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Methods are provided for forming optical devices, such as waveguides, with minimal defect formation. In one aspect, the invention provides a method for forming a waveguide structure on a substrate surface including forming a cladding layer on the substrate surface, forming a core layer on the cladding layer, depositing an amorphous carbon hardmask on the core layer, forming a patterned photoresist layer on the amorphous carbon hardmask, etching the amorphous carbon hardmask, and etching the core material.

The disclosure describes methods for producing bulk, particulate material that includes solid, generally ellipsoidal particles. Irregularly shaped feed particles with average particle sizes of up to 25 microns on a volume basis are dispersed in at least a portion of a combustible gas mixture by application of force and/or fluidizing agents. The combustible mixture with particles in suspension is then delivered, while controlling agglomeration or re-agglomeration of the particles, to at least one flame front. There, the mixture and suspended particles are uniformly distributed across the surface(s) of and passed through the flame front(s) with a high concentration of particles in the mixture. This flame front and the resultant flame(s) with suspended particles are located in at least one "wall free" zone. In such zone(s) the flame(s) may expand while the particles are maintained in dispersion and heated, with controlled and highly efficient application of heating energy. At least partial fusion occurs within at least the surfaces of the particles at high thermal efficiencies, while agglomeration of particles during fusion is inhibited.

A lithium ion conductive solid electrolyte formed by sintering a molding product containing an inorganic powder and having a porosity of 10 vol % or less, which is obtained by preparing a molding product comprising an inorganic powder as a main ingredient and sintering the molding product after pressing and/or sintering the same while pressing, the lithium ion conductive solid electrolyte providing a solid electrolyte having high battery capacity without using a liquid electrolyte, usable stably for a long time and simple and convenient in manufacture and handling also in industrial manufacture in the application use of secondary lithium ion battery or primary lithium battery, a solid electrolyte having good charge/discharge cyclic characteristic in the application use of the secondary lithium ion battery a solid electrolyte with less water permeation and being safe when used for lithium metal-air battery in the application use of primary lithium battery, a manufacturing method of the solid electrolyte, and a secondary lithium ion battery and a primary lithium battery using the solid electrolyte.

A porous composite suitable for filling a recess or a through-passing hole in an implant. The composite includes particles A prepared from a bioactive material and particles B prepared from a non-bioactive material or weakly bioactive material, which is sintratable with the bioactive material, such that particles A and particles B have been sintered together to a porous composite. Particles A and particles B are essentially homogeneous in size. Also disclosed is an implant which contains a core and the composite.

PCT No. PCT/US97/22760 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 10, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 10, 1999 PCT Filed Dec. 12, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/26315 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 18, 1999A planar optical device is formed on a substrate (12) and comprising an array of waveguide cores (14) and a cladding layer (16) formed contiguously with the cores. At least one of the array of waveguide cores (14) and the cladding layer (16) is an inorganic-organic hybrid material that comprises an extended matrix containing silicon and oxygen atoms with at least a fraction of the silicon being directly bonded to substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon atoms. In accordance with other embodiments of the invention, a method of forming an array of cores comprises the steps of preparing a core composition precursor material; partially hydrolyzing and polymerizing the material; forming an array of waveguide cores under conditions effective to form an inorganic-organic hybrid material that comprises an extended matrix containing silicon and oxygen atoms with at least a fraction of the silicon being directly bonded to substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon atoms.

The invention is directed to ultra-low expansion glasses to which adjustments have been made to selected variables in order to improve the properties of the glasses, and particularly to lower the expansivity of the glasses. The glasses are titania-doped silica glasses. The variables being adjusted include an adjustment in β-OH level; an adjustment to the cooling rate of the molten glass material through the setting point; and the addition of selected dopants to impact the CTE behavior.

Lithium disilicate based glass-ceramics contain high strength ceramic components for use in the manufacture of dental products. The glass-ceramics have good pressability, i.e., the ability to be formed into dental products by heat-pressing using commercially available equipment. The strength of the dental articles is increased with the inclusion of the high strength ceramic components.

The invention relates to manufacturing glass fiber preforms. It relates to a method comprising rotating preform about its own axis, and displacing a plasma torch in translation relative to the preform in a direction parallel to the axis of the preform, the axes of the flame and of the preform and being offset by a certain distance, and then inserting glass powder into the plasma flame under gravity. According to the invention, the glass powder is accelerated before penetrating into the plasma flame by means of an accelerator gas, and the offset distance between the axes is reduced with increasing acceleration of the powder. The invention is applicable to manufacturing glass fibers, and in particular optical fibers.

