A ceramic composite article includes a substrate including a matrix of ceramic material defining a network of interstitial regions and a transparent material occupying at least some of the interstitial regions of the substrate. The transparent material can have a melting point lower than a melting point of the ceramic material. The matrix of ceramic material can be formed by a 3D printing process.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a fluororesin film or fluororesin laminate excellent in heat resistance and excellent in interlayer adhesion to an object to be laminated, such as a prepreg, a method for producing a hot pressed laminate using said film or laminate, and a method for producing a printed circuit board. The fluororesin film contains a fluororesin having a melting point of from 260 to 380 C., and has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of at least 3.0 nm when inside of 1 m.sup.2 of at least one surface thereof in the thickness direction is measured by an atomic force microscope. The laminate 1 has a layer A10 containing said fluororesin and a layer B12 made of another substrate, wherein the layer A10 has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of at least 3.0 nm when inside of 1 m.sup.2 of a second surface 10b thereof is measured by an atomic force microscope.

A supporting substrate for a composite substrate comprises a ceramic and has a polished surface for use in bonding. An orientation degree of the ceramic forming the supporting substrate at the polished surface is 50% or higher, and an aspect ratio of each crystal grain included in the supporting substrate is 5.0 or less.

To form, on a ceramic member or a metal member, a thermal spray ceramic coating film which achieves both the quality of a ceramic coating film and gas barrier property, and with which a composite oxide having a melting point lower than the ambient temperature will not form when used as a coating film on a ceramic member or a metal member constituting a glass article manufacturing apparatus.

A ceramic coating film-provided member comprising a ceramic member or a metal member and a thermal spray ceramic coating film formed on at least a part of the surface of the ceramic member or the metal member, wherein the thermal spray ceramic coating film contains Al.sub.2O.sub.3 and 12CaO.7Al.sub.2O.sub.3, and the weight ratio of CaO to Al.sub.2O.sub.3 (CaO/Al.sub.2O.sub.3) is more than 0.11 to 0.50.

A composite includes a component and a glass or glass ceramic material. The component has a first coefficient of expansion .sub.1 and the glass or the glass ceramic material has a second coefficient of expansion .sub.2. The glass or the glass ceramic material has a surface with a thickness and thickness differences (TTV) within the surface, and thickness fluctuations (LTV). The composite has a residual stress in the glass or the glass ceramic material (WARP), and a geometric and material-physical degree of compatibility KG4.

The invention relates to a component (9) comprising a first ceramic substrate (1) with an upper side (1b) and a lower side (1a), wherein a metallization (2) is applied on the upper side (1b), on which metallization an Si circuit (4) is mounted by its lower side via a connecting means (3). In order that the Si circuit (4) is cooled on both sides by elements with a high thermal conductivity and simultaneously a high electrical conductivity, and in order that the efficiency of the assembly is increased, according to the invention, a connecting means (5) is applied on the upper side (1b) of the Si circuit (4), on which connecting means a ceramic flat substrate (6) is attached by its lower side, and a second ceramic substrate (8) is arranged on the flat substrate (6) via a metallization (7), wherein the ceramic flat substrate (8) contains metal-filled thermal electrical vias (11) and/or cooling ducts for conveying a cooling means.

A method of producing a ceramic matrix composite including a protective ceramic coating thereon comprises applying a surface slurry onto an outer surface of an impregnated fiber preform. The surface slurry includes particulate ceramic solids dispersed in a flowable preceramic polymer comprising silicon, and the impregnated fiber preform comprises a framework of ceramic fibers loaded with particulate matter. The flowable preceramic polymer is cured, thereby forming on the outer surface a composite layer comprising a cured preceramic polymer with the particulate ceramic solids dispersed therein. The cured preceramic polymer is then pyrolyzed to form a porous ceramic layer comprising silicon carbide, and the impregnated fiber preform and the porous ceramic layer are infiltrated with a molten material comprising silicon. After infiltration, the molten material is cooled to form a ceramic matrix composite body with a protective ceramic coating thereon.

Sintered product having a chemical analysis such that, in mass percentages: SiO.sub.2 content is greater than 0.2% and less than 2%, and CaO content is greater than 0.1% and less than 1.5%, and MgO content is less than 0.3%, and alumina and other elements being the complement at 100%, the content of other elements being less than 1.5%, having a relative density greater than 90%, comprising, for more than 90% of its volume, a stack of ceramic platelets (10) laid flat, all of said platelets having an average thickness less than 3 m, more than 95% by number of said platelets each containing more than 95% by mass of alumina, having a width (l) greater than 81 mm.

The invention relates to a method for connecting at least two components (1, 2), comprising the following steps: A) providing at least a first component (1) and a second component (2), B) applying at least one donor layer (3) to the first and/or the second component (1, 2), wherein the donor layer (3) is enriched with oxygen (31), C) applying a metal layer (4) to the donor layer (3), the first or the second component (1, 2), D) heating at least the metal layer (4) to a first temperature (T1) such that the metal layer (4) is melted and the first component (1) and the second component (2) are connected to one another, and E) heating the arrangement to a second temperature (T2) such that the oxygen (31) passes from the donor layer (3) into the metal layer (4) and the metal layer (4) is converted to form a stable metal oxide layer (5), wherein the metal oxide layer (5) has a higher melting temperature than the metal layer (4), wherein at least the donor layer (3) and the metal oxide layer (5) connect the first component (1) and the second component (2) to one another.

The lithium tantalate single crystal substrate is a rotated Y-cut LiTaO.sub.3 single crystal substrate having a crystal orientation of 36 Y-49 Y cut characterized in that: the substrate is diffused with Li from its surface into its depth such that it has a Li concentration profile showing a difference in the Li concentration between the substrate surface and the depth of the substrate; and the substrate is treated with single polarization treatment so that the Li concentration is substantially uniform from the substrate surface to a depth which is equivalent to 5-15 times the wavelength of either a surface acoustic wave or a leaky surface acoustic wave propagating in the LiTaO.sub.3 substrate surface.