2672 results about "Silicon alloy" patented technology

The present invention describes an MOS device having deposited silicon regions and its a method of fabrication. In one embodiment of the present invention a substrate having a thin oxide layer formed on a silicon surface is heated and exposed to an ambient comprising germane (GeH4) to remove the thin oxide from the silicon surface. A silicon or silicon alloy film can then be deposited onto the silicon surface of the substrate.

An MOS device comprising a gate dielectric formed on a first conductivity type region. A gate electrode formed on the gate dielectric. A pair of sidewall spacers are formed along laterally opposite sidewalls of the gate electrode. A pair of deposited silicon or silicon alloy source/drain regions are formed in the first conductivity region and on opposite sides of a gate electrode wherein the silicon or silicon alloy source/drain regions extend beneath the gate electrode and to define a channel region beneath the gate electrode in the first conductivity type region wherein the channel region directly beneath the gate electrode is larger than the channel region deeper into said first conductivity type region.

Silicon composite particles are prepared by sintering primary fine particles of silicon, silicon alloy or silicon oxide together with an organosilicon compound. Sintering of the organosilicon compound results in a silicon-base inorganic compound which serves as a binder. Each particle has the structure that silicon or silicon alloy fine particles are dispersed in the silicon-base inorganic compound binder, and voids are present within the particle.

A lithium secondary battery includes: a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material layer disposed on a positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode binder and a positive electrode active material containing a layered lithium-transition metal composite oxide; a negative electrode having a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer disposed on the negative electrode current collector, the negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode binder and a negative electrode active material containing particles of silicon and/or a silicon alloy; and a non-aqueous electrolyte. Al₂O₃ particles are firmly adhered to a surface of the lithium-transition metal composite oxide so that a BET specific surface area of the positive electrode active material after the adherence of the Al₂O₃ particles is from 1.5 times to 8 times greater than that before the adherence of the Al₂O₃ particles

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a diamond composite from diamond particles, comprising the steps of forming a work piece, heating the work piece and controlling the heating temperature and heating time so that a certain desired amount of graphite is created by graphitization of diamond particles, thereby creating an intermediate body, and infiltrating silicon or silicon alloy into the intermediate body. The invention also relates to a diamond composite produced by this method.

A lithium secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a positive electrode (1), a negative electrode (2) having a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer formed on a surface of the negative electrode current collector and composed of a binder and negative electrode active material particles containing silicon and/or a silicon alloy, and a separator (3) interposed between the electrodes. The electrode assembly is impregnated with a non-aqueous electrolyte. The binder contains a polyimide resin represented by the following chemical formula (1):

where R contains at least a benzene ring, and n is within the range of from 10 to 100,000, and the negative electrode active material particles have an average particle size of 5 μm or greater.

A cylindrical lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode (1) having a positive electrode mixture layer disposed on a surface of a positive electrode current collector made of a conductive metal foil and containing a positive electrode active material, and a negative electrode (2) having a negative electrode mixture layer disposed on a surface of a negative electrode current collector made of a conductive metal foil and having a negative electrode active material containing silicon particles and/or silicon alloy particles. The amount of the positive electrode active material is 50 mg or less per 1 cm² of the positive electrode, the average particle size of the silicon particles and/or silicon alloy particles is from 5 μm to 15 μm, and the theoretical electrical capacity ratio of the negative electrode to the positive electrode is 1.2 or greater.

A rechargeable lithium battery including a negative electrode made by sintering, on a surface of a conductive metal foil as a current collector, a layer of a mixture of active material particles containing silicon and/or a silicon alloy and a binder, a positive electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte, characterized in that the nonaqueous electrolyte contains carbon dioxide dissolved therein.

A method of forming a semiconductor substrate (and resultant structure), includes providing a semiconductor substrate to be silicided including a source and drain formed therein on respective sides of a gate, depositing a metal film over the gate, source and drain regions, reacting the metal film with Si at a first predetermined temperature, to form a metal-silicon alloy, etching the unreacted metal, depositing a silicon film over the source drain and gate regions, annealing the substrate at a second predetermined temperature, to form a metal-Si2 alloy, and selectively etching the unreacted Si.

[Problem] An object of the invention is to provide a lithium secondary battery that shows good cycle performance and at the same time prevents a battery thickness increase due to charge-discharge cycles, and a method of manufacturing such a battery.

