Abstract: There are provided plastic optical components which, in addition to their superior characteristics such as lightweightness, low cost and suitability for mass production, exhibit superior moisture barrier properties while experiencing extremely small changes in refractive index or other optical performance even if they are subjected to the effect of water in the environment; and an optical unit using such plastic optical components. The plastic optical component includes an optical component's body and an inorganic moisture-proof coating which is directly or indirectly formed by a plasma CVD process at least on surfaces of the optical component's body that contact outside air, and the plastic optical component is kept at a temperature of 80° C. or lower when the inorganic moisture-proof coating is formed by the plasma CVD process.

Abstract: An absorbing layer of a low-E coating is designed to cause the coating to have a more bluish color at normal and/or certain off-axis viewing angles. In certain example embodiments, the metallic or substantially metallic absorbing layer (e.g., NiCr) is located in the middle section of the layer stack and has been found to unexpectedly provide desirable bluish glass side reflective color for the coated article at certain off-axis viewing angles (e.g., at a 45 degree off-axis viewing angle). In certain example embodiments, the absorbing layer is provided between first and second nitride inclusive or based layers in order to reduce or prevent oxidation thereof during heat treatment thereby permitting predictable coloration to be achieved following the heat treatment. Coated articles according to certain example embodiments of this invention may be used in the context of insulating glass (IG) window units, vehicle windows, other types of windows, or in any other suitable application.

Abstract: A composite silicone rubber powder comprising: (A) a silicone rubber powder having an average particle size within the range of 0.1 to 500 ?m and hardness of at least 15 by type A durometer according to JIS K 6253, wherein the surface of said silicone rubber powder is coated with (B) a microfine inorganic powder having the BET specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g, said composite silicone rubber powder being characterized by the fact that the surface thereof is treated with (C) an organic silicon compound having a silicon-bonded hydrolyzable group, or with a product of partial hydrolysis of said compound, is characterized by excellent dispersibility in coating and cosmetic materials and having the possibility of improving matting properties of coating materials, and feel of use of cosmetic materials.

Abstract: Atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) is applied to the fabrication of new forms of rare-earth oxides, rare-earth nitrides and rare-earth phosphides. Further, ternary compounds composed of binary (rare-earth oxides, rare-earth nitrides and rare-earth phosphides) mixed with silicon and or germanium to form compound semiconductors of the formula RE—(O, N, P)—(Si,Ge) are also disclosed, where RE=at least one selection from group of rare-earth metals, O=oxygen, N=nitrogen, P=phosphorus, Si=silicon and Ge=germanium. The presented ALE growth technique and material system can be applied to silicon electronics, opto-electronic, magneto-electronics and magneto-optics devices.

Abstract: A coated article is provided that may be used as a vehicle windshield, insulating glass (IG) window unit, or the like. An ion beam is used during at least part of forming an infrared (IR) reflecting layer(s) of such a coated article. Advantageously, this has been found to improve sheet resistance (Rs) properties, solar control properties, and/or durability of the coated article. Other layers may also be ion beam treated in certain example embodiments.

Abstract: A method of producing a silica or silica-like coating by forming a precursor formulation from oligomeric organosilicate. The precursor formulation is coated on a substrate as a continuous liquid phase. The precursor formulation is then cured in an ammoniacal atmosphere to produce a continuous, interconnected, nano-porous silica network.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass substrate which is characterized in that it has a primer layer that is formed thereon and includes a hydrolysis product of a hydrolysable silicon compound having an alkylene group and a hydrolysis product of a hydrolysable zirconium compound or hydrolysable titanium compound, and that, in the primer layer, zirconium is in an amount by weight ratio of 0.0002 times to 0.0025 times that of silicon, or titanium is in an amount by weight ratio of 0.0005 times to 0.0045 times that of silicon. Furthermore, the present invention relates to an anti-fogging article having a resin film that exhibits water-absorptive property and/or hydrophilic property and is formed on the primer layer of the glass substrate.

