction past the slide coating die such that a coating bead of the coating fluid can be formed in the coating gap. A vacuum system is positioned to generate a reduced pressure condition along a lower surface of the slide coating die. The vacuum system defines a vacuum gap with the moving web. The vacuum gap is adjustable independent of the coating gap between a coating position and a splice coating position. A detector signals an increase in web thickness. A controller is functionally connected to the detector.

Abstract: A prosthesis having an apertured structure is located in a chamber (11) which is taken to sub-atmospheric pressure. Once sub-atmospheric pressure has been reached, a liquid, optionally containing pharmacological agents, is introduced into the chamber. Drawn by the sub-atmospheric pressure, the liquid saturates the apertured structure of the prosthesis. In this way, the invention eliminates the risk of air being trapped in the apertured structure that could give rise to the formation of blood clots after implantation of the prosthesis. The liquid can contain drugs that penetrate the prosthesis, performing their therapeutic action locally and over time after implantation.

Abstract: In manufacturing a magnetic recording disk, a magnetic film for a recording layer is deposited on a substrate of the magnetic recording disk in a magnetic-film deposition chamber, and the substrate is transferred from the magnetic-film deposition chamber to a lubricant-layer preparation chamber without exposing the substrate to the atmosphere. Then, a lubricant layer is prepared on the substrate in the lubricant-layer preparation chamber.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a processing method to produce a porous polymer film that consists of sp2C—X and HC-sp3C&agr;—X bonds (wherein, X═H or F), and exhibits at least a crystal melting temperature, (“Tm”). The porous polymer films produced by this invention are useful for fabricating future integrated circuits (“IC's”). The method described herein is useful for preparing the porous polymer films by polymerizing reactive intermediates, formed from a first-precursor, with a low feed rate and at temperatures equal to or below a melting temperature of intermediate (T1m). Second-precursors that do not become reactive intermediates or have an incomplete conversion to reactive intermediates are also transported to a deposition chamber and become an inclusion of the deposited film. By utilizing a subsequent in-situ, post treatment process the inclusions in the deposited film can be removed to leave micro-pores in the resultant film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an enhanced sequential atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique suitable for deposition of barrier layers, adhesion layers, seed layers, low dielectric constant (low-k) films, high dielectric constant (high-k) films, and other conductive, semi-conductive, and non-conductive films. This is accomplished by 1) providing a non-thermal or non-pyrolytic means of triggering the deposition reaction; 2) providing a means of depositing a purer film of higher density at lower temperatures; and, 3) providing a faster and more efficient means of modulating the deposition sequence and hence the overall process rate resulting in an improved deposition method.

Abstract: A method of depositing nano-particles in a gas stream for efficiently depositing nano-particles by irradiating an electron beam on charged nano-particles in the stream of a first gas species containing the nano-particles, as well as a method of modifying the surface of the nano-particles in a gas stream by mixing them with the first gas species in a gas mixing chamber thereby activating the second gas species, intended for providing a method of depositing nano-particles and a method of modifying the surface thereof in a gas stream, capable of efficiently depositing the nano-particles in a charged state in a gas stream and modifying the surface of the nano-particles which are extremely sensitive to defects and impurities caused by large exposure ratio of surface atoms in a gas stream at a good controllability.

Abstract: A system and method for directing metal or ceramic particles toward a substrate (18) in a vacuum chamber includes a powder hopper (11), an enclosure (12) containing multiple differentially pumped vacuum chambers (19), a charging lamp (13), a tube (14), multiple charging and heating diodes 15, and an electromagnetic field generating device (EFGD) (17). The hopper (11) holds metal or ceramic particles, the chambers (19) propel the particles through the tube (14) towards substrate (18) positioned close to the tube, charging lamp (13) charges the particles, diodes (15) are used to heat the particles, and the EFGD (17) controls the direction of the particles propelled out of the tube.

Abstract: Disclosed is a metal sulphide coating composition of the formula MXSiVRYSZFW where M is one or more metals selected from: Mo, Ti, W, Nb, Ta, Zr, and Hf; Si is silicon; R is one or more elements selected from: C, B, Al, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Sm, Au, Cu, Zn, Sn, Pb, N, H, and O; S is sulphur; F is fluorine; X is 0.2 to 1.5; V is 0.02 to 3; Y is 0 to 4; Z is 0.2 to 6; and W is 0.01 to 6, and in which X, Y, Z, V, and W are given in amounts by atomic ratio. The compositions show good non-stick properties, low hydrophilia, and high stability.

