Multicolored glass-based articles and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a glass-based part and exposing a first region to radiation and a second region to radiation such that the first and second regions have different sized metallic nanoparticles, resulting in a multicolored glass article.

Disclosed is a microwave plasma processing apparatus including: a chamber that accommodates a workpiece; a microwave generating source that generates microwaves; a waveguide unit that guides the microwaves toward the chamber; a planar antenna made of a conductor having a plurality of slots that radiate the microwaves toward the chamber; a microwave-transmitting plate made of a dielectric material that constitutes a top wall of the chamber and transmits the microwaves radiated from the plurality of slots; a gas supply mechanism that supplies a gas into the chamber; and an exhaust mechanism that exhausts an atmosphere in the chamber. The planar antenna includes a plurality of slot groups each forming one unit including one or more of the slots, and the slots are formed so as to form an odd number of the slot groups equal to or more than three in a circumferential direction.

Methods for manufacturing a carbon-containing glass material are disclosed. The method includes flowing a hydrocarbon gas and silane into a reactor, and providing an additive to the reactor. The method includes generating a non-thermal equilibrium plasma based on excitement of the hydrocarbon gas and the silane by a microwave energy, where the non-thermal equilibrium plasma includes a plurality of methyl radicals. The method includes ion-bombarding the glass material with at least the methyl radicals to create an interphase region. The method includes forming a plurality of FLG nanoplatelets within the interphase region based on recombination or self-nucleation of the methyl radicals. The FLG nanoplatelets may be dispersed throughout the interphase region in a non-periodic orientation that at least partially inhibits formation of cracks in the glass material. The method includes doping surfaces of the FLG nanoplatelets with the additive, and intercalating the additive between adjacent graphene layers within the FLG nanoplatelets formed in the glass material.

A laser beam machining method and a laser beam machining device capable of cutting a work without producing a fusing and a cracking out of a predetermined cutting line on the surface of the work, wherein a pulse laser beam is radiated on the predetermined cut line on the surface of the work under the conditions causing a multiple photon absorption and with a condensed point aligned to the inside of the work, and a modified area is formed inside the work along the predetermined determined cut line by moving the condensed point along the predetermined cut line, whereby the work can be cut with a rather small force by cracking the work along the predetermined cut line starting from the modified area and, because the pulse laser beam radiated is not almost absorbed onto the surface of the work, the surface is not fused even if the modified area is formed.

A method of UV photobleaching a glass sample having UV-induced colorization is disclosed. The processed includes first irradiating the glass sample with colorizing UV radiation having a colorizing wavelength of λ.sub.C<300 nm to form the colorized glass, which has a pink hue. The method then includes irradiating the colorized glass with bleaching UV radiation having a bleaching wavelength of λ.sub.B, wherein 248 nm≦λ.sub.B≦365 nm, to substantially remove the pink hue.

A method of manufacturing a glass substrate having a penetrating structure, the method includes: (1) preparing a glass substrate that has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, and includes 3 mol % to 30 mol % of B.sub.2O.sub.3 in terms of oxide; (2) having the glass substrate irradiated with a laser from a first surface side, to form an initial penetrating structure; (3) wet etching the glass substrate having the initial penetrating structure formed; (4) polishing the wet-etched glass substrate from the first surface side, by using an abrasive including acid-soluble abrasive grains; and (5) cleaning the glass substrate with an acid solution.

In a method for removing an organic adhesive from a glass carrier in a semiconductor manufacturing process, the glass carrier is placed into a process chamber. The glass carrier is rotated and heated sulfuric acid is applied or sprayed onto the glass carrier. Ozone is introduced into the process chamber. The ozone diffuses through the sulfuric acid to the organic adhesive on the surface of the glass carrier. The sulfuric acid and the ozone chemically react with the organic adhesive and remove it from the glass carrier.

A method for producing a chemically strengthened glass, including a step of bringing a glass containing sodium into contact with an inorganic salt containing potassium nitrate, thereby performing ion exchange of a Na ion in the glass with a K ion in the inorganic salt, in which the inorganic salt contains at least one salt selected from the group consisting of K.sub.2CO.sub.3, Na.sub.2CO.sub.3, KHCO.sub.3, NaHCO.sub.3, K.sub.3PO.sub.4, Na.sub.3PO.sub.4, K.sub.2SO.sub.4, Na.sub.2SO.sub.4, KOH and NaOH, and the method includes: a step of washing the glass after the ion exchange; a step of subjecting the glass to an acid treatment after the washing; and a step of subjecting the glass to an alkali treatment after the acid treatment.

Exemplary arrangements relate to a method for producing an implant, in particular an implant configured to be inserted into a Schlemm's canal of an eye, which includes the steps of providing an implant blank, which implant blank is comprised of material that is permeable to laser radiation. The method further includes subjecting at least one region of the implant blank to laser radiation. Subsequent to subjecting the least one region to radiation, the method further includes removing material from the at least one region via fluid etching.

The invention concerns a process for increasing the scratch resistance of a glass substrate by implantation of simple charge and multicharge ions, comprising maintaining the temperature of the area of the glass substrate being treated at a temperature that is less than or equal to the glass transition temperature of the glass substrate, selecting the ions to be implanted among the ions of Ar, He, and N, setting the acceleration voltage for the extraction of the ions at a value comprised between 5 kV and 200 kV and setting the ion dosage at a value comprised between 10.sup.14 ions/cm.sup.2 and 2.5×10.sup.17 ions/cm.sup.2.The invention further concerns glass substrates comprising an area treated by implantation of simple charge and multicharge ions according to this process and their use for reducing the probability of scratching on the glass substrate upon mechanical contact.