Abstract: Methods and systems of heating a substrate in a vacuum deposition process include a resistive heater having a resistive heating element. Radiative heat emitted from the resistive heating element has a wavelength in a mid-infrared band from 5 ?m to 40 ?m that corresponds to a phonon absorption band of the substrate. The substrate comprises a wide bandgap semiconducting material and has an uncoated surface and a deposition surface opposite the uncoated surface. The resistive heater and the substrate are positioned in a vacuum deposition chamber. The uncoated surface of the substrate is spaced apart from and faces the resistive heater. The uncoated surface of the substrate is directly heated by absorbing the radiative heat.

Abstract: A system and process for producing doped carbon nanomaterials is disclosed. A carbonate electrolyte including a doping component is provided during the electrolysis between an anode and a cathode immersed in carbonate electrolyte contained in a cell. The carbonate electrolyte is heated to a molten state. An electrical current is applied to the anode, and cathode, to the molten carbonate electrolyte disposed between the anode and cathode. A morphology element maximizes carbon nanotubes, versus graphene versus carbon nano-onion versus hollow carbon nano-sphere nanomaterial product. The resulting carbon nanomaterial growth is collected from the cathode of the cell.

Abstract: A light absorbing member includes a ceramic composite having a plurality of first ceramic particles exhibiting positive resistance temperature characteristics in a first ceramics having an open porosity of 5% or lower.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a conductive ceramic composition comprising: conductive non-oxide ceramic particles; oxide ceramic particles electrostatically bonded or co-dispersed with the non-oxide ceramic particles; and a binder resin.

Abstract: Although silicon-oxide based particles have stable capacity and high cycling efficiency as anode active material, they are known to suffer significant capacity loss during the first battery cycles. The addition of lithium silicate may help to mitigate the initial capacity loss, but it has been difficult to produce such anodes. During battery manufacture cell components are exposed to water, and lithium silicate is water soluble. As lithium silicate dissolves, the pH of the water increases, which can etch silicon, degrading the anode active material. Such degradation can be mitigated by doping lithium silicate with multivalent elements or by converting some silicon to metal silicide before water processing. Doping of lithium silicate makes it less soluble in water. And metal silicide is not as easily etched as silicon.

Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a substrate is proposed. The apparatus includes: a base plate including at least one first gas supply hole formed therein so as to allow supply of a temperature control gas; and an electrostatic chuck provided on the base plate to support the substrate, and including at least one second gas supply hole formed therein so as to be in communication with the at least one first gas supply hole, wherein the at least one second gas supply hole is formed before sintering of the electrostatic chuck.

Abstract: The ceramic structure 10 includes a discoid ceramic base 12 and an electrode 14 buried in the ceramic base 12. The ceramic base 12 is a sintered body composed principally of alumina or a rare-earth metal oxide and has a thermal expansion coefficient of 7.5 to 9.5 ppm/K over the range of 40° C. to 1200° C. The electrode 14 is composed principally of metal ruthenium. The electrode 14 may be formed in the shape of a sheet. Alternatively, the electrode 14 may be patterned in the manner of a one-stroke sketch so as to extend over the entire cross section of the ceramic base 12.

Abstract: In order to provide a zirconium boride that provides high caloric value at the time of its combustion with a compound having radicals such as perchlorate and can combust in a short period of time, while providing high physical stability, an amount of radical derived from lattice defect detected by ESR spectroscopy, is set to 0.1×1015 spin/mg or more.

Abstract: A negative active material includes a silicon-based alloy, and the silicon-based alloy includes a Si single phase, a FeSi2 alpha phase, and a FeSi2 beta phase, wherein an intensity ratio of a second diffraction peak of the FeSi2 beta phase to a first diffraction peak of the FeSi2 alpha phase may be 0.1 or higher. A negative electrode includes the negative active material and a lithium battery includes the negative electrode. Lifespan characteristics of the lithium battery including the negative active material may improve.

Abstract: A composite anode active material includes a first core member including a silicon-containing material; a second core member including at least one selected from metal nitride and metal carbide; and a coating layer on at least one of the first core member and the second core member. The coating layer contains metal silicide.

