A bonded body according to an embodiment includes a ceramic substrate, a copper plate, and a bonding layer that is located on at least one surface of the ceramic substrate and bonds the ceramic substrate and the copper plate. The bonding layer includes titanium. The bonding layer includes first and second regions; the first region includes a layer including titanium as a major component; the layer is formed at an interface of the bonding layer with the ceramic substrate; and the second region is positioned between the first region and the copper plate. The bonded body has a ratio M1/M2 of a titanium concentration M1 at % in the first region and a titanium concentration M2 at % in the second region that is not less than 0.1 and not more than 5 when the Ti concentrations are measured by EDX respectively in measurement regions in the first and second regions.

A copper-graphene bonded body is a copper-graphene bonded body including a copper member made of copper or a copper alloy and a ceramic member made of silicon nitride, the copper member. The copper member and the ceramic member are bonded to each other, between the copper member and the graphene-containing carbonaceous member, an active metal carbide layer containing a carbide of one or more kinds of active metal selected from Ti, Zr, Nb, and Hf is formed on a side of the graphene-containing carbonaceous member, and a Mg solid solution layer having Mg dissolved in a matrix phase of Cu is formed between the active metal carbide layer and the copper member.

A multilayer component and a mathod for producing a multilayer component are disclosed. In an embodiment the multilayer component includes a ceramic main element being a varistor ceramic and at least one metal structure, wherein the metal structure is cosintered, and wherein the main element is doped with a material of the metal structure in such a way that a diffusion of the material from the metal structure into the main element during a sintering operation is reduced.

A method for assembling a zirconia part to a titanium element with braze, the method comprising the following steps: coating a surface of the titanium element with a niobium layer, positioning a braze between the zirconia part and the niobium, the braze being of gold or a gold alloy, heating the whole to a temperature higher than the melting temperature of the braze, and then cooling the whole, whereby an assembly comprising the zirconia part and the titanium element assembled by a brazing joint comprising a first portion of gold or a gold alloy, a second portion formed by a reaction layer comprising intermetallics of the AuNbTi system, and a third portion formed by an oxide reaction layer is obtained.

In some examples, a method including forming a layer of a slurry composition between a first ceramic or CMC part and a second ceramic or CMC part. The slurry composition includes a carrier material; and a plurality of solid particles in the carrier material. The plurality of solid particles includes first silicon carbide (SiC) particles defining a first average particle size, second SiC particles defining a second average particles size that is less than the first average particles size, and reactive additive particles. The method includes heating the layer of slurry composition to react the plurality of reactive additive particles to fuse the plurality of first SiC particles and the plurality of second SiC particles together with the reactive additive particles, wherein the fused layer of the slurry composition forms a joint layer that joins the first ceramic or CMC part to the second ceramic or CMC part.

A method according to the invention for producing a connection between two surfaces or surface sections of two ceramic parts comprises: provision of a first ceramic part and of a second ceramic part; provision of an active brazing solder material on at least one surface section of at least one of the ceramic parts; and heating the active brazing solder in a vacuum brazing process. The whole active brazing solder material is provided for connecting the first and the second ceramic part by a sputtering method, wherein at least one surface section of at least one of the ceramic parts, preferably of the two ceramic parts, is layered with a layer sequence of individual components of the active brazing solder material, wherein the average strength of the layers of an individual component of the active brazing solder is no more than 0.5%, in particular not more than 0.2%, preferably not more than 0.1% and especially preferably not more than 0.05% of the strength of the joining region.

This copper/ceramic bonded body includes a copper member made of copper or a copper alloy, and a ceramic member made of aluminum nitride, in which the copper member and the ceramic member are bonded to each other, and a Mg—O layer is formed at a bonding interface between the copper member and the ceramic member.

There are provide a metal/ceramic bonding substrate wherein the bonding strength of an aluminum plate bonded directly to a ceramic substrate is higher than that of conventional metal/ceramic bonding substrates, and a method for producing the same. The metal/ceramic bonding substrate is produced by a method including the steps of: arranging a ceramic substrate 10 in a mold 20; putting the mold 20 in a furnace; lowering an oxygen concentration to 25 ppm or less and a dew point to −45° C. or lower in the furnace; injecting a molten metal of aluminum into the mold 20 so as to allow the molten metal to contact the surface of the ceramic substrate 10; and cooling and solidifying the molten metal to form a metal plate 14 for circuit pattern of aluminum on one side of the ceramic substrate 10 to bond one side of the metal plate 14 for circuit pattern directly to the ceramic substrate 10, while forming a metal base plate 12 of aluminum on the other side of the ceramic substrate 10 to bond the metal base plate 12 directly to the ceramic substrate 10.

The object of the present invention is an integrally bonded composite component, a method for the production thereof, and the use thereof. The invention particularly relates to integrally bonded transparent ceramic composite components, to a method for the production of such ceramic composite components, and to the use thereof.

To prevent braze stain and improve solder bondability of a semiconductor chip without deteriorating bondability between a metal plate and a ceramic substrate: a producing method of a power-module substrate by braze-bonding a metal plate which is blanked by press working on a metal raw-plate on one surface of a ceramic substrate: in the metal plate, a height of burrs is 0.021 mm or smaller, a thickness of a fracture surface is 0.068 mm or larger; the metal plate is stacked on the ceramic substrate so as to stack a surface thereof on a side at which the burrs are generated is in contact with the one surface of the ceramic substrate and brazed.