Abstract: A multi-layer antimicrobial hydrophilic coating is applied to a substrate of anodized aluminum, although other materials may form the substrate. A silver layer is sputtered onto a thoroughly clean anodized surface of the aluminum to about 400 nm thickness. A layer of crosslinked, silicon-based macromolecular structure about 10 nm thickness overlies the silver layer, and the outermost surface of the layer of crosslinked, silicon-based macromolecular structure is hydroxide terminated to produce a hydrophilic surface with a water drop contact angle of less than 10°. The coated substrate may be one of multiple fins in a condensing heat exchanger for use in the microgravity of space, which has narrow channels defined between angled fins such that the surface tension of condensed water moves water by capillary flow to a central location where it is pumped to storage. The antimicrobial coating prevents obstruction of the capillary passages.

Abstract: A gas barrier laminate film including at least one inorganic layer and at least one organic layer on a base material film, wherein the organic layer is a layer formed by ring opening polymerization of at least one kind of oxetanyl group-containing monomer. The gas barrier film can exhibit superior gas barrier properties even if it is flexed and is preferably applicable in image display devices, such as liquid crystal display devices and organic EL devices.

Abstract: A bonding method includes: preparing a first substrate and a second substrate; forming a liquid coating film by applying a liquid material including silicone to at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate; drying the liquid coating film so as to obtain a bonding film; and developing adhesiveness around a surface of the bonding film by applying energy to the bonding film so as to obtain a bonded body obtained by bonding the first substrate and the second substrate each other with the bonding film interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. In the device, bonding strength of the bonding film is adjusted by appropriately setting a condition for applying the energy.

Abstract: Interlayer insulating films 5,7 (insulating films) provided in a memory capacitor cell 8 are formed between a gate electrode 3 and a counter electrode 8C formed on a silicon wafer 1. The interlayer insulating films 5,7 comprise a borazine-based resin, having a specific dielectric constant of no greater than 2.6, a Young's modulus of 5 GPa or greater and a leak current of no greater than 1×10?8 A/cm2.

Abstract: Coated substrates containing a barrier layer comprising hydrogenated silicon oxycarbide having a density of at least 1.6 g/cm3 and methods of preparing the coated substrates.

Abstract: A curable resin composition comprising an insulating polymer such as an alicyclic olefin polymer, a curing agent, and an inorganic filler, wherein the inorganic filler is silica particles whose surface is bound with 0.1 to 30% by weight, based on the weight of the silica particles, of an alkoxy group-containing silane-modified resin (I) whose weight average molecular weight is 2,000 or more; a shaped material formed by shaping the curable resin composition; and a multilayer printed circuit board obtained by thermally compressing and curing the shaped material on a substrate having a conductor layer on its surface to form an electrically insulating layer.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fixing member which includes a surface layer including fluorine rubber having an ether bond and a polysiloxane having a polyether structure, and which has excellent adhesion between the surface layer and a substrate. A fixing member is provided including a substrate, an adhesion layer and a surface layer disposed in contact with the adhesion layer, wherein the surface layer includes fluorine rubber having an ether bond and a polysiloxane having a polyether structure, and wherein the adhesion layer contains a polyorganosiloxane resin and an existence ratio of carbon combining with oxygen to silicon combining with oxygen in the adhesion layer is 1.0 or more and 20.0 or less.

Abstract: An electronic device comprises a substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface, a substrate carrier comprising a first surface and a second surface, and an inorganic material bonding the second surface of the substrate and the second surface of the substrate carrier.

Abstract: A method of making a coated article including a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) film supported by a tempered glass substrate is provided. Initially, an amorphous metal oxide film is sputter-deposited onto a non-tempered glass substrate, either directly or indirectly. The glass substrate with the amorphous film thereon is then thermally tempered using high temperatures. The thermal tempering causes the amorphous film to be transformed into a crystalline transparent conductive oxide (TCO) film. The heat used in the thermal tempering of the glass substrate causes the amorphous film to turn into a crystalline film, causes the visible transmission of the film to increase, and/or causes the film to become electrically conductive.

Abstract: An insulating glass (IG) window unit, or other suitable window unit, includes a glass substrate with a coating thereon. The coating includes a lower contact layer based on zinc oxide and/or at least one silicon nitride inclusive layer that is Si-rich (i.e., non-stoichiometric). Using such a design, it has been found that coloration can be adjusted in order to achieve certain desirable optical characteristics.

