The invention provides a ceramic device enabling more complex, elaborate patterns for resistance heating elements or electrodes. A ceramic device includes a ceramic substrate consisting of a ceramic sintered body and including at least a base layer, an intermediate layer laminated over the base layer, and an overlayer laminated over the intermediate layer; and an electrifiable resistance heating element or electrode having a predetermined pattern extending in a planar shape and being embedded in the ceramic substrate. A horizontal surface is defined in the upper surface of the intermediate layer, along which the resistance heating element or electrode is arranged, and the overlayer is laminated onto the upper surface of the intermediate layer to cover the resistance heating element or electrode.

The present invention relates to parts of transparent corundum ceramics and the production and use of said parts.

The present invention relates to parts of transparent corundum ceramics and the production and use of said parts.

Disclosed are a multi-layer composite ceramic plate and a manufacturing method thereof. The composite ceramic plate includes at least one basic sandwich structure. The manufacturing method includes: preparing a sheet-like green body with ceramic powders; pre-sintering the green body at a pre-sintering temperature lower than the sintering temperature to obtain a pre-sintered ceramic member with certain strength; forming a metal electrode layer on an upper surface of the pre-sintered ceramic member; placing the pre-sintered ceramic member in a mold, with the upper surface coated with the metal electrode layer facing upwards; providing a ceramic precursor layer on the upper surface of the pre-sintered ceramic member; carrying out hot-pressing sintering in the axial direction of the pre-sintered ceramic member at the sintering temperature to form an integral structure, wherein by the hot-pressing sintering, a second ceramic layer is formed by the pre-sintered ceramic member, a first ceramic layer is formed by the ceramic precursor layer, and the metal electrode layer is located between the first ceramic layer and the second ceramic layer to from a basic sandwich structure together with the first ceramic layer and the second ceramic layer.

An example article may include a component, a substrate including a first ceramic, a joining layer between the component and the substrate, and a joint surface coating between the substrate and the joining layer. The joint surface coating may include a diffusion barrier layer including a second ceramic material, and a compliance layer including at least one of a metal or a metalloid. An example technique may include holding a first joining surface of a coated component adjacent a second joining surface of a second component. The example technique may further include heating at least one of the coated component, the second component, and a braze material, and brazing the coated component by allowing the braze material to flow in a region between the first joining surface and the second joining surface.

A hybrid sandwich ceramic matrix composite (CMC) may comprise a first facesheet, a second facesheet, and a core between and bonded to both of the first facesheet and the second facesheet. The first facesheet and the second facesheet may each include filaments in a ceramic matrix. The hybrid sandwich CMC may be configured for exposure to a thermal gradient in which the first facesheet is exposed to a higher temperature environment than the second facesheet. The first facesheet and the second facesheet may have at least closely matching coefficients of thermal expansion, and the first facesheet may have a higher compressive strength than the second facesheet.

A solid electrolyte CO.sub.2 sensor may include a solid electrolyte bonded to a substrate to join and seal the substrate, a sensing electrode formed at a first side of the solid electrolyte, and a reference electrode formed between a second side of the solid electrolyte and one surface of the substrate, and sealed by the solid electrolyte and the substrate.

In some examples, a method including forming a layer of a slurry composition between a first ceramic or CMC part and a second ceramic or CMC part. The slurry composition includes a carrier material; and a plurality of solid particles in the carrier material. The plurality of solid particles includes first silicon carbide (SiC) particles defining a first average particle size, second SiC particles defining a second average particles size that is less than the first average particles size, and reactive additive particles. The method includes heating the layer of slurry composition to react the plurality of reactive additive particles to fuse the plurality of first SiC particles and the plurality of second SiC particles together with the reactive additive particles, wherein the fused layer of the slurry composition forms a joint layer that joins the first ceramic or CMC part to the second ceramic or CMC part.

The honeycomb filter of the present invention comprises a ceramic honeycomb substrate formed from a porous body of sintered ceramic particles, and a filter layer formed on the surface of the cell walls, wherein a portion of the filter layer penetrates from the surface of the cell walls into pores formed by the ceramic particles to form inter-particle filtration bodies, these inter-particle filtration bodies are formed from a plurality of spherical ceramic particles and crosslinking bodies which bind the spherical ceramic particles to each other, and the spherical ceramic particles and the crosslinking bodies form a three-dimensional network structure.

A porous ceramic structure includes one sheet, and a porous ceramic aggregate bonded on the sheet. The porous ceramic aggregate includes a plurality of porous ceramic particles.