Abstract: A fabrication method of metallic nanowires includes the steps of: forming a layer of autocatalytic metal with a thickness of 30 nm-1000 nm on the surface of a substrate; and forming nanowires on the front surface of the layer of autocatalytic metal, wherein the substrate is put into an evaporator and the layer of autocatalytic metal is grown by autocatalytic reaction for 10˜5000 seconds. A large amount of nanowires can be grown on a substrate without a lithography process.

Abstract: Methods and products of Transport co-polymerization (“TCP”) that are useful for preparations of low Dielectric Constant (“&egr;”) thin films are disclosed. Transport co-polymerization (“TCP”) of reactive intermediates that are generated from a first precursor with a general structural formula (Z)m—Ar—(CX′X″Y)n (VI) with a second reactive intermediate that is generated from a cage compound (e.g. Fullerenes, Methylsilsesquioxane, Hydrosilsesquioxane, and Adamantanyl) or a cyclic-compounds (e.g. Cyclo-Siloxanes and 2,2-Paracyclophanes) results in co-polymer films that are useful for making porous low &egr; (≦2.0) thin films. The porous thin films of this invention consist of nano-pores with uniform pore distribution thus retain high rigidity thus are suitable for manufacturing of future ICs using copper as conductor.

Abstract: Vacuum/gas phase reactor embodiments used in gas phase dehydroxylation and alkylation reactions are described in which the substrate could be subjected to high vacuum, heated to target temperature, and treated with silane as quickly and efficiently as possible. To better facilitate the silylation and to increase the efficiency of the process, the reactor is designed to contain quasi-catalytic surfaces which can act both as an “activator” to put species in a higher energy state or a highly activated state, and as a “scrubber” to eliminate possible poisons or reactive by-products generated in the silylation reactions. One described embodiment is a hot filament reactor having hot, preferably metallic, solid surfaces within the reactor's chamber in which wafers having mesoporous silicate films are treated. Another is an IR reactor having upper and lower quartz windows sealing the upper and lower periphery of an aluminum annulus to form a heated chamber.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a spin valve sensor includes sequentially depositing, without breaking vacuum, a seed layer and an antiferromagnetic layer. Sequentially depositing the seed layer and the antiferromagnetic layer includes depositing a seed layer on a substrate; depositing a Mn-alloy layer of the antiferromagnetic layer directly on top of the seed layer; and depositing a buffer layer of the antiferromagnetic layer directly on top of the Mn-alloy layer. The seed layer, the Mn-alloy layer and the buffer layer are annealed. After annealing, a portion of the buffer layer is etched and a synthetic antiferromagnetic layer is deposited on top of the buffer layer. A spacer layer is deposited on top of the synthetic antiferromagnetic layer, and a free layer is deposited on top of the spacer layer.

Abstract: A process for treating high-loft porous fabrics with topically applied active agents is provided and includes the steps of applying an active agent to a surface of the fabric and forcing the active agent through the entirety of the web by directing a focused stream of air or steam, at a rate above 25 meters/second, into and through the web and also applying a vacuum to the opposite side of the web to collect the air, condensate and/or active agent drawn out of the fabric. Fabrics having a thickness in excess of 50 mils with densities between 0.2 g/cc and 0.008 g/cc have a topically applied active agent substantially uniformly distributed throughout the entire fabric thickness.

Abstract: An apparatus and methods for applying a coating to an implantable device. The implantable device can include depots formed in the outer surface thereof to receive the coating. The coating can include a polymer and a solvent applicable to the surface of the implantable device including the depots. The application of the composition is performed under a pressure, which can reduce the surface tension and/or molecular adhesion force of the composition. The reduced surface tension and/or adhesion force allows gas bubbles within the depots to be removed while the composition is being driven into the depots.