Abstract: A sintered body of the present invention contains yttrium oxyfluoride. The yttrium oxyfluoride is preferably YOF and/or Y5O4F7. The sintered body of the present invention preferably contains 50% by mass or more of yttrium oxyfluoride. The sintered body of the present invention has a relative density of preferably 70% or more and an open porosity of preferably 10% or less. Furthermore, the sintered body of the present invention has a three-point bending strength of preferably 10 MPa or more and 300 MPa or less.

Abstract: A honeycomb structural body 40 includes: a partition wall 48 formed of a porous ceramic which forms and defines a plurality of cells 47 each functioning as a flow path of a fluid and extending from one end surface to the other end surface; and an outer circumference wall 49 formed along the outermost circumference, where an oxide ceramic containing a Fe3O4 phase in which a solute component capable of forming a spinel-type oxide with Fe is solid-dissolved is formed.

Abstract: Compositions comprising ferrosoferric oxide dispersed in a polymer matrix. Such compositions may exhibit properties suitable for achieving both resistive field grading effects and capacitive field grading effects e.g. in electrical stress control devices and surge arrestor devices. Such compositions may optionally include one or more capacitive field grading additives and/or conductive additives.

Abstract: Disclosed is an MgO target for sputtering, which can accelerate a film formation rate even when MgO is used as a target for sputtering in the formation of an MgO film. The MgO target for sputtering, which includes MgO and an electroconductive material as main components, and in which the electroconductive material is capable of imparting orientation to a MgO film when the MgO film containing the electroconductive material is formed by a DC sputtering.

Abstract: Provided are: an apparatus and a method for producing a (metal plate)-(ceramic board) laminated assembly, a bonding material and a metal plate during the bonding of the metal plate to the ceramic board through the bonding-material layer and an apparatus and a method for producing a power-module substrate. An apparatus for producing a (metal plate)-(ceramic board) laminated assembly by laminating a metal plate having a temporary bonding material formed thereon on a ceramic board having a bonding-material layer formed thereon, the apparatus being equipped with: a conveying device which conveys the metal plate onto the ceramic board to laminate the ceramic board and the metal plate on each other; and a heating device which is arranged in the middle of a passage of the conveyance of the metal plate by the conveying device and melts the temporary-bonding material on the metal plate.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a plug, a variable resistance film provided on the plug, and an electrode provided on the variable resistance film. The variable resistance film includes, a first portion having a superlattice structure, and a second portion having an amorphous structure.

Abstract: Disclosed are silicon carbide powders and a method of preparing the same. The method includes forming a mixture by mixing a silicon (Si) source, a carbon (C) source, and a silicon carbide (SiC) seed, and reacting the mixture. The silicon carbide (SiC) powders include silicon carbide (SiC) grains having a ?-type crystal phase and a grain size in a range of about 5 ?m to about 100 ?m.

Abstract: In various embodiments, a precursor powder is pressed into an intermediate volume and chemically reduced, via sintering, to form a metallic shaped article.

Abstract: A method of fabricating silicon carbide powder according to the embodiment comprises the steps of preparing a mixture by mixing a silicon source comprising silicon, a silicon carbide source and a carbone source comprising at least one of a solid carbon and a organic compound; and reacting the mixture.

Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a layer sequence having an active layer that emits electromagnetic primary radiation, and at least one converter carrier layer arranged in the beam path of the electromagnetic primary radiation. The at least one converter carrier layer includes converter particles and an inorganic-organic hybrid material and/or a silicate glass.

Abstract: Provided are a multilayer chip ZnO varistor with base metal inner electrodes and a preparation method thereof. The varistor is formed by ceramic sheets and inner electrodes which were alternately laminated. Wherein the main material of inner electrodes is the base metal nickel(Ni), both ends of the varistor are coated with silver electrodes.

Abstract: A metal circuit structure, a method for forming a metal circuit and a liquid trigger material for forming a metal circuit are provided. The metal circuit structure includes a substrate, a first trigger layer and a first metal circuit layer. The first trigger layer is disposed on the substrate and includes a first metal circuit pattern. The first metal circuit layer is disposed on the first circuit pattern and is electrically insulated from the substrate. The composition of the first trigger layer includes an insulating gel and a plurality of trigger particles. The trigger particles are at least one of organometallic particles, a chelation and a semiconductor material having an energy gap greater than or equal to 3 eV. The trigger particles are disposed in the insulating gel, such that the dielectric constant of the first trigger layer after curing is between 2 and 6.5.