Abstract: The invention provides a photocurable polymer composition having a fluorine-containing polymer and a fluorine-free polymer, and preferably further having a polymerizable double bond-containing compound and a photopolymerization initiator. The fluorine-containing polymer preferably includes a fluorosilsesquioxane skeleton.

Abstract: The invention relates to composite articles comprising a substrate and additional layers on the substrate. According to one example, the layers are selected so that the difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) between the substrate and a first layer on one side of the substrate is substantially equal to the CTE difference between the substrate and a second layer on the other side of the substrate. The stress caused by the CTE difference and/or shrinkage on one side of the substrate during heating or cooling is balanced by the stress caused by the CTE difference on the other side of the substrate during heating or cooling. Such stress balancing can reduce or minimize curling of the substrate.

Abstract: Adhesive silicone elastomer sheet afforded by the cure of a hydrosilylation-curing silicone elastomer composition comprising: (A) an organopolysiloxane that contains at least one diorganosiloxane unit and that has at least two silicon-bonded alkenyl groups in each molecule, (B) an organopolysiloxane resin with the average unit formula: (R13SiO1/2)x(SiO4/2)1.0 in which R1 is substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group and x is a number from 0.5 to 1.0, (C) an organopolysiloxane that contains at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms in each molecule, and (D) a hydrosilylation catalyst. The adhesive silicone elastomer sheet is transparent, and whose surface exhibits a stable and permanent adhesiveness.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display strip easy for automating the process of bonding product-enclosed bags and capable of bonding the product-enclosed bags once removed again.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mask blank used for the charged particle beam exposure made by employing an SOI substrate having a silicon membrane higher reliability in quality, without the problem of deformation due to the compression stress of a silicon oxide film as an intermediate layer of the SOI substrate, and provides a method for forming a mask blank and a mask used for the charged particle beam exposure. The mask blank used for the charged particle beam exposure made by employing an SOI substrate having a front-side silicon membrane and a back-side silicon layer with a silicon oxide layer interposed therebetween is characterized in that the back-side silicon layer and the silicon oxide film of said SOI substrate are partially removed to form an opening to be an exposed region and an etching stop layer having lower stress is formed in the opening.

Abstract: Anti-reflective (AR) coated transparent substrates and methods of making the same are provided wherein the AR coating includes a fluorinated polymer. Preferably, the anti-reflective transparent articles and methods of making the same include a transparent substrate (e.g., glass), and an anti-reflective coating formed of a fluorinated polymer on one (or both) surface(s) of the substrate. If coated on both surfaces of the glass sheet, the fluorinated polymer forming one of the coatings may be the same or different as compared to the fluorinated polymer forming the other coating. In especially preferred embodiments, the fluorinated polymer is the reaction product of at least one fluorinated acrylic ester monomer which is formed over an anchor layer of a hydrolyzed unsaturated alkyl silane adsorbed onto the substrate surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent conductor provided with a base comprising a first a resin, a conductive layer comprising conductive particles and a second resin, and an intermediate layer composed of a third resin formed between the base and the conductive layer, wherein the glass transition temperature Tg of the intermediate layer is lower than the Tg of the conductive layer.

Abstract: A photocatalytic material which comprises a resin base and photocatalyst particles tenaciously deposited thereon in such a manner that the function of the photocatalyst is not impaired. Even when the photocatalytic material is used over long, the photocatalyst particles are less apt to shed and the resin base is less apt to deteriorate. In the photocatalytic material, the photocatalyst particles have been bonded to the base by chemical bonding through a silane compound. The photocatalytic material is characterized in that the chemical bonding through a silane compound is bonding by graft polymerization, and that the graft polymerization is radiation-induced graft polymerization.