Abstract: A high quality metallic deposit can be produced inside the micro-cavities formed on a surface of a substrate by the present invention. The method involves immersing the substrate in a liquid held in a processing chamber, evacuating the processing chamber so as to remove residual bubbles from the micro-cavities and to degas the liquid within the micro-cavities, and subjecting the liquid to boiling in at least those regions adjacent to the substrate.

Abstract: In a coating method for forming a film of a coating material on a substrate by supplying the coating material from a coating unit to the substrate held by a stage while the coating unit is moved relative to the stage, the stage includes a substrate-holding section and a peripheral section which has a surface higher than that of the substrate-holding section. The coating method includes the steps of mounting the substrate on the substrate-holding section of the stage; forming the film of the coating material so that the coating covers the substrate and extends to the peripheral section; and removing the coating material remaining in the peripheral section by a coating material removing unit after the substrate provided with the film is dismounted from the stage.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of mixing/dispersing solid phases of a carbon powder 4 and silicon powder 5, impregnating a woven fiber 2 with the powders, and subsequently exposing the woven fiber to a high temperature sufficient for reaction calcining to react/calcine the woven fiber, so that only small amounts of C and Si particles remain, a matrix forming speed is high, and CMC having high airtightness can be manufactured in a short time.

Abstract: The present invention is useful in growing complex films with high quality (low lattice strain, large grain size, high degree of perfection) at high rates and large area, and high efficiency use of material. A solid-state film is grown from a liquid, where atoms are supplied continuously by vapor deposition onto the liquid surface. The desired film material grows from or is precipitated from the liquid flux, which is in thermodynamic equilibrium with the desired film. The desired film growth starts at a substrate interface. If this is a biaxial textured surface suitable in chemical reactivity and lattice constant, the growth will be epitaxial with the substrate. The atomic mixture that forms the deposited film is supplied by the arrival of the atoms from a vapor onto the surface of the liquid flux. An important additional factor in the case of an oxide such as the HTSC YBCO is that activated oxygen needs to be present, along with molecular oxygen.

Abstract: A process for impregnating at least one porous part with an impregnant is provided comprising: (a) immersing the porous part(s) in impregnant; (b) measuring at least one parameter indicative of the buoyancy of the porous part(s) as the impregnant impregnates the parts; and (c) interrupting impregnation when the measured parameter(s) indicates a predetermined level of impregnation is achieved. An apparatus for impregnating porous parts comprises a vessel for holding the porous part(s) and an impregnant, and a measuring device for measuring at least one parameter indicative of the buoyancy of the porous part(s) immersed in the impregnant within the vessel.

Abstract: A novel materials technology has been developed and demonstrated for providing a high modulus composite material for use to 1000° F. and above. This material can be produced at 5-20% of the cost of refractory materials, and has higher structural properties. This technology successfully resolves the problem of “thermal shock” or “ply lift,” which limits traditional high temperature laminates (such as graphite/polyimide and graphite/phenolic) to temperatures of 550-650° F. in thicker (0.25″ and above) laminates. The technology disclosed herein is an enabling technology for the nose for the External Tank (ET) of the Space Shuttle, and has been shown to be capable of withstanding the severe environments encountered by the nose cone through wind tunnel testing, high temperature subcomponent testing, and full scale structural, dynamic, acoustic, and damage tolerance testing.

Abstract: A process for impregnating a porous material with a cross-linkable composition is disclosed. The degree of impregnation and placement of the cross-linkable composition within the pores of the porous material can be controlled very precisely through the use of a pressure differential. The pressure differential is effected through a nonreactive gas, a vacuum, or a combination thereof. Medical devices produced using such a method are also disclosed.

Abstract: Process for the vacuum coating of an extruded material, particularly animal food, in which the extruded material is coated with a flowable coating material during a vacuum phase and under reduced pressure, characterized in that the extruded material, during the vacuum phase, is initially dried and then coated with the coating material.

Abstract: Provided herein is a method of improving the planarity of a support plate of a susceptor for use during deposition of a film of material onto a substrate comprising the steps of reducing pressure in a hollow core of a shaft to a level below atmospheric pressure; and reducing a pressure in the deposition chamber to a level required for the deposition of the film of material onto the substrate, where the pressure in the hollow core of the shaft acts upon a lower surface of the support plate connected to the shaft and interfacing with the hollow core of the shaft and the pressure in the deposition chamber acts upon an upper surface of the support plate adapted to support the substrate thereby improving planarity. Also provided are a susceptor and a method of depositing a film onto a substrate affixed to the susceptor of the present invention.

