2129 results about "Boride" patented technology

A method of forming a boride layer for integrated circuit fabrication is disclosed. In one embodiment, the boride layer is formed by chemisorbing monolayers of a boron-containing compound and one refractory metal compound onto a substrate. In an alternate embodiment, the boride layer has a composite structure. The composite boride layer structure comprises two or more refractory metals. The composite boride layer is formed by sequentially chemisorbing monolayers of a boron compound and two or more refractory metal compounds on a substrate.

The present invention relates to compositions and methods for forming a bit body for an earth-boring bit. The bit body may comprise hard particles, wherein the hard particles comprise at least one carbide, nitride, boride, and oxide and solid solutions thereof, and a binder binding together the hard particles. The binder may comprise at least one metal selected from cobalt, nickel, and iron, and at least one melting point reducing constituent selected from a transition metal carbide in the range of 30 to 60 weight percent, boron up to 10 weight percent, silicon up to 20 weight percent, chromium up to 20 weight percent, and manganese up to 25 weight percent, wherein the weight percentages are based on the total weight of the binder. In addition, the hard particles may comprise at least one of (i) cast carbide (WC+W2C) particles, (ii) transition metal carbide particles selected from the carbides of titanium, chromium, vanadium, zirconium, hafnium, tantalum, molybdenum, niobium, and tungsten, and (iii) sintered cemented carbide particles.

This invention relates to cutting inserts for earth boring bits comprising a cutting zone, wherein the cutting zone comprises first cemented hard particles and a body zone, wherein the body zone comprises second cemented hard particles. The first cemented hard particles may differ in at least one property from the second cemented hard particles. As used herein, the cemented hard particles means a material comprising hard particles in a binder. The hard particles may be at least one of a carbide, a nitride, a boride, a silicide, an oxide, and solid solutions thereof and the binder may be at least one metal selected from cobalt, nickel, iron and alloys of cobalt, nickel or iron.

The present invention relates to compositions and methods for forming a bit body for an earth-boring bit. The bit body may comprise hard particles, wherein the hard particles comprise at least one carbide, nitride, boride, and oxide and solid solutions thereof, and a binder binding together the hard particles. The binder may comprise at least one metal selected from cobalt, nickel, and iron, and, optionally, at least one melting point reducing constituent selected from a transition metal carbide in the range of 30 to 60 weight percent, boron up to 10 weight percent, silicon up to 20 weight percent, chromium up to 20 weight percent, and manganese up to 25 weight percent, wherein the weight percentages are based on the total weight of the binder. In addition, the hard particles may comprise at least one of (i) cast carbide (WC+W2C) particles, (ii) transition metal carbide particles selected from the carbides of titanium, chromium, vanadium, zirconium, hafnium, tantalum, molybdenum, niobium, and tungsten, and (iii) sintered cemented carbide particles.

Polycrystalline compacts include smaller and larger hard grains that are interbonded to form a polycrystalline hard material. The larger grains may be at least about 150 times larger than the smaller grains. An interstitial material comprising one or more of a boride, a carbide, a nitride, a metal carbonate, a metal bicarbonate, and a non-catalytic metal may be disposed between the grains. The compacts may be used as cutting elements for earth-boring tools such as drill bits, and may be disposed on a substrate. Methods of making polycrystalline compacts include coating smaller hard particles with a coating material, mixing the smaller particles with larger hard particles, and sintering the mixture to form a polycrystalline hard material including interbonded smaller and larger grains. The sizes of the smaller and larger particles may be selected to cause the larger grains to be at least about 150 times larger than the smaller grains.

Provided are coated sleeved oil and gas well production devices and methods of making and using such coated sleeved devices. In one form, the coated sleeved oil and gas well production device includes an oil and gas well production device including one or more bodies and one or more sleeves proximal to the outer or inner surface of the one or more bodies, and a coating on at least a portion of the inner sleeve surface, outer sleeve surface, or a combination thereof, wherein the coating is chosen from an amorphous alloy, a heat-treated electroless or electro plated based nickel-phosphorous composite with a phosphorous content greater than 12 wt %, graphite, MoS₂, WS₂, a fullerene based composite, a boride based cermet, a quasicrystalline material, a diamond based material, diamond-like-carbon (DLC), boron nitride, and combinations thereof. The coated sleeved oil and gas well production devices may provide for reduced friction, wear, erosion, corrosion, and deposits for well construction, completion and production of oil and gas.