Abstract: To provide an adhesive comprising an acrylic resin (1), an acrylic resin (2), a silicone oligomer (3) and a crosslinking agent (4): wherein the acrylic resin (1) comprises a structural unit (a) derived from a monomer (A) and a structural unit (b) derived from a monomer (B) and has a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000,000 to 2,000,000, wherein the (A) is a (meth)acrylic ester represented by the formula (A) (wherein R1 represents hydrogen atom or methyl group, and R2 represents alkyl or aralkyl groups having 1 to 14 carbon atoms wherein hydrogen atom(s) of the R2 may be substituted with alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms), and the (B) is at least any one of a (B-1) and a (B-2) wherein the (B-1) is a monomer comprising carboxyl group and one olefinic double bond, and the (B-2) is a monomer comprising at least one polar functional group selected from the group consisted of hydroxyl group, amide group, amino group, epoxy group, oxetanyl group, aldehyde group and isocyanate group and an olef

Abstract: The invention relates to a glazing assembly comprising at least one transparent substrate, especially made of glass, provided with a thin-film multilayer comprising, in the following order starting from the substrate, at least: (a) a first dielectric layer comprising a barrier layer acting as a barrier to the diffusion of oxygen and chosen from silicon nitrides; (b) a lower stabilizing layer made of a metal or metal alloy X; (c) a functional layer having reflection properties in the infrared and/or in the solar radiation, especially a metal layer; (d) an upper metal blocking layer made of a metal or metal alloy Y; (e) a second dielectric layer comprising a barrier layer acting as a barrier to the diffusion of oxygen and chosen from silicon nitrides; and (f) optionally, a protective oxide layer; in which multilayer the metal or alloy X of the lower stabilizing layer is different from the metal or alloy Y of the upper blocking layer.

Abstract: Provided is a film which can be industrially coated easily and exhibits excellent gas barrier performance without being subjected to a high-temperature heat treatment. The film exhibits good gas barrier performance immediately after the production, and maintains the excellent gas barrier performance while exhibiting excellent hot water resistance and printing resistance.

Abstract: A bonded body having high dimensional accuracy and manufactured easily without problems which occur in the solid bonding method and a method of manufacturing such a bonded body are provided. The bonded body includes a first base member having a first bonding surface; a second base member having a second bonding surface; and a bonding film through which the first base member and the second base member are boded together, the bonding film having two surfaces each making contact with the first bonding surface and the second bonding surface, the bonding film including a silicone portion containing a silicone material composed of silicone compounds and a plurality of gap members that regulate a distance between the first base member and the second base member, at least a part of the gap members provided in the silicone portion.

Abstract: An image transfer sheet for electrophotography comprising a substrate and at least one layer including an image receiving layer on one side surface of the substrate, wherein at least one layer of the layers is a curable resin-containing layer which is a layer separable from the substrate or a layer disposed between the curable resin-containing layer and the substrate on the one side surface. Also provided are a method for manufacturing the image recorded medium which use the image transfer sheet for electrophotography and an image recorded medium.

Abstract: The radiation-selective absorber coating (20) has two barrier layers (24a, 24b), an IR-reflecting layer (21) arranged thereon, an absorption layer (22) arranged above the IR-reflecting (21) and an antireflection layer (23) over the absorption layer (22). The absorber tube (13) is a steel tube (1) with the radiation-selective absorber coating (20) applied to the outside thereof. In the process of coating the absorber tube (13) a first oxide barrier layer (24a) is applied to a steel tube by thermal oxidation; a second barrier layer (24b) is then applied by physical gas phase deposition of silicon with supply of oxygen; the IR-reflecting layer (21) is then applied by gas phase deposition of gold, silver, platinum or copper; the absorption layer (22) is then applied by deposition of aluminium and molybdenum; and a final antireflection layer (23) is applied by deposition of silicon with supply of oxygen.

Abstract: A process for production of an assembly including several silicone elements crosslinked by polyaddition of ?Si—H units onto ?Si-alkenyl (preferably ?Si-vinyl) units, the elements adhering to one another without detracting from their mechanical properties. The process includes: (I) forming (1st coating) a silicone element (i) with a liquid silicone preparation (i) containing polyorganosiloxanes (POS) A with ?Si-vinyl units, (POS) B with ?Si—H units, a platinum catalyst C; (II) crosslinking so that (i) has a surface density SD of unreacted, residual vinyl, per nm2, of 0.0100?SD?0.0040; (III) optionally repeating steps (I) and (II) n times to give n elements (i) that adhere to one another; (IV) forming (2nd coating) a silicone element (ii) with a liquid silicone preparation (ii) of the same type as described above; (v) crosslinking to give crosslinked (ii) that adheres to (i).