Abstract: A composite for providing electromagnetic shielding including a plurality of nanotubes; and a plurality of elongate metallic nanostructures.

Abstract: Compositions and methods of making are provided for treated mesoporous metal oxide microspheres electrodes. The compositions include microspheres with an average diameter between about 200 nanometers and about 10 micrometers and mesopores on the surface and interior of the microspheres. The methods of making include forming a mesoporous metal oxide microsphere composition and treating the mesoporous metal oxide microspheres by at least annealing in a reducing atmosphere, doping with an aliovalent element, and coating with a coating composition.

Abstract: A corona shield material (22) for producing a corona shield protective layer (16, 17) for an electric machine (1). The corona shield material (22) contains an initially flowable matrix material (22) which can be cured in a curing reaction to form a solid. The corona shield material (22) further contains a photosensitive initiator (24) which can be transformed by electromagnetic radiation (25) into a reactive state triggering the curing reaction. The corona shield material (22) further contains at least one electrically conductive filler (25) in particulate form.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic-coated heater in which the outer surface of a heater rod is coated with ceramic to improve the physical properties thereof including durability, corrosion resistance, and the like, thereby enabling the heater to be used in water or air. The outer surface of the heater rod is coated with a ceramic composition to which an acrylic corrosion resistant wax is added, thereby strengthening the bonding force of the coating layer film, and thus improving the physical properties thereof including durability, corrosion resistance, and the like to enable the heater to be used in water. Therefore, the ceramic-coated heater of the present invention enables high thermal conductivity using less current and reduces energy consumption so that it can be utilized in a wide variety of industrial fields.

Abstract: A composite for providing electromagnetic shielding including a plurality of nanotubes; and a plurality of elongate metallic nanostructures.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a device capable of having an easy production process and achieving a long lifetime. A device comprising a substrate, two or more electrodes facing each other disposed on the substrate and a positive hole injection transport layer disposed between two electrodes among the two or more electrodes, wherein the positive hole injection transport layer contains a transition metal compound-containing nanoparticle comprising a transition metal compound containing one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of a transition metal carbide oxide, transition metal nitride oxide and transition metal sulfide oxide, wherein a protecting agent having a linking group and a hydrophobic organic group is connected to the transition metal compound by the linking group.

Abstract: A composition comprising a Type 1 clathrate of silicon having a Si46 framework cage structure wherein the silicon atoms on said framework are at least partially substituted by carbon atoms, said composition represented by the formula CySi46-y with 1?y?45. The composition of may include one or more guest atoms A within the cage structure represented by the formula AxCySi46-y wherein A=H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr, Be, Mg, Ca. Sr, Ba, Ra, Eu, Cl, Br, or I or any metal or metalloid element and x is the number of said guest atoms within said cage structure.

Abstract: A thermistor material for a short range of low temperature use includes a matrix material composed of nitride-based and/or oxide-based insulating ceramics, conductive particles composed of ?-SiC and dispersed in the grain boundary of each crystal grain of the matrix material so as to form an electric conduction path. The thermistor material further contains boron and second conductive particles added thereto, which are composed of a metal or an inorganic compound, having a specific electric resistance value at room temperature lower than that of the ?-SiC and a melting point of 1700° C. or more. Such a thermistor material is produced by mixing matrix powder, conductive powder, second conductive powder, boron powder, and a sintering agent as necessary such that a temperature coefficient of resistance (B value) and a specific electric resistance value at room temperature are each within a predetermined range, and molding and sintering the resultant mixture.

Abstract: The present invention provides a Ti3SiC2 based material that exhibits excellent arc resistance, an electrode, a spark plug, and methods of manufacturing the same. A Ti3SiC2 based material according to the present invention includes Ti3SiC2 as a main phase, the Ti3SiC2 based material having a TiC content of 0.5 mass % or less and an open porosity of 0.5% or less. It may be preferable that 0 to 30 mol % of Si in the main phase Ti3SiC2 be substituted with Al. A spark plug according to the present invention includes an electrode formed using the Ti3SiC2 based material.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a device capable of having an easy production process and achieving a long lifetime. A device comprising a substrate, two or more electrodes facing each other disposed on the substrate and a positive hole injection transport layer disposed between two electrodes among the two or more electrodes, wherein the positive hole injection transport layer contains a transition metal compound-containing nanoparticle comprising a transition metal compound containing one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of a transition metal carbide oxide, transition metal nitride oxide and transition metal sulfide oxide, wherein a protecting agent having a linking group and a hydrophobic organic group is connected to the transition metal compound by the linking group.