Abstract: An overcoat protected diffraction grating. A replica grating having a thin aluminum reflective grating surface is produced by replication of a master grating or a submaster grating. The thin aluminum reflective surface may be cracked or have relatively thick grain boundaries containing oxides and hydroxides of aluminum and typically is also naturally coated with an aluminum oxide film. The grating is subsequently overcoated in a vacuum chamber with one or two thin, pure, dense aluminum overcoat layers and then also in the vacuum the aluminum overcoat layer or layers are coated with one or more thin protective layers of a material transparent to ultraviolet radiation. In preferred embodiments this protective layer is a single layer of MgF2, SiO2 or Al2O3. In other preferred embodiments the layer is a layer of MgF2 or SiO2 covered with a layer of Al2O3 and in a third preferred embodiment the protective layer is made up of four alternating layers of MgF2 and Al2O3 or four alternating layers of SiO2 and Al2O3.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a filter utilizing a porous ceramic membrane as a separation film is provided, comprising the steps of substituting the air inside fine-pores of the porous substrate with a liquid, isolating the porous substrate face to be provided with a separation film, the other face of the porous substrate face not provided with the separation film, continuously feeding a film deposition slurry containing ceramic framework particles to allow the slurry to contact the face of the porous substrate to be provided with the separation film, applying a differential filtration pressure between the faces of the porous substrate, and depositing the slurry on the surface of the porous substrate. An organic polymer for endowing the deposition film with filtration resistance is added to the slurry.

Abstract: Concrete materials are impregnated with liquids which harden within concrete pores and microcracks, and develop a sharp contrast with the body of concrete in microscopic images. The impregnation process involves vacuum application to remove air from concrete pores and microcracks, followed by the introduction of liquids under pressure. The sharp contrast between the impregnated (and hardened) liquid and the body of concrete facilitates distinction of pores and microcracks in microscopic images for the purpose of automated image analysis.

Abstract: Process for the continuous solvent-free and mastication-free production of self-adhesive compositions based on non-thermoplastic elastomers in a continuously operating apparatus having a filling section and a compounding section, comprising a) feeding the solid components of the self-adhesive composition, such as elastomers and resins, into the filling section of the apparatus, optionally feeding of fillers, colorants and/or crosslinkers, b) transferring the solid components of the self-adhesive composition from the filling section to the compounding section, c) adding the liquid components of the self-adhesive composition, such as plasticizers, crosslinkers and/or further tackifier resins to the compounding section, d) preparing a homogeneous self-adhesive composition in the compounding section, and e) discharging the self-adhesive composition, f) coating the self-adhesive composition on a web-form material, where the coating of the web-form material is carried out using a multi-roll applicator unit, p

Abstract: The present methods provide an amorphous, conformal, protective, abrasion-resistant, lubricious fluoropolymer coating on to a polymer substrate via a gas plasma deposition method. The coating method, according to one embodiment of the method, involves generating a gas plasma by introducing a mixture of a fluorinated gas monomer and a hydrocarbon gas into an energetic ion field, such as an ion beam or the field produced by a radio-frequency source. The fluorinated gas monomer is selected from the group consisting of CF.sub.4, C.sub.2 F.sub.4, C.sub.2 F.sub.6, CF.sub.3.sub.2CO, CH.sub.2 CF.sub.2 and mixtures of the foregoing. The hydrocarbon gas is selected from the group consisting of C.sub.2 H.sub.2, C.sub.2 H.sub.4, C.sub.2 H.sub.6, and H.sub.2 and mixtures of the foregoing. The polymer substrate is exposed to the foregoing gas plasma for sufficient time to achieve the desired coating thickness.

Abstract: The present invention is a method of making a thin film of a polyurethane. The method has the steps of: (a) vacuum coating a thin layer of a solventless mixture of a monomer mixture, said monomer mixture selected from the group consisting of polyols, polyisocyanates and combinations thereof, onto a substrate in a vacuum chamber; and (b) curing the monomer as said thin film of said polyurethane.