Abstract: A bonded structure formed by bonding a first structure and a second structure at opposed bonding surfaces to form a microstructure or the like. At least one of the first structure and the second structure is formed of a resin composition including a polypropylene resin and a hydrogenated derivative of a block copolymer of the following general formula X-Y (X is a polymer block immiscible with the polypropylene resin, and Y is a conjugated diene elastomer polymer block). The bonding surfaces are bonded by heating an alkoxysilane or alkylsilane compound or a mixture prepared by adding a hydrogenated derivative of a block copolymer of the general formula X-Y to an alkoxysilane or alkylsilane compound applied to the bonding surface.

Abstract: Corundum coated with a silicone compound containing a silicone resin, a resin composition containing the corundum, and an electronic device using an electronic part or semiconductor element, which transmits heat through the resin composition, by which a good affinity between a resin and corundum is obtained and a kneaded product assured of a low viscosity, a uniform dispersibility and when a curable resin is used as the matrix resin, a high curing rate, is yielded so that the handling and moldability of the resin composition can be enhanced.

Abstract: An enhanced environmental barrier coating for a silicon containing substrate. The enhanced barrier coating may include a bond coat doped with at least one of an alkali metal oxide and an alkali earth metal oxide. The enhanced barrier coating may include a composite mullite bond coat including BSAS and another distinct second phase oxide applied over said surface.

Abstract: A gas barrier laminate film comprising a resin substrate on which a gas barrier vapor deposition layer, and a gas barrier covering layer are laminated, wherein the gas barrier covering layer is formed through the coating, and drying of a coating liquid comprising Si(OR1)4 or the hydrolyzates thereof, (R2Si(OR3)3)n or the hydrolyzates thereof (wherein R1 and R3 are individually CH3, C2H5 or C2H4OCH3, and R2 is an organic functional group) and a water-soluble polymer having a hydroxyl group.

Abstract: A substrate for light-emitting diodes, which uses no fluorescent powder, enables formation of a good light-emitting diode element, resulting in less deterioration, transmits light of the light-emitting diode element, emits light by utilizing a part of the transmitted light, and allows the transmitted light and newly emitted light to be mixed and emitted, is provided. The substrate for light-emitting diodes of the present invention is a substrate for light-emitting diodes, obtained by stacking a single crystal layer enabling to form a light-emitting diode element thereon and a ceramic composite layer for light conversion comprising a solidified body having formed therein at least two or more oxide phases selected from a single metal oxide and a complex metal oxide to be continuously and three-dimensionally entangled with each other, wherein at least one oxide phase out of oxide phases in the solidified body contains a metal element oxide capable of emitting fluorescence.

Abstract: Tagged barrier coatings including an environmental barrier coating, a thermal barrier coating, or a combination thereof, and from about 0.01 mol % to about 30 mol % of a taggant.

Abstract: A binder, a composition, a product and a kit, as well as a process for preparing the binder and composition, are directed to a composition useful as an inorganic phosphate binder, which binder is characterized as having calcium silicate sites which are connected the one with the other by alumina-silica phosphate bonds, and a filler.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a floor covering based on linoleum having improved fire-protection properties, comprising at least one wear layer made of linoleum, which contains at least one phosphorus-containing compound, solution, suspension, or dispersion as a liquid/viscous flame retardant in a quantity of up to 20 weight-percent, in relation to the quantity of the wear layer, as well as a method for the manufacture thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a floor covering based on cork having improved flame protection properties, comprising at least one phosphorus-containing compound, solution, suspension, or dispersion as a liquid/viscous flame retardant in a quantity of up to 20 weight-percent, in relation to the quantity of the wear layer.

Abstract: A composite structure for microlithography, in particular a holding device for a wafer, has two or more components, the surfaces of which are bonded together at least at one bond. At least one of the components consists of cordierite (Mg2Al4Si5O18) or of silicon carbide (SiC). Also disclosed is an optical arrangement, in particular a projection illumination apparatus for microlithography, having at least one such composite structure, preferably a wafer stage.