A metallic resistive heater and a method of production are described. The resistive heater has a metallic component that is electrically conductive (i.e. has low resistivity) and an oxide, nitride, carbide, and or boride derivative of the metallic component that is electrically insulating (i.e., has high resistivity). The resistivity is controlled by controlling the amount of oxide, nitride, carbide, and boride formation during the deposition of the metallic component and the derivative.

Embodiments of the present invention include composite articles comprising at least a first region and a second region and methods of making such articles. The first region may comprise a first composite material, wherein the first region comprises less than 5 wt. % cubic carbides by weight, and the second region may comprise a second composite material, wherein the second composite material differs from the first composite material in at least one characteristic. The composite article may additionally comprise at least one coolant channel. In certain embodiments, the first and second composite material may individually comprise hard particles in a binder, wherein the hard particles independently comprise at least one of a carbide, a nitride, a boride, a silicide, an oxide, and solid solutions thereof and the binder comprises at least one metal selected from cobalt, nickel, iron and alloys thereof. In specific embodiments, the first composite material and the second composite material may individually comprise metal carbides in a binder, such as a cemented carbide.

The present invention relates to dry refractory compositions having excellent thermal insulation values. The dry refractory composition also has excellent resistance to molten metal and slag. The composition comprises a lightweight filler material selected from the group consisting of perlite, vermiculite, expanded shale, expanded fire clay, expanded silica-alumina hollow spheres, vesicular alumina, sintered porous alumina, alumina spinel Stone insulating aggregate, ettringite insulating aggregate, expanded mullite, cordierite and anorthite, and a matrix material selected from the group consisting of calcined alumina, fused alumina, sintered magnesia, fused magnesia, Silicon fume, fused silica, corundum, boron carbide, titanium diboride, zirconium boride, boron nitride, aluminum nitride, silicon nitride, sialonite, titanium dioxide, barium sulfate, zircon, sillimanite Group of minerals, pyrophyllite, fire clay, carbon and calcium fluoride. The composition may also contain dense refractory aggregates selected from the group consisting of calcined clay, calcined clinker, minerals of the sillimanite group, calcined bauxite, pyrophyllite, silica, zircon, baddeleyite, cordierite , corundum, sintered alumina, fused alumina, fused quartz, sintered mullite, fused mullite, fused zirconia, sintered zirconia mullite, fused zirconia mullite, sintered magnesia, Fused magnesia, sintered spinel and fused spinel refractory clinker. The composition also contains a heat activated binder and a dust suppressant.

A non-oxide compound magnesite-graphite brick containing carbon less than 6% belongs to a fire resisting material. The material contains magnesia of 75-94%, carbon of 1-5%, non-oxide such as nitride and boride of 0.4-20%, additive of 0-5%, and binder containg carbon. Such magnesite-graphite brick with low carbon has a low heat conductivity, a small acierating to the molten steel and less pollution to the low carbon steel compared to the common magnesite-graphite brick. The magnesite-graphite brick has a good slag resistance because the magnesia is the primary component. And it also has a good heat shock capacity because the carbon is one of the primary components. The carbon prevents said non-oxide from being oxidated. The brick maintains a good heat and shock resistance and slag resistance when reducing the proportion of the carbon because said non-oxide has a low heat expansion and a wet resistance to the slag.

This invention provides a hybrid material that exhibits strength, stiffness and ability to resist high temperatures. This hybrid material essentially consists of component A and component B. Component A is selected from the group consisting of inorganic compounds, oxides, carbides, nitrides, borides, and combinations thereof. Component B is selected from the group comprising elemental carbon, inorganic compounds, oxides, carbides, nitrides, borides, and combinations thereof. Component B comprises a plurality of units, each of the units substantially exhibiting a shape, such that this shape substantially exhibits a long dimension and a short dimension, with the short dimension being in a direction that is essentially perpendicular to the direction of the long dimension and the short dimension being in the range from 0.1 nm to 0.5 μm. Each of the units of component B is substantially in contact with and substantially bonded to at least one of the units of component A.