A number of unique processes are disclosed for manufacture of sintered high-purity quartz glass products in which a shaped silica body or preform is made from an aqueous slurry of micronized silica particles by gel casting, slip casting or electrophoretic deposition. The silica particles may comprise a major portion by weight of crystalline silica. In one embodiment of the invention the sintered quartz glass is transparent, substantially bubble-free and suitable for scientific or optical uses. In another embodiment the porous silica preform is fired in steam to increase the hydroxyl content and then nitrided in a nitrogen-hydrogen reducing atmosphere. A minute amount of chemically-combined nitrogen in the high-purity quartz glass is sufficient to provide a tremendous improvement in physical properties and an incredible increase in the resistance to devitrification.

The invention provides a mold for processing a glass container and belongs to the technical field of mold. The mold includes a pair of half molds that are opposite to each other and have the same shape, and a mold cavity is formed in each half mold. The mold is characterized in that vertical through ventilation holes which are communicated with each other are alternatively distributed around the mold cavity at the height direction of the half molds. The invention has the advantages that the bottle temperature can be cooled effectively due to the through ventilation holes around the mold cavity at the height direction, thus preventing the bottle from being deformed by high temperature and guaranteeing the strength of the half molds.

The present invention relates to a process for producing sulfide glass or sulfide glass ceramic each capable of conducting a lithium ion, comprising subjecting metallic lithium, sulfur as a simple substance and phosphorus as a simple substance as starting raw materials, which constitute the sulfide glass and sulfide glass ceramic, to mechanical milling to thereby convert them into sulfide glass or sulfide glass ceramic; and a whole solid type cell using the above-mentioned sulfide glass ceramic as a solid electrolyte. According to the present invention, it is made possible to produce sulfide glass and sulfide glass ceramic which are each capable of conducting a lithium ion and which have high electroconductivity at room temperature by a simple and advantageous process from starting raw materials being easily available and inexpensive.

A synthetic quartz glass for an optical member which is free from compaction and rarefaction is obtained.

A synthetic quartz glass for an optical member to be used for an optical device employing a light having a wavelength of at most 400 nm and at least 170 nm as a light source, which contains substantially no oxygen excess defects, dissolved oxygen molecules nor reduction type defects, which has a chlorine concentration of at most 50 ppm and a OH group concentration of at most 100 ppm, and which contains oxygen deficient defects within a concentration range of at most 5×10¹⁴ defects/cm³ and at least 1×10¹³ defects/cm³. The fluorine concentration is preferably at most 100 ppm.

A resorbable, macroporous bioactive glass scaffold comprising approximately 24-45% CaO, 34-50% SiO₂, 0-25% Na₂O, 5-17% P₂O₅, 0-5% MgO and 0-1% CaF₂ by mass percent, produced by mixing with pore forming agents and specified heat treatments.

An apparatus and process for making glass soot sheet and sintered glass sheet. Glass soot particles are deposited on a curved deposition surface of a rotating drum to form a soot sheet. The soot sheet is then released from the deposition surface. The soot sheet can be sintered into a consolidated glass. The soot sheet and the sintered glass can be sufficiently long and flexible to be reeled into a roll.

The invention provides a mold for processing a glass container and belongs to the technical field of mold. The mold includes a pair of half molds that are opposite to each other and a pair of bottom molds at the bottom of the half molds, a mold cavity is respectively opened along the height direction at the middle of each side of the opposing sides of the two half molds. The mold is characterized in that a vacuum groove is respectively opened at each side along the height direction of the mold cavity, and ventholes which are equal in number with the vacuum grooves and are communicated with the vacuum grooves are opened at the side edge of the bottom mold core, also a central hole for connecting with the vacuum pipeline is opened at the center of the bottom mold core and the central hole is communicated with the venthole. The mold has the advantages that the pair of half molds can have ideal closing effect due to the vacuum grooves at each side of the mold cavity, which restricts the deformation of the half molds, and guarantees that the glass container is smooth and has good quality.

A crucible with 22 inches or more in inner diameter, which has a small deformation of the body under exposure to abundant heat radiation during pulling a single crystal, and which has no practical problem, and a method of producing the same are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: feeding first silicon dioxide powder along an inner surface of a rotating mold having a gas permeable wall to form a piled up layer of the first silicon dioxide powder; heating the piled up layer from the inside space of the mold to have the first silicon dioxide powder molten to provide the opaque outer layer as a substrate, while vacuum suction is effected through the wall; generating a high temperature gas atmosphere in an inside space of the substrate during or after the formation of the opaque outer layer; feeding second silicon dioxide powder into the high temperature gas atmosphere to have the second silicon dioxide powder molten at least partly; and directing the second silicon dioxide powder in an at least partly molten form toward an inner surface of the substrate to have the second silicon dioxide powder deposited on the inner surface of the substrate to thereby form the transparent inner layer thereon, the transparent inner layer being of a predetermined thickness and substantially free of bubbles.

