A sputtering target according to the present invention contains Co and one or more metals selected from the group consisting of Cr and Ru, as metal components, wherein a molar ratio of the content of the one or more metals to the content of Co is or more, and wherein the sputtering target contains Nb.sub.2O.sub.5 as a metal oxide component.

A metal matrix composite to high tolerate wear as a property has been produced by infiltration casting of a Fe Alloy and a spinel ceramic by using a material design for i) metal transport phenomena conditions, ii) predefined wetting and capillarity and iii) processing child insert/mother casting methodology to produce a final casting in shape and form to meet the needs of a mining end user.

Systems and methods for oxide-based doping of an evaporable getter are described herein. In certain embodiments, a method includes mixing a first getter material with a second getter material to create a mixed getter material. The method also includes mixing an oxide dopant with the mixed getter material to create a doped getter material. Further, the method includes sealing the doped getter material within a device. Moreover, the method includes applying heat to the doped getter material to cause the doped getter material to emit a doped gas for deposition on internal surfaces of the device.

A drawing die made from cemented carbide material is formed of tungsten carbide and a metallic binder. The cemented carbide material includes: tungsten carbide with an average grain size of 0.15-1.3 m, 0.5-5.0 wt.-% (Co+Ni), with a ratio Co/(Co+Ni) of 0.6-0.9; 0.1-1.0 wt.-% Cr, with 0.05Cr/(Co+Ni)0.22; 0.02-0.2 wt.-% Mo; and 0-0.04 wt.-% V. The cemented carbide material is substantially free from -phase.

A process for manufacturing ceramic-metal composite material, comprises dissolving ceramic powder into water to obtain an aqueous solution of ceramic; mixing metal powder having a multimodal particle size where largest particle size is one fourth of the minimum dimension of a device, with the aqueous solution of ceramic to obtain a powder containing ceramic precipitated on the surface of metal particles; mixing the powder containing ceramic precipitated on the surface of the metal particles, with ceramic powder having a particle size below 50 m, to obtain a powder mixture; adding saturated aqueous solution of ceramic to the powder mixture to obtain an aqueous composition containing ceramic and metal; compressing the aqueous composition to form a disc of ceramic-metal composite material containing ceramic and metal; and removing water from the ceramic-metal composite material; wherein ceramic content of the disc is 10 vol-% to 35 vol-%. Alternatively, ceramic-ceramic composite material may be manufactured.

A target for use in a physical vapor deposition process includes a matrix composed of a composite material selected from the group consisting of aluminum-based material, titanium-based material and chromium-based material and all combinations thereof. The matrix is doped with doping elements and the doping elements are embedded as constituents of ceramic compounds or aluminum alloys in the matrix. The doping elements are selected from the group of the lanthanides: La, Ce, Nb, Sm and Eu. A process for producing such a target and a use of such a target in a physical vapor deposition process are also provided.

An additive manufacturing technique may include forming, on a surface of a substrate, a layer of material using an additive manufacturing technique. The material may include a sacrificial binder and a powder comprising an oxide-dispersion strengthened alloy dispersed in the binder. The technique may include forming, on the layer of material, at least one additional layer of material to form an additively manufactured component. The binder may be selectively sacrificed to leave the powder, for example, to form a component including an alloy.

A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a multilayer chip in which each of dielectric layers and each of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked and are alternately exposed to two edge faces thereof; and external electrodes formed on the two edge faces; wherein: the external electrodes have a structure in which a plated layer is formed on a ground layer whose main component is a metal or an alloy, a thermal expansion coefficient of the metal being larger than that of a main ceramic component of the dielectric layer, the ground layer including a ceramic additive; outermost layers of the multilayer chip are cover layers whose main component is a main component of the dielectric layer; and thermal expansion coefficients satisfy a relationship of, the main component of the ground layer>the main component of the cover layers>the ceramic additive.

A process of forming an oxide dispersion strengthened alloy, comprises distributing an alloy powder on a platform; applying a uniform nanometer-scale metal oxide onto the alloy powder; applying an energy beam onto the alloy powder and the uniform nanometer-scale metal oxide; and forming an oxide dispersion strengthened alloy.

A composite material for medical devices includes a superelastic shape memory alloy configured or constituting a matrix and a metal oxide which is dispersed in the matrix.