A metal foil that has a carrier and a preparation method thereof. The metal foil with a carrier comprises a carrier layer, a barrier layer, a striping layer, and a metal foil layer. The carrier layer, the barrier layer, the striping lay, and the metal foil layer are sequentially stacked, or the carrier layer, the striping layer, the barrier layer, and the metal foil layer are sequentially stacked. The diffusion depth of the carrier layer to the metal foil layer is less than or equal to 3 μm and the diffusion depth of the metal foil layer toward the carrier layer is less than or equal to 3 μm at a temperature of 20-400° C. By setting the barrier layer, the carrier layer and the metal foil layer are prevented from diffusing mutually to cause bonding at a high temperature, so that the carrier layer and the metal foil layer are easy to peel off

Elements formed from magnetic materials and their methods of manufacture are presented. Magnetic materials include a magnetic alloy material, such as, for example, an Fe—Co alloy material (e.g., the Fe—Co—V alloy Hiperco-50®). The magnetic alloy materials may comprise a powdered material suitable for use in additive manufacturing techniques, such as, for example direct energy deposition or laser powder bed fusion. Manufacturing techniques include the use of variable deposition time and energy to control the magnetic and structural properties of the materials by altering the microstructure and residual stresses within the material. Manufacturing techniques also include post deposition processing, such as, for example, machining and heat treating. Heat treating may include a multi-step process during which the material is heated, held and then cooled in a series of controlled steps such that a specific history of stored internal energy is created within the material. Magnetic elements may include, for example, motors, generators, solenoids and switches, sensors, transformers, and hall thrusters, among other elements.

A roll-bonded clad metal sheet and a method for producing a roll-bonded clad metal sheet is provided. The roll-bonded clad sheet includes a metallic base material layer and a metallic cladding material layer which are joined to one another by a metallurgical bond. The metallic cladding material layer includes a nickel-based material whose chemical composition includes, in % by mass, a proportion of more than 50% of Ni and a proportion of 3.1% of Nb. The metallurgical bond is obtained by a thermomechanical rolling process including a first rolling phase for prerolling, a second rolling phase for final forming and a cooling time between the first rolling phase and the second rolling phase, wherein a final rolling temperature of the second rolling phase is set to a value equal to or less than 880° C.

An apparatus, material and method for forming a brazing sheet has a high strength core bonded with corrosion protection layer on the coolant side and/or layers on both airside and coolant side. The material enables heat exchanger components, such as tube, header, plate, etc., for applications, such as automotive heat exchangers, that require high fatigue life as well as high service life in a corrosive environment.

There is provided a metal-coated Al bonding wire which can provide a sufficient bonding reliability of bonded parts of the bonding wire under a high temperature state where a semiconductor device using the metal-coated Al bonding wire is operated. The bonding wire includes a core wire of Al or Al alloy, and a coating layer of Ag, Au or an alloy containing them formed on the outer periphery of the core wire, and the bonding wire is characterized in that when measuring crystal orientations on a cross-section of the core wire in a direction perpendicular to a wire axis of the bonding wire, a crystal orientation <111> angled at 15 degrees or less to a wire longitudinal direction has a proportion of 30 to 90% among crystal orientations in the wire longitudinal direction. Preferably, the surface roughness of the wire is 2 μm or less in terms of Rz.

This steel sheet is a steel sheet (100) formed by causing end surfaces of a first sheet material (111) and a second sheet material (113) to abut each other in an in-plane direction and welding the first sheet material (111) and the second sheet material (113) via a strip-shaped welded part (115), and in which a softened part (120) that is softened more than other parts in the welded part (115) is formed in at least a part of the welded part (115), and on a first end surface of the steel sheet in which an end part of the welded part (115) in a longitudinal direction is formed, a region in which the softened part (120) is not formed is provided in at least a part of the end part of the welded part (115) in the longitudinal direction, and a maximum value of a depth of the softened part (120) in a sheet thickness direction is, as a ratio to a sheet thickness of the steel sheet (100), 50% or less.

Method for manufacturing a spark plug for a combustion engine, wherein the spark plug has at least two components which are joined by at least one welded joint which has been manufactured in a welding process, wherein for improving selected material properties of the welded joint a laser beam is directed to the welded joint and in that a powder which improves the selected material properties is introduced into the welded joint which is melted on its surface by the laser beam such that the powder melts and due to a connection of the melted powder with the melted aggregate structure of the surface of the welded joint a treated area with improved material properties results.

In various embodiments, electronic devices such as touch-panel displays incorporate interconnects featuring a conductor layer and, disposed above the conductor layer, a capping layer comprising an alloy of Cu and one or more refractory metal elements selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb, Mo, W, Zr, Hf, Re, Os, Ru, Rh, Ti, V, Cr, and Ni.

In various embodiments, electronic devices such as touch-panel displays incorporate interconnects featuring a conductor layer and, disposed above the conductor layer, a capping layer comprising an alloy of Cu and one or more refractory metal elements selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb, Mo, W, Zr, Hf, Re, Os, Ru, Rh, Ti, V, Cr, and Ni.

A casing component is configured to form part of a flow path in a turbine. The casing component includes a base made of nodular cast iron, and a repaired region in the base. The repaired region includes a butter layer applied on the base and a fill layer applied on the butter layer.