The invention belongs to the field of inorganic non-metallic materials, and relates to the improvement of technology for preparing a fused quartz ceramic crucible. The method for preparing the fused quartz ceramic crucible comprises the steps of mixing-pulping-adding catalyst and initiator-gelatinating-drying- sintering. In the method, multi-stage fused quartz powder is taken as a raw material to prepare the quartz ceramic crucible by gel casting. The quartz ceramic crucible can realize even mixing of multiple dimensioned materials; furthermore, the prepared crucible has uniform structure, controllable porosity as well as excellent thermal shock resistance and high temperature resistance and can meet the requirements of technique and production of polysilicon. In addition, the technique has simple process and no environmental pollution, and is suitable for commercial process.

A method for manufacturing a lithium ion secondary battery includes a step of preparing a laminate comprising a solid electrolyte and a solid electrode or an electrode green sheet which is laminated on at least one surface of the solid electrolyte, and a step of providing a collector by laminating a collector material in the form of particles on the electrode or the electrode green sheet and sintering the collector material.

The invention includes an improved quartz glass body, especially an improved quartz glass crucible for melting non-metals, non-ferrous metals, or silicon, and a method and casting mold for making it The quartz glass body is made by a method in which a quartz glass-water mixture is supplied to a casting mold comprising an outer part and an inner part, dried in the mold, and put under an overpressure during the drying. Later a resulting green glass body is removed from the mold. At least a portion of the shaping surfaces of the inner part of the mold are surfaces of a water-impermeable substance. The method provides a cast body with a reduced tendency to crack and with a smaller open porosity.

A method of manufacturing a silica powder using a sol-gel technique, wherein a suspension consisting of synthetic silica soot, having a specific surface area of less than 80 m2/g, is made in water to form a concentration of 50% to 75% by weight of silica; the suspension is gelled; the resulting gel is dried without forming a crust and with microwaves and broken up into silica grains having an apparent density of 0.5 g/cm3 to 0.6 g/cm3; and screening of the dry gel is performed to provide grains having a desired size.

The invention is directed to a low expansion glass with reduced striae, the glass have a point-to-point variation in titania content is 0.1 wt % or less through its thickness and a CTE of 0±3 ppb/° C. in the temperature range 5-35° C. The invention is further directed to a method for producing the low expansion glass by using a method in which the time for repetition of the oscillation patterns used in the process are 10 minutes or less. In addition, the low expansion glass of the invention can have striae further reduced by heat-treating the glass at temperatures above 1600° C. for a time in the range of 48-160 hours.

The invention relates to hollow glass microballoons and a production method thereof. The hollow glass microballoons are characterized by comprising the following raw materials in portion by weight: 75to 80 portions of silicon dioxide, 7 to 15 portions of boron oxide, 1 to 4 portions of aluminium oxide, 0.5 to 1.5 portions of calcium oxide, 0.8 to 1.2 portions of magnesium oxide, 5 to 6 portions of sodium oxide, 0.0 to 0.3 portion of sulfur trioxide and 0 to 0.05 portion of ferric oxide. The production method of the hollow glass microballoons comprises the following steps: compounding, melting, water quenching, drying, crushing, grading, hollow balling, collection and air separation, and is characterized in that the hollow balling comprises the following steps: ejecting a glass raw material, gas and combustion-supporting gas upwards from the bottom of a balling furnace for combustion, and cooling the glass microballoons upwards by a cooling device after melting under the action of a draft fan. The hollow glass microballoons have the advantages of good surface tension, high compression strength and chemical stability. The production method can better ensure material balling, and hassimple process, less equipment and good effect as much as possible.

First of all, there is provided a production process of a synthetic quartz glass which has less impurity, has a high-temperature viscosity characteristic equal to or more than that of a natural quartz glass, and hardly deforms even in a high-temperature environment, and especially a production process of a highly heat resistant synthetic quartz glass which is free from the generation of bubbles and is dense. Secondly, there is provided a highly heat resistant synthetic quartz glass body which is easily obtained by the production process of the present invention, and especially a transparent or black quartz glass body which is free from the generation of bubbles, is dense, has high infrared absorption rate and emission rate, and has an extremely high effect for preventing diffusion of alkali metal. The process is a process of producing a highly heat resistant quartz glass body having an absorption coefficient at 245 nm of 0.05 cm⁻¹ or more, and the silica porous body was subjected to a reduction treatment, followed by baking, thereby forming a dense glass body.