[Means for Solving the Problem] A lithium secondary battery includes a negative electrode (2) having a negative electrode current collector (11) and a negative electrode active material layer (12) disposed on the negative electrode current collector (11), a positive electrode (1) having a positive electrode active material, a separator (3), and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode active material layer includes negative electrode active material particles and a negative electrode binder, and the negative electrode active material particles include silicon particles and/or silicon alloy particles. The silicon particles and the silicon alloy particles have a crystallite size of 100 nm or less.

A MOS device having reduced recesses under a gate spacer and a method for forming the same are provided. The MOS device includes a gate structure overlying the substrate, a sidewall spacer on a sidewall of the gate structure, a recessed region having a recess depth of substantially less than about 30 Å underlying the sidewall spacer, and a silicon alloy region having at least a portion in the substrate and adjacent the recessed region. The silicon alloy region has a thickness of substantially greater than about 30 nm. A shallow recess region is achieved by protecting the substrate when a hard mask on the gate structure is removed. The MOS device is preferably a pMOS device.

Methods for the production of shaped nanoscale-to-microscale structures, wherein a nanoscale-to-microscale template is provided having an original chemical composition and an original shape, and the nanoscale-to-microscale template subjected to a chemical reaction, so as to partially or completely convert the nanoscale-to-microscale template into the shaped nanoscale-to-microscale structure having a chemical composition different than the original chemical composition and having substantially the same shape as the original shape, being a scaled version of the original shape. The shaped nanoscale-to-microscale structure formed comprises an element (such as silicon), a metallic alloy (such as a silicon alloy), or a non-oxide compound (such as silicon carbide or silicon nitride).

A device and method for hermetically sealing a medical device is provided. In one aspect, a silicon device is coupled to a sensor, such as a pressure transducer, which benefits from having direct contact with its environment, which in many cases, is the human body. Thus, a method to hermetically seal the non-sensing portion of a silicon device while allowing the sensing portion (e.g. the pressure transducer) to have direct contact with the body is provided. In one aspect, a silicon chip, a gold preform and a metallic housing are each primed for sealing and are assembled. The assembly is then heated to react the gold preform to the silicon chip and to form a molten gold-silicon alloy in-situ to bind the metallic housing to the non-sensing portion of the silicon chip. In this way, the non-sensing portion of the silicon chip is hermetically sealed and protected from exposure, while still permitting exposure of the sensing portion to the environment.

This invention describes a method of building complementary logic circuits using junction field effect transistors in silicon. This invention is ideally suited for deep submicron dimensions, preferably below 65 nm. The basis of this invention is a complementary Junction Field Effect Transistor which is operated in the enhancement mode. The speed-power performance of the JFETs becomes comparable with the CMOS devices at sub-70 nanometer dimensions. However, the maximum power supply voltage for the JFETs is still limited to below the built-in potential (a diode drop). To satisfy certain applications which require interface to an external circuit driven to higher voltage levels, this invention includes the structures and methods to build CMOS devices on the same substrate as the JFET devices.

Methods of making high-strength, lightweight alloy components capable of high temperature performance comprising aluminum, silicon, and iron and/or nickel are provided. A high-energy stream, such as a laser or electron beam, may be selectively directed towards a precursor material to melt a portion of the precursor material in a localized region. The molten precursor material is cooled at a rate of greater than or equal to about 1.0×10⁵ K/second to form a solid high-strength, lightweight alloy component comprising a stable ternary cubic phase having high heat resistance and high strength. The stable ternary phase may be Al_xFe_ySi_z, where x ranges from about 4 to about 5 or about 7.2 to about 7.6, y is about 1.5 to about 2.2, and z is about 1. The stable ternary phase may also be Al₆Ni₃Si. Materials and components, such as automotive components, made from such methods are also provided.

A strained channel NMOS and PMOS device pair including fully silicided gate electrodes and method for forming the same, the method including providing a semiconductor substrate including NMOS and PMOS device regions including respective gate structures including polysilicon gate electrodes; forming recessed regions on either side of a channel region including at least one of the NMOS and PMOS device regions; backfilling portions of the recessed regions with a semiconducting silicon alloy to exert a strain on the channel region; forming offset spacers on either side of the gate structures; thinning the polysilicon gate electrodes to a silicidation thickness to allow full metal silicidation through the silicidation thickness; ion implanting the polysilicon gate electrodes to adjust a work function; and, forming a metal silicide through the silicidation thickness to form metal silicide gate electrodes.