An integrated circuit has a multi-layer stack such as a gate stack or a digit line stack disposed on a layer comprising silicon. A conductive film is formed on the transition metal boride layer. A process for fabricating such devices can include forming the conductive film using a vapor deposition process with a reaction gas comprising fluorine. In the case of a gate stack, the transition metal boride layer can help reduce or eliminate the diffusion of fluorine atoms from the conductive film into a gate dielectric layer. Similarly, in the case of digit line stacks as well as gate stacks, the transition metal boride layer can reduce the diffusion of silicon from the polysilicon layer into the conductive film to help maintain a low resistance for the conductive film.

The invention discloses a method for protecting the negative electrode of a lithium sulfur battery. A lithium sulfur battery negative electrode protection additive layer is adhered to the surface of the anode of the lithium sulfur battery. An additive component forming the protection additive layer can be an inorganic compound or an organic compound; the inorganic compound is one or above two of metal oxides, nonmetal oxides, sulfides, phosphides, nitrides, borides and fluorides; and the organic compound is one or above two of ionic liquid molecules, amino acids, polycation electrolytes, polyanion electrolytes, cationic surfactants, polyoxyether and polythioether. The morphology of the liquid metal protection layer is dynamically changing, and does not physically shed or crack due to continuous dissolution and deposition of the lithium metal in order to effectively protect the negative electrode.

A directed vapor deposition (DVD) method and system for applying at least one bond coating on at least one substrate for thermal barrier coating systems. The method and system provides for alloy strengthening in high temperature metallic alloys that can be melt or solid state processed to materials that one applies by vapor deposition. The creep strengthened coating contains nanoscopic particles of oxides, nitrides, borides, carbides, and other materials which are formed by reactive codeposition. An approach for reactive codeposition is plasma assisted directed vapor deposition. Accordingly, the resultant structure may be utilized for, but not limited thereto, high temperature coatings, e.g. for protecting rocket or power turbines, or diesel engine components. The resultant structure is has a greatly extended lifetime attributed in part to the elimination of coating spallation by the “rumpling” mechanism.

The invention discloses a multiple boride metal ceramic based on a high-entropy alloy adhesion agent and a preparation method thereof. According to the boride metal ceramic, high-entropy alloy serves as an adhesion phase, multiple boride serves as a hard phase, the high-entropy alloy adhesion phase is composed of at least four of iron, cobalt, nickel, chromium, aluminum, vanadium, titanium, copper, zirconium, molybdenum and manganese, and the content mole ratio of each element is between 5% and 35%. The multiple boride hard phase comprises W2M1B2 or/and Mo2M2B2, wherein M1 and M2 are at least one of Fe, Ni, Co and Cr. The preparation method of the multiple boride metal ceramic based on the high-entropy alloy adhesion agent comprises the steps of ball-milling mixing, forming and low-pressure sintering.

A press plate for producing decorative laminate from resin impregnated paper, with alumina particles on its pressing surface, is coated with diborides selected from the group consisting of hafnium diboride, molybdenum diboride, tantalum diboride, titanium diboride, tungsten diboride, vanadium diboride, or zirconium diboride or mixtures thereof for making the press plate resistant to scratching. The preferred diborides are titanium and zirconium. The most preferred diboride is titanium. The color, gloss and surface appearance of laminate pressed with a titanium diboride coated press plate is substantially the same as laminate pressed with the press plate before coating.

An aspect of this invention is an electrode rod for spark alloying, comprising a compact of a first powder of a first component which comprises a metal selected from a group of Fe, Co, Ni, metals of 4a, 5a and 6a of the periodic table and Si, and a second powder of a second component which is capable of self-propagating high temperature synthesis to form with said first component carbide, nitride, boride, silicide or intermetallic compound, said first and second powders being mixed intimately with each other and formed into an axial rod. Another aspect is a method for the production of the electrospark alloying rod, comprising: mixing intimately a first powder of first component and a second powder of second component, said first component comprising at least one selected from Fe, Co, Ni, metals of groups 4a, 5a and 6a, Sn, Zn, Pb, Al and Cu, said second component comprising materials capable of SHS process to form a refractory (or intermetallic) compound, compressing said mixture, followed or not by further firing, and thereby forming an axial body with a bulk density 0.50 to 0.86 time the theoretical values for the corresponding substances. Still another aspect is a method for the deposition of a coating on a work by causing and holding an electric spark between said electrode rod and work, whereby transferring the materials of said first and second components to the surface of said work, and depositing thereon as a layer or more layers of such compound.