A vitreous silica member of the present invention is characterized by being formed of vitreous silica exhibiting the easily crystallizable property in the absence of a crystallization accelerator. The vitreous silica having the easily crystallizable property is obtained preferably by heating and melting crystalline quartz at a temperature in the range of 1,710° C. or more to 1,780° C. or less for vitrification, and controlling the fictive temperature of the glass to be in the range of 1,100° C. or more to 1,400° C. or less. The invention also includes a vitreous silica crucible and a method of pulling single-crystal silicon using this vitreous silica crucible.

A multimode optical fiber having a first laser bandwidth greater than 220 MHz.km in the 850 nm window, a second laser bandwidth greater than 500 MHz.km in the 1300 nm window, a first OFL bandwidth of at least 160 MHz.km in the 850 nm window, and a second OFL bandwidth of at least 500 MHz.km in the 1300 nm window is disclosed. The multimode fiber is capable of operating in telecommunication systems employing both LED power sources and high power laser sources. Methods of making and testing the multimode optical fiber are also disclosed.

A strong, high density foam glass tile having a small pore size which can be used as a facade on both exterior and interior building walls. The foam glass tile of the present invention is strong enough that it can also be used as a structural member for a building. The foam glass tiles are very strong, and have a compression strength of 6000 psi (lb./sq. in.) or greater, and more particularly of 8000 lb./sq. in. or greater, and even more particularly of 10,000 lb./sq. in. or greater, and even more particularly of 12,000 lb./sq. in. or greater, and even more particularly of 14,000 lb./sq. in. or greater. These foam glass tiles will absorb more energy from an explosion, withstand higher heat and wind loading and other mechanical forces. The tiles of the present invention may have an average pore size of 1.0 mm or less, and preferably 0.7 mm or less, and more preferably 0.6 mm or less, and even more preferably 0.5 mm or less, and even more preferably 0.4 mm or less, and even more preferably 0.3 mm or less. The density of the foam glass tile of the present invention is increased from the commercially recommended density of 9.5 lb./cu. ft. to have a higher density of between 30-100 lb./cu. ft., and more particularly greater than 40 lb./cu. ft., and even more particularly greater than 50 lb./cu. ft. and even more particularly greater than 60 lb.cu. ft. The weight of the foam glass tile of the present invention is over 10 lbs., and more particularly over 20 lbs., and even more particularly over 30 lbs., and more particularly 35 lbs. or greater, and even more particularly 40 lbs. or greater, and even more particularly 50 lbs. or greater, and even more particularly 65 lbs. or greater, and even more particularly 100 lbs. or greater. The tile of the present invention may also have a closed pore structure.

Disclosed are process and apparatus for making high purity fused silica glass materials. The process involves depositing soot particles onto an essentially planar deposition supporting surface and modulation of motion of the soot-generating device relative to the deposition supporting surface to result in a low local soot density variation. The apparatus is designed to implement the planar deposition process. The invention makes it possible to produce fused silica glass without the use of potentially contaminating refractory bricks.

A method and an apparatus for making an optical fiber preform comprising the steps of (i) depositing a plurality of rods are deposited into an inner cavity of an apparatus; (ii) depositing particulate glass material in the inner cavity between the rods and the inner wall; and (iii) applying pressure against the particulate glass material to pressurize the particulate glass material against the plurality of rods.

A method and apparatus for making an optical fiber preform. The apparatus has an outer wall and an inner wall. The outer wall surrounds the inner wall and the inner wall surrounds an inner cavity of the apparatus. A consolidated glass rod is deposited in the inner cavity after which particulate glass material, such as glass soot, is deposited in the inner cavity around the glass rod. A radially inward pressure is applied against the particulate glass material to pressurize the particulate glass material against the glass rod.

Proppant used to keep open a fissure in a reservoir created by hydraulic or other action is disclosed. The proppant demonstrates a reduced specific gravity controlled by the geometry of the structure of the proppant. Proppant must be capable of withstanding the hydrostatic environment of the hydraulic pumping system, pass through a perforation in the casing of the well, travel into the fissure, and, upon reduction of hydrostatic pressure, withstand the closure pressure of the formation. A proppant having neutral buoyancy or substantial neutral buoyancy yet capable of withstanding the hydraulic and closure pressures is described that has a tubular structure hollow in the center with a wall of material sufficiently strong to withstand the majority of closure pressures.