A drilling fluid, spacer fluid and cementing compositions for use in subterranean wells are disclosed along with methods for making using same, where the compositions include a weighting system having an effective amount of a metal silicon alloy, mixtures of metal silicon alloys, or mixtures of metal silicon alloys and conventional weighting agents, to produce compositions having a desired high density, while retaining other fluid properties such as pumpability, gas tight sealing, low tendency to segregate, and reduced high temperature cement strength retrogression.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a foamed aluminum sandwich plate, which belongs to the field of porous foam metal and laminar composite materials. The method comprises the following steps of: uniformly mixing aluminum-silicon alloy powder prepared by an atomization method, and foaming agent titanium hydride powder and metal magnesium powder in a certain ratio; filling the powder into a thin-wall steel (or aluminum alloy) tube with one sealed end; sealing the other end of the tube after powder filling and preparing a rolled blank; rolling and compounding at a slow speed on a cold rolling mill; trimming an obtained composite plate and cutting a foamed preformed blank according to the size of a foaming mold; foaming the preformed blank in a steel mold in a limited way; adjusting foaming temperature and foaming time as required; and foaming at a high temperature for a short period of time to obtain a high-quality foamed aluminum sandwich plate with a uniform foam structure in a core layer, good interface bonding, high thickness accuracy and excellent plate profile. The method has the outstanding characteristics of low equipment requirement, high plate profile accuracy of a product, high three-point bending strength and the like and is advantaged technology suitable for mass industrial production of foamed aluminum sandwich structural materials.

The present invention provides a dresser for a chemical and mechanical polishing cloth wherein a bonding material for retaining diamond grit is not dissolved and contamination of chemical slurry caused by dissolving of metal or peeling-off of diamond grit is prevented from occurring. A sintered product constituting the dressing face 2a is obtained by mixing a bonding material 4 consisting of silicon and/or silicon alloy with diamond grit 3, and forming and sintering the mixture. A carbide film 5 generated by sintering silicon in the bonding material into diamond is formed on the surface of the diamond grit 3. Thereby, the diamond grit is firmly bonded with the bonding material, and the bonding material is not dissolved. As a result, the contamination of the chemical slurry or the peeling-off of the diamond grit is prevented.

A negative electrode for a lithium secondary cell having a collector composed of an electroconductive metal foil and, provided on the surface thereof, an active material layer containing active material particles containing silicon and/or a silicon alloy and a binder, characterized in that the binder has mechanical characteristics of a tensile strength of 50 N/mm² or more, an elongation at break of 10% or more, a strain energy density of 2.5×10⁻³ J/mm³ or more and a coefficient of elasticity of 10000 N/mm² or less, and preferably characterized in that the collector has mechanical characteristics of a tensile strength of 80 N/mm² or more, a proportional limit 30 N/mm² or more, an elongation at break of 1.0% or more and an elastic elongation limit of 0.03% or more.

The invention discloses an aluminum-silicon based aluminum section. The aluminum section is composed of, by weight, 5.0-14.0% of silicon, 0.2-0.7% of magnesium, less than 0.03% of boron, less than 0.06% of strontium, 0.1-6.55% of strengthening elements, less than 0.25% impurity elements, and the balance aluminum. The aluminum-silicon based aluminium section has the advantages of high strength, high hardness, good wear resistance, etc. the invention also discloses a preparation technology for the aluminum-silicon based aluminum section, which comprises a first step of adding aluminum-silicon alloy to a graphite crucible and heating the alloy to form melt; a second step of adding the magnesium, the silicon and the strengthening elements; a third step of adding hexachloroethane for refinement; a forth step of adding the strontium for deterioration, casting to a cast iron die to form an ingot casting; and a fifth step of hot extruding, hot rolling for deformation, solid solution treating and aging treating in sequence after annealing the ingot casting, thereby obtaining the aluminum-silicon based aluminum section. The preparation technology is simple.

The invention discloses a porous silicon negative material of a lithium ion battery, and a preparation method and application of the material. The method comprises the following steps of: reacting silicon alloy powder, which is taken as a raw material, with inorganic acid to generate porous silicon particles; and washing the porous silicon particles by an HF (Hydrogen Fluoride) acid solution to eliminate surface silicon oxide, and washing and drying the washed porous silicon particles so as to obtain the porous silicon material. The porous silicon material prepared by the method has a sponge-shaped structure which is formed by linking nano silicon particles; the particle sizes of the particles of the porous silicon negative material range from 0.01 micron to 50 microns; the specific surface area of the material is 30-600cm<2>/g; the porous silicon negative material can be taken as a negative material of a lithium ion battery; and in a lithium ion battery electrolyte, the porous silicon powder shows high specific discharge capacity and charge-discharge circulation stability. The porous silicon negative material has the advantages of low cost, simplicity and convenience in method and high electrochemical property, and can be applied to production of silicon negative materials of high-performance lithium ion batteries.