Abstract: An active material for a lithium secondary battery includes an amorphous and metastable phase which contains silicon, oxygen, and more than 30 at % and 80 at % or less of carbon.

Abstract: An N work function metal for a gate stack of a field effect transistor (FinFET) and method of forming the same are provided. An embodiment FinFET includes a fin supported by a semiconductor substrate, the fin extending between a source and a drain and having a channel region, and a gate stack formed over the channel region of the fin, the gate stack including an N work function metal layer comprising an oxidation layer on opposing sides of a tantalum aluminide carbide (TaAlC) layer.

Abstract: Composite particles that include an electrochemically active metal phase, an insulating phase, and a conducting phase are provided that are useful active materials in negative electrodes for lithium-ion electrochemical cells. The electrochemically active phase includes silicon. Lithium-ion electrochemical cells are provided that include the provided composite composite particles as active materials in negative electrodes as well as methods of making the provided composite particles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composite material of formula: (C—N—B-MR)x(Al-MR)y(R)z in which C—N—B-MR is one or more carbides, nitrides or borides of one or more refractory metals of group IV, V or VI of the Periodic Table and/or one or more aluminium carbides, nitrides or borides chosen from Al4C3, AlN, AlB2 and Al1-67B22; Al-MR is one or more aluminides of one or more of the above refractory metals, it being understood that: if MR=Nb, Ta, Hf, Zr, Ti or V, then Al-MR=Al3MR; if MR=W or Cr, then Al-MR=Al4MR; if MR=Mo, then Al-MR=Al8Mo3 or Al17Mo4 (?Al4Mo), and R is a residual component other than carbon, comprising one or more phases chosen from Al4C3, AlN, AlB2, Al1-67B22 and MRtAlu(C—N—B)v in which t, u and v are numbers greater than or equal to zero, and x, y and z are the volume fractions of the respective components with x>y; x+y>0.5; x+y+z+1 and 0.01<y<0.5.

Abstract: A method for enhancing the lithium-ion capacity of a doped silicon carbide is disclosed. The method utilizes heat treating the silicon carbide in an inert atmosphere. Also disclosed are anodes for lithium-ion batteries prepared by the method.

Abstract: A copper-carbon composition including copper and carbon, wherein the copper and the carbon form a single phase material, and wherein the carbon does not phase separate from the copper when the material is heated to a melting temperature.

Abstract: A composite anode active material including metal core particles and carbon nanotubes that are covalently bound to the metal core particles, an anode including the composite anode active material, a lithium battery employing the anode, and a method of preparing the composite anode active material.

Abstract: A feed-through, for example a battery feed-through for a lithium-ion battery or a lithium ion accumulator, has at least one base body which has at least one opening through which at least one conductor, for example a pin-shaped conductor, embedded in a glass material is guided. The base body contains a low melting material, for example a light metal, such as aluminum, magnesium, AlSiC, an aluminum alloy, a magnesium alloy, titanium, titanium alloy or steel, in particular special steel, stainless steel or tool steel. The glass material consists of the following in mole percent: 35-50% P2O5, for example 39-48%; 0-14% Al2O3, for example 2-12%; 2-10% B2O3, for example 4-8%; 0-30% Na2O, for example 0-20%; 0-20% Li2O, for example 12-20%, wherein M is K, Cs or Rb; 0-10% PbO, for example 0-9%; 0-45% Li2O, for example 0-40% or 17-40%; 0-20% BaO, for example 5-20%; 0-10% Bi2O3, for example 1-5% or 2-5%.

Abstract: A method of: supplying sources of carbon and silicon into a chemical vapor deposition chamber; collecting exhaust gases from the chamber; performing mass spectrometry on the exhaust gases; and correlating a partial pressure of a carbon species in the exhaust gases to a carbon:silicon ratio in the chamber.

Abstract: A conductive fine powder includes flat metal/alloy fine particles. The flat metal/alloy fine particles have a nanocomposite structure in which crystalline or non-crystalline nanoparticles are mixed or formed in a matrix. The flat metal/alloy fine particles have a maximum thickness of 50 nm or less and a maximum diameter at least twice the thickness and contain a high-melting-point metal and a low-melting-point metal.

