A method for firing a green honeycomb body and for manufacturing a cordierite honeycomb body. The honeycomb body is heated from an initial kiln temperature to a first kiln temperature that is from about 300° C. to 400° C., at an oxygen concentration greater than 16%. The honeycomb body is heated to a second kiln temperature that is from about 600° C. to 700° C. at a second heating rate of greater than 125° C./hr. The honeycomb body is heated to a third kiln temperature that is from about 800° C. to 900° C. at a third heating rate that is less than or equal to the second heating rate. The honeycomb body is heated to a fourth kiln temperature that is from about 1300° C. to 1450° C. at a fourth heating rate that is less than or equal to the third heating rate.

A method for manufacturing a multilayer varistor includes: a first step including providing a multilayer stack in which a plurality of green sheet layers, each containing a Zn oxide powder as a main component and a Pr oxide powder as a sub-component, and a plurality of internal electrode paste layers, each containing a Pd powder, are alternately stacked; and a second step including forming a sintered compact, including an internal electrode inside, by baking the multilayer stack. The second step includes: a first sub-step including baking the multilayer stack by setting an oxygen concentration in an atmosphere at 1000 ppm by volume or less while increasing a temperature from 500° C. to 800° C.; and a second sub-step including baking, after the first sub-step, the multilayer stack by setting the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere at 1000 ppm by volume or more while increasing the temperature to a maximum allowable temperature.

A method of altering a surface of a ceramic matrix composite to aid in nodule removal is described. A fiber preform comprising a framework of ceramic fibers is heated to a temperature at or above a melting temperature of silicon. During the heating, the fiber preform is infiltrated with a molten material comprising silicon. After the infiltration, the fiber preform is cooled, and the infiltrated fiber preform is exposed to a gas comprising nitrogen during cooling. Silicon nitride may be formed by a reaction of free (unreacted) silicon at or near the surface of the infiltrated fiber preform with the nitrogen. Thus, a ceramic matrix composite having a surface configured for easy nodule removal is formed. Any silicon nodules formed on the surface during cooling may be removed without machining or heat treatment.

A dielectric composition includes dielectric particles. At least one of the dielectric particles include a main phase and a secondary phase. The main phase has a main component of barium titanate. The secondary phase exists inside the main phase and has a higher barium content than the main phase.

Provided are a method for producing a ceramic sintered body having improved light emission intensity, a ceramic sintered body, and a light emitting device. The method for producing a ceramic sintered body comprises preparing a molded body that contains a nitride fluorescent material having a composition containing: at least one alkaline earth metal element M.sup.1 selected from the group consisting of Ba, Sr, Ca, and Mg; at least one metal element M.sup.2 selected from the group consisting of Eu, Ce, Tb, and Mn; Si; and N, wherein a total molar ratio of the alkaline earth metal element M.sup.1 and the metal element M.sup.2 in 1 mol of the composition is 2, a molar ratio of the metal element M.sup.2 is a product of 2 and a parameter y and wherein y is in a range of 0.001 or more and less than 0.5, a molar ratio of Si is 5, and a molar ratio of N is 8, and wherein the nitride fluorescent material has a crystallite size, as calculated by X-ray diffraction measurement using the Halder-Wagner method, of 550 Å or less, and calcining the molded body at a temperature in a range of 1,600° C. or more and 2,200° C. or less to obtain a sintered body.

The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing high-temperature superconducting yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) wire by 3D-printing, this method is divided into the following four steps: firstly, preparing a nano-level superconducting powder precursor; and then, preparing a printing paste with suitable viscosity and supporting characteristics; after that, using a CAD 3D modeling, exporting STL format model data and slicing by a professional software; implementing one-step preparing strands with low AC loss by twisting the print nozzle. Finally, the printed twisted wire is formed into a practical superconducting twisted cable through the processes such as plastic removal process, crystallizing process, oxygen supplementing process and assembling process in order. The present disclosure firstly provides an application for applying high temperature superconducting material to direct ink writing 3D-printing technology. By preparing micro/nano level superconducting core filaments based on 3D-printing, the diameter of the core filaments could be reduced, and thereby a material-structure integrative design could be implemented. The present disclosure simplifies the preparation of high temperature superconducting wires, improves the current-carrying capacity and the production efficiency of the high temperature super conducting wires, and reduces the production cost.

The MnZn ferrite material includes principal components and auxiliary components, where the principal components include: 52.5 mol % to 53.8 mol % of Fe.sub.2O.sub.3, 8.8 mol % to 12 mol % of ZnO, and the balance of MnO; the auxiliary components include: 0.35 wt % to 0.5 wt % of Co.sub.2O.sub.3, 0.03 wt % to 0.08 wt % of CaSiO.sub.3, 0.01 wt % to 0.04 wt % of Nb.sub.2O.sub.5, and 0.05 wt % to 0.12 wt % of TiO.sub.2 and RE elemental components; the RE elemental components include one or more from the group consisting of 0 wt % to 0.04 wt % of Gd.sub.2O.sub.3, 0 wt % to 0.02 wt % of HO.sub.2O.sub.3, and 0 wt % to 0.03 wt % of Ce.sub.2O.sub.3; the auxiliary components are all represented by a mass percentage relative to a total mass of the Fe.sub.2O.sub.3, the MnO, and the ZnO.

A dielectric substance includes a core-shell grain having a twin crystal structure. An interface of the twin crystal structure of the core-shell grain extends from a shell on one side, passes through a core, and extends to the shell on the other side.

A sintered body, containing zinc, magnesium and oxygen as constituent elements, wherein the atomic ratio of zinc to the sum of zinc and magnesium [Zn/(Zn+Mg)] is 0.20 to 0.75, the atomic ratio of magnesium to the sum of zinc and magnesium [Mg/(Zn+Mg)] is 0.25 to 0.80, and the sintered body consists of a single crystal structure as measured by X-ray diffraction.

A multi-layer ceramic capacitor has a structure where the dispersion, nd, of average grain size of the dielectric grains constituting the dielectric layer (a value (D90/D10) obtained by dividing D90 which is a grain size including 90% cumulative abundance of grains by D10 which is a grain size including 10% cumulative abundance of grains) is smaller than 4.