Abstract: A wafer has a rare earth fluoride coating disposed, typically sprayed on a substrate as an outermost layer, the rare earth fluoride being selected from lanthanoid fluorides, yttrium fluoride, and scandium fluoride. It is useful as a dummy wafer in a plasma etching or deposition system.

Abstract: A heat fixing roll or belt having a silicone rubber layer which is formed by curing a silicone rubber composition comprising (A) 100 pbw of an organopolysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded alkenyl radicals in a molecule, (B) 20-500 pbw of a metallic silicon powder having an average particle size of up to 100 ?m, and (C) an effective amount of a curing agent. The silicone rubber layer has a high heat conductivity and long-term temperature durability.

Abstract: The invention relates to a layer system for the formation of a surface layer on a surface of a substrate, in particular on the surface of a tool, wherein the layer system includes at least one first hard layer of the composition (MoSipAYq)?(NrCsOt)? with (o+p+q)=?, (r+s+t)=?, and (?+?)=100, wherein 40???60 and wherein M is at least one metal of the group of the chemical elements consisting of Al and the elements of the secondary groups IVb, Vb, VIb of the periodic system of elements. In accordance with the invention the component AY is at least one element of the group of the chemical elements consisting of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and the elements of the secondary group IIIB and the elements of the main group IA, IIA and IIIA and the elements of the group of the lanthanoids of the periodic system of chemical elements, with AY preferably additionally containing boron.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a large substrate with a locally integrated single crystalline silicon layer is provided. The method includes: forming a buffer layer on a support plate; separately fabricating a single crystalline silicon layer; attaching the single crystalline silicon layer having a predetermined thickness, which is separately fabricated, to a predetermined portion in the support plate; forming a non-single crystalline silicon layer having a predetermined thickness to cover the single crystalline silicon layer and the buffer layer; and processing the non-single crystalline silicon layer to expose a surface of the non-single crystalline silicon layer and to level the surface of the non-single crystalline silicon layer with a surface of the amorphous silicon layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thin film material including a substrate (10) and an underlying layer (11) formed on the substrate. A large number of recesses of an extremely small size are demonstrated in a surface of the underlying layer (11). On this surface of the underlying layer is formed a magnetic film (12) or a non-magnetic film (12).

Abstract: There is provided a hard-to-sinter constraining green sheet and a method of manufacturing a multilayer ceramic substrate using the same. The hard-to-sinter constraining green sheet disposed at least one of top and bottom surfaces of a non-sintered multi-layer ceramic substrate, the hard-to-sinter constraining green sheet including: a first constraining layer having a surface to be positioned on the multi-layer ceramic substrate, the first constraining layer including a first organic binder and a first inorganic binder having a spherical shape or a quasi-spherical shape; and a second constraining layer bonded to a top surface of the first constraining layer and including a second organic binder and a second inorganic powder having a flake shape, the second constraining layer having a powder packing density lower than a powder packing density of the first constraining layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to architectural elements possessing at least two components bonded together employing a silicone rubber composition of high stability and translucency, which is useful for application as a bedding sealant in the manufacture of such architectural elements as window assemblies, door assemblies, structural glazing, curtainwall applications, and the like.

Abstract: A resin-coated steel plate obtained by providing, on at least one surface of the steel plate, (i-1) an alloy layer of iron and at least one metal selected from tin, zinc and nickel or (i-2) a tin-plated layer containing tin in an amount of not smaller than 0.5 g/m2, (ii) a silane coupling agent-treated layer, and (iii) a thermoplastic polyester resin layer in this order from the side of the steel plate. Despite not containing chromium, the resin-coated steel plate exhibits excellent work adhesion properties between the steel blank and the organic resin film even when the thickness is reduced due to a severe working and even at portions subjected to severe working such as flanging and necking. By press-forming the resin-coated steel plate, there are obtained cans featuring excellent corrosion resistance and being adapted to containing even highly corrosive contents.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminating film comprising: a flexible film that is transparent at least in part; a flexible chip fastened to a face of the film; and a thickness-compensating layer, covering the film at least in part around the chip.