A layered body, which has a change in texture derived from zirconia, particularly a change in translucency and is suitable as a dental prosthetic member, a precursor thereof, or a method for producing these. The layered body has a structure in which two or more layers containing zirconia containing a stabilizer are layered, the layered body including at least: a first layer containing zirconia having a stabilizer content of higher than or equal to 4 mol %; and a second layer containing zirconia having a stabilizer content different from that of the zirconia contained in the first layer. At least one layer contains one or more elements capable of coloring zirconia.

A thermoelectric conversion material formed of a sintered body containing magnesium silicide as a main component contains 0.5 mass % or more and 10 mass % or less of aluminum oxide. The aluminum oxide is distributed at a crystal grain boundary of the magnesium silicide.

A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body in which a plurality of internal electrodes including Ni and a plurality of ceramic dielectric layers are alternately stacked, and external electrodes. The ceramic dielectric layer includes an inner dielectric layer located between internal electrodes, and an outer dielectric layer located outside in a stacking direction and including at least NiO. A difference between average grain sizes of dielectric grains of the outer dielectric layers and the inner dielectric layers is about 10% or less. A molar amount of NiO with respect to about 100 moles of Ti is larger by about 0.6 mole or more in the outer dielectric layer than in the inner dielectric layer.

Embodiments of the invention relate to polycrystalline diamond (“PCD”) fabricated by sintering a mixture including diamond particles and a selected amount of graphite particles, polycrystalline diamond compacts (“PDCs”) having a PCD table comprising such PCD, and methods of fabricating such PCD and PDCs. In an embodiment, a method includes providing a mixture including graphite particles present in an amount of about 0.1 weight percent (“wt %”) to about 20 wt % and diamond particles. The method further includes subjecting the mixture to a high-pressure/high-temperature process sufficient to form PCD.

A carbon ceramic brake disc according to the present invention includes: a support body having cooling channels at the center portion; and friction layers directly attached to the top and the bottom of the support body without a bonding layer and having components different from the components of the support body, in which the support body is composed of a plurality of layers having components similar to the friction layers, gradually toward the friction layers from the cooling channels as the center. Accordingly, the support body can perform thermomechanical shock absorbing that is an original function and the friction layers and the support body can be prevented from separating while the carbon ceramic brake disc is manufactured.

The invention relates to a ceramic molded article (1) that has recesses (2) and comprises at least two plates (joined parts) (3) made of a ceramic material, i.e. a lower base plate (9), an upper cover plate (8) and, optionally, one or more intermediate plates (7) which are stacked on top of each other and are joined to each other on the surfaces thereof to form the molded article (1); a joining material (paste) is placed between the plates (joined parts) (3).

[Problem]

To provide a zirconia mill blank for dental cutting and machining which may impart reproducibility of color tone similar to a natural tooth and high strength to a zirconia perfect sintered body without a special sintering method such as HIP treatment.

[Solution]

A zirconia mill blank for dental cutting and machining comprises at least two intermediate layers LA and LB which satisfy the following Formula (1) and Formula (2), wherein the layer LA is contained in a section A in which a distance from one plane of two planes is within 40% of the distance between the two planes and the layer LB is contained in a section B in which a distance from the other plane is within 40% of the distance between the two planes, wherein in a case in which, a sintered body prepared by sintering at 1550° C. a test specimen cut out from the layer LA is defined as sintered body SA, a sintered body at 1550° C. prepared by sintering a test specimen cut out from the layer LB is defined as sintered body SB, a contrast ratio of the sintered body SA at a sample having a thickness of 1 mm is defined as contrast ratio CA and a contrast ratio of the sintered body SB at a sample having a thickness of 1 mm is defined as contrast ratio CB, the contrast ratios CA and CB satisfy the following Formula (3), change directions of yttria concentration, alumina concentration and contrast ratio in a stacking direction are not changed by the at least two intermediate layers.

Yttria concentration of layer LA−Yttria concentration of layer LB>1.0 mol %  Formula (1):

0.0 wt. %<Alumina concentration of layer LB−Alumina concentration of layer LA<0.3 wt. %  Formula (2):

0.71≤(Contrast ratio CA)/(Contrast ratio CB)≤0.86   Formula (3):

Provided is at least one of a zirconia sintered body and a method for producing the same. The zirconia sintered body can be used in a wide range of applications compared with ceramic joined bodies of the related art that include transparent zirconia. A zirconia sintered body includes a transparent zirconia portion and an opaque zirconia portion, wherein the zirconia sintered body has a biaxial flexural strength of greater than or equal to 300 MPa.

A method of manufacturing a multilayer ceramic capacitor includes printing an internal electrode pattern on a dielectric layer, forming a dielectric pattern in a region other than a region in which the internal electrode pattern is printed, laminating dielectric layers to form a multilayer body, exposing the internal electrode pattern and the dielectric pattern from a side surface of the multilayer body, removing at least a portion of the exposed dielectric pattern, and forming a dielectric gap layer on the side surface.

A lithography based method for the manufacture of diamond composite materials in which green bodies are prepared by a layer-by-layer construction with resulting green bodies de-bound and sintered to achieve a dense high hardness material.