Abstract: A process for making high aspect ratio metal flakes comprises applying a multi-layer sandwich of vapor deposited metal and release coats in alternating layers to a rotating chilled drum or suitable carrier medium contained in a vapor deposition chamber. The alternating metallized layers are applied by vapor deposition and the intervening release layers are preferably solvent-soluble materials applied by suitable coating or vapor deposition sources contained in the vapor deposition chamber. The release coat materials can be a thermoplastic solvent-soluble polymer. The multi-layer sandwich built up in the vacuum chamber is removed from the drum or carrier and treated with a suitable solvent to dissolve the release coating from the metal in a stripping process that leaves the metal flakes essentially release coat free.

Abstract: A system and method for directing metal or ceramic particles toward a substrate (18) in a vacuum chamber includes a powder hopper (11), an enclosure (12) containing multiple differentially pumped vacuum chambers (19), a charging lamp (13), a tube (14), multiple charging and heating diodes 15, and an electromagnetic field generating device (EFGD) (17). The hopper (11) holds metal or ceramic particles, the chambers (19) propel the particles through the tube (14) towards substrate (18) positioned close to the tube, charging lamp (13) charges the particles, diodes (15) are used to heat the particles, and the EFGD (17) controls the direction of the particles propelled out of the tube.

Abstract: Improved silicon carbide composites made by an infiltration process feature a metal phase in addition to any residual silicon phase. Not only are properties such as mechanical toughness improved, but the infiltrant can be so engineered as to have much diminished amounts of expansion upon solidification, thereby enhancing net-shape-making capabilities. Further, multi-component infiltrant materials may have a lower liquidus temperature than pure silicon, thereby providing the practitioner greater control over the infiltration process. In particular, the infiltration may be conducted at the lower temperatures, where low-cost but effective bedding or barrier materials can terminate the infiltration process once the infiltrant has migrated through the permeable mass up to the boundary between the mass and the bedding material.

Abstract: A method for forming an insulating film, wherein a precursor film of a coating type insulating film having Si—H bonding is coated, the precursor film is calcined in an atmosphere containing at least one of an inert gas and oxygen gas for converting it into a ceramic film as the insulating film, and then the ceramic film is cooled under reduced pressure lower than that for the calcination.

Abstract: A catalyst composition is applied to an interior of a hollow substrate. The composition is coated on the substrate by immersing the substrate into a vessel containing a bath of coating slurry. A vacuum is then applied to the partially immersed substrate. The intensity of the vacuum and its application time is sufficient to draw the coating slurry upwardly from the bath into each of a plurality of channels located in the interior of the hollow substrate. After removing the substrate from the bath it is rotated 180°. A blast of pressurized air is applied at an intensity and for a time sufficient to distribute the coating slurry within the channels of the substrate to form a uniform coating profile therein.

Abstract: A processing system and associated method for vacuum evaporation of material onto a substrate. The processing system includes a loading chamber, a transfer chamber, and a thermal processing chamber arranged together to form a cluster tool. The cluster tool arrangement provides the system a continuous processing capability. The system also includes an evacuation system arrangement for evacuating the processing system to adequate processing pressure levels. The evacuation system arrangement includes a series of pumps, which are capable of maintaining the selected processing pressure levels for continuous thermal evaporation processing without the need for lowering the pressure to deep vacuum pressure levels.

Abstract: An apparatus for coating tubular members, such as stents comprises a liquid reservoir and a stent support member for supporting, in use, a tubular member. Support member dipping means places the support member in the liquid reservoir in use and draws the support member therefrom. Pressure differential generating means generates a pressure differential. The stent support member is arranged to provide a central passageway through a stent placed thereon, the central passageway having a plurality of perforations formed therein, and the pressure differential generating means is arranged to generate, in use, a pressure differential between the passageway and the tubular member.

Abstract: A method for making a non-linear optical polymer layer. The method includes flash evaporating a liquid polymer precursor mixture containing a plurality of non-linear optical molecules forming an evaporate, cryocondensing the evaporate on a substrate forming a cyrocondensed polymer precursor layer, and crosslinking the cryocondensed polymer precursor layer. The surface may be electrically biased for poling during crosslinking.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of forming one or more thin films on a substrate by depositing two or more materials by vacuum evaporation, comprising, depositing each material under such control that ni value of the each material is k±0.