Abstract: Composite materials comprising titanium diboride, silicon carbide and carbon-containing scavenger additions are useful in electrolytic aluminum production cells. The carbon-containing scavenger additions may include tungsten carbide, boron carbide and/or carbon. The amounts of titanium diboride, silicon carbide and carbon-containing scavenger are controlled in order to provide optimum performance. The titanium diboride/silicon carbide composite materials may be used as cathodes in electrolytic aluminum production cells and are electrically conductive, exhibit desirable aluminum wetting behavior, and are capable of withstanding exposure to molten cryolite, molten aluminum and oxygen at elevated temperatures during operation of such cells.

Abstract: An alloy comprising tin, silicon and carbon, and containing a crystalline M-Sn phase, M being an inert metal. An alloy comprising tin and silicon, comprising: a) a nanocrystalline phase containing at least 50 at. % of the element silicon Si°; b) a nanocrystalline phase containing a compound based on tin; c) a nanocrystalline phase constituted by the element tin Sn°. A manufacturing process for this alloy.

Abstract: In a powder fabrication step (S1) in this method for producing a silicon carbide singe crystal, a metal material containing at least one of vanadium, niobium, and tungsten is mixed into silicon carbide powder as transition metal atoms for the silicon carbide powder, which is the source or silicon carbide, to produce a sublimation starting material (50). In a purification process step (S2), the sublimation starting material (50) is disposed in a purified graphite crucible (10), and a sublimation/growth step (S3) is carried out. When a growth height for this single crystal such that the donor concentration and acceptor concentration are equal in the single crystal of silicon carbide obtained by growth of sublimated raw material on a seed crystal in the sublimation/growth step (S3) is achieved, nitrogen gas is introduced at 0.5-100 ppm of an inert atmospheric gas.

Abstract: A thermoelectric oxide material having at least one family of periodic planar crystallographic defects, where the planar defect interspacings match a significant fraction of the phonon dispersion (free path distribution) in the oxide material. As an example, a sub-stoichiometric, composite thermoelectric oxide material can be represented by the formula NbO2.5?x:M, where 0<x?1.5 and M represents a second phase. Optionally, the material may be doped. The thermoelectric material displays a thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) of 0.15 or higher at 1050K. Methods of forming the thermoelectric materials involve combining and reacting raw materials under reducing conditions to form the sub-stoichiometric oxide composite. The second phase may promote reduction of the oxide. The reaction product can be sintered to form a dense thermoelectric material.

Abstract: A PTC conductive composite material and the overcurrent protection device made of the material are disclosed. The PTC conductive composite material includes: (a) A matrix of crystalline polymer material at least, occupies 20%-70% of the volume fraction of the PTC conductive composite material, (b) One kind of conductive filler occupies 30%-80% of the volume fraction of the material. The solid solution conductive filler is uniformly dispersed in the polymer material, whose average particle size ranges from 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m, and the volume resistivity is no more than 300 ??·cm. The overcurrent protection device prepared by using the PTC conductive composite material as described above includes two metal foils, which are made into a sandwich, separated by a layer of the PTC conductive composite material. And the advantages of the overcurrent protection device of the invention are low resistance, good reproducibility of resistance and well PTC intensity.

Abstract: Composite materials comprising titanium diboride, silicon carbide and carbon-containing scavenger additions are useful in electrolytic aluminum production cells. The carbon-containing scavenger additions may include tungsten carbide, boron carbide and/or carbon. The amounts of titanium diboride, silicon carbide and carbon-containing scavenger are controlled in order to provide optimum perfonnance. The titanium diboride/silicon carbide composite materials may be used as cathodes in electrolytic aluminum production cells and are electrically conductive, exhibit desirable aluminum wetting behavior, and are capable of withstanding exposure to molten cryolite, molten aluminum and oxygen at elevated temperatures during operation of such cells.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method to form a thick coat by an in-liquid pulsed electric discharge treatment, the electrode contains 40 volume % or more metallic material that is not carbonized or is hard to be carbonized.

Abstract: A composite for providing electromagnetic shielding including a plurality of elongate nanostructures; and a plurality of elongate conductive elements.