A system, process and related sintered article are provided. The process includes supporting a piece of inorganic material with a pressurized gas and sintering the piece of inorganic material while supported by the pressurized gas by heating the piece of inorganic material to a temperature at or above a sintering temperature of the inorganic material such that the inorganic material is at least partially sintered forming the sintered article. The inorganic material is not in contact with a solid support during sintering. The sintered article, such as a ceramic article, is thin, has high surface quality, and/or has large surface areas.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a lead-free glass composition in which crystallization is suppressed and which has a low softening point. This lead-free glass composition is characterized by containing silver oxide, tellurium oxide and vanadium oxide, and further containing at least one compound selected from among yttrium oxide, lanthanum oxide, cerium oxide, erbium oxide, ytterbium oxide, aluminum oxide, gallium oxide, indium oxide, iron oxide, tungsten oxide and molybdenum oxide as an additional component, and in that the content values (mol %) of silver oxide, tellurium oxide and vanadium oxide satisfy the relationships Ag.sub.2O>TeO.sub.2?V.sub.2O.sub.5 and Ag.sub.5O?2V.sub.2O.sub.5 when calculated in terms of the oxides, and in that the content of TeO.sub.2 is 25-37 mol. %.

A laser weldable device housing substrate, device housing and related method are provided. The substrate includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a thin inorganic particle layer supported by the first surface. The inorganic particle layer includes a plurality of particles arranged in a layer on the first surface. The particles have an average diameter of less than or equal to 1.0 ?m, and the inorganic particle layer has an average thickness of less than or equal to 5 ?m.

The present invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of printable, high-viscosity oxide media, and to the use thereof in the production of solar cells.

A conductive paste for a solar cell, a solar cell and a manufacturing method thereof, and a solar cell module are provided. The conductive paste for a solar cell includes a silver powder, a glass, an organic vehicle, and a tellurium alloy compound, wherein the tellurium alloy compound has a melting point at least 300 C. higher than the softening point of the glass.

The present invention relates to a composition for forming solar cell electrodes which includes a conductive powder, a glass frit and an organic vehicle, and has a tackiness of about 60% to about 90% represented by Expression 1.

Disclosed as a lead-free, inorganic low melting-point composition which, when applied to an object to be sealed having surfaces made of inorganic oxide and/or metal, and then subjected to heat treatment in the air in a temperature range not exceeding 400 C., sufficiently expands over the surfaces exhibiting good wettability to it, and thus is able to adhere (stick fast) to the surfaces and seal them once cooling down and making solid, and also to join two of their surfaces which are laid on each other.

A seal composition includes a first alkaline earth metal oxide, a second alkaline earth metal oxide which is different from the first alkaline earth metal oxide, aluminum oxide, and silica in an amount such that molar percent of silica in the composition is at least five molar percent greater than two times a combined molar percent of the first alkaline earth metal oxide and the second alkaline earth metal oxide. The composition is substantially free of phosphorus oxide. The seal composition forms a glass ceramic seal which includes silica containing glass cores located in a crystalline matrix comprising barium aluminosilicate, and calcium aluminosilicate crystals located in the glass cores.

The present invention pertains to a laminated glass for a vehicle, the laminated glass including a first glass sheet, a second glass sheet and an intermediate film sandwiched between the first glass sheet and the second glass sheet, in which: the total thickness of the first glass sheet, the second glass sheet and the intermediate film is 4.0 mm or more; the first glass sheet is formed of a borosilicate glass containing, in terms of oxide by molar percentage, 1.0% or more of B.sub.2O.sub.3; and when a radio wave (TM wave) with a frequency of 79[GHz] is made incident at an incident angle of 60? to the first glass sheet, the transmission property S21 is ?4.0 [dB] or more.

A low dielectric sealing glass powder for a miniature radio-frequency glass insulator is made of the following raw materials expressed in molar percentages: SiO.sub.2: 70.5-74.0%, B.sub.2O.sub.3: 20.5-23.5%, Ga.sub.2O.sub.3: 0.5-2.0%, P.sub.2O.sub.5: 0.25-2.0%, Li.sub.2O: 0.4-6.0%, K.sub.2O: 0.1-1.5%, LaB.sub.6: 0.05-1.0%, and NaCl: 0.03-0.3%. The raw material components are simple, and the preparation method is easy to implement. The dielectric constant and dielectric loss of the prepared glass powder are low, and the melting and molding temperature is low, which are convenient for large-scale industrial production. The melting and molding temperature of the low dielectric sealing glass powder ranges from 1320? C. to 1360? C., and the obtained glass has a dielectric constant ranging from 3.8 to 4.1 and a dielectric loss ranging from 4?10.sup.?4 to 10?10.sup.?4 at a frequency of 1 MHz, and a sealing temperature ranging from 900? C. to 950? C.