Abstract: Methods for making metal matrix composite articles such as wires and tapes. The metal matrix composites include a plurality of substantially continuous, longitudinally positioned fibers in a metal matrix. The fibers are selected from the group of ceramic fibers, boron, carbon fibers, and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: A backplane assembly for a substrate processing system that is selectively configurable to provide an effective thermal contact with substrates of differing sizes. The backplane assembly includes a backplane base installed in a vacuum chamber of the substrate processing system and plural faceplates which are removably mountable to the backplane base. The backplane assembly is operable for regulating the temperature of the substrate and include elements that promote the efficient transfer of heat between the backplane base and the faceplate to perform the temperature regulation during processing. Each of the faceplates has a contact surface dimensioned and configured to engage a correspondingly dimensioned and/or configured type of substrate. The faceplates are readily demountable from the backplane base for exchange to accommodate a change in the dimension and/or configuration of the substrates being processed by the substrate processing system without removing the backplane base from the vacuum chamber.

Abstract: A high-pressure vessel is allowed to be in an initial state, and a first chamber is disposed downward. Copper or copper alloy is placed in the first chamber, and SiC is set in a second chamber. The high-pressure vessel is tightly sealed, and then the inside of the high-pressure vessel is subjected to vacuum suction through a suction pipe. An electric power is applied to a heater to heat and melt the copper or copper alloy in the first chamber. At a stage at which the molten copper in the first chamber arrives at a predetermined temperature, the high-pressure vessel is inverted by 180 degrees to give a state in which SiC is immersed in the molten copper. An impregnating gas is introduced into the high-pressure vessel through a gas inlet pipe to apply a pressure to the inside of the high-pressure vessel. Thus, SiC is impregnated with the molten copper.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a resin thin film of the present invention includes supplying a liquid resin material and a gas to a two-fluid nozzle by pressure; ejecting the resin material in the form of atomized particles toward a heating member by the two-fluid nozzle, thereby adhering the resin material to the heating member; or mixing a liquid resin material with a gas; ejecting the resin material in form of atomized particles toward a heating member that is provided under reduced pressure, thereby adhering the resin material to the heating member; and evaporating the resin material on the heating member to obtain the evaporated resin material. Thus, the present invention can provide a resin thin film having a uniform thickness stably with simple means at a low cost. The resin thin film obtained by the present invention can be used in a wide range, for example a magnetic recording medium such as a magnetic tape, a wrapping material, and an electronic component.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a titanium nitride thin film at the surface of a substrate the chemical vapor deposition method (CVD method) includes supplying trakisdialkylamino titanium (TDAAT and ammonia into a reaction vessel, and heating it a prescribed temperature under a low pressure of less than 100 Pa total pressure, wherein the partial pressure PTDAAT of the source-material gas is set in a range of 0<PNH3/PTDAAT<10 with respect to the partial pressure PNH3 of the added ammonia gas.

Abstract: A manufacturing process of Christmas tree decorations where glass half-products are first blown to required dimensions and shapes, including the process stem. This glass half-product is fixed into the rack and placed into the metal-coating device where, under vacuum conditions, a thin (1 to 7 microns) layer of metals and/or their alloys is coated on its surface by vacuum plating or vacuum powder coating processes. The metal-coated surfaces created this way may be finished in various colors using clear and color varnishes either gloss or matt. The glass half-products for Christmas tree decorations may be provided with shading in the place of intended decor before the half-product is put into the vacuum metal-coating device. After the shading elements are removed, clear non-coated spots are created on the decoration surfaces. The rack accommodating the glass half-products of decorations is for their placement into the metal-coating device when above methods are performed.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of depositing silicon oxide films on the surface of semiconductor substrates, and more particularly to depositing such films by chemical vapor deposition using alkylsiloxane oligomers precursors with ozone.

Abstract: There provided a powder supply means for supplying a powdery mold releasing agent to a basin and a pressure reduction means for reducing a pressure in a cavity, and in a casting work the powdery mold releasing agent is supplied through a basin into a cavity while reducing a pressure in the cavity.