The present disclosure relates to a method for forming a glass structure having a metallized surface portion. The method may comprise forming a structure using a flowable first material, adapted to form a glass, which includes a metal component. The structure is then treated to remove substantially all solvents and organic components contained in the first flowable material. Finally, the structure is exposed to a bath of a metal salt during which nucleation occurs and a metallized surface coating is formed on at least a portion of an outer surface of the structure.

A method for manufacturing a glass lining product including: a step of forming a ground coat layer having a thickness of 0.1 to 0.5 mm composed of one layer or a plurality of layers by applying a first glaze on a surface of a metal substrate and firing the first glaze; a step of forming an intermediate layer having a thickness of 0.4 to 1.1 mm composed of one layer or a plurality of layers by applying a second glaze on the ground coat layer and firing the second glaze; and a step of forming a cover coat layer having a thickness of 0.1 to 1.3 mm composed of one layer or a plurality of layers by applying a third glaze on the intermediate layer and firing the third glaze.

A composition for solar cell electrodes including a conductive powder, a glass frit, and an organic vehicle. The glass frit contains tellurium (Te), sodium (Na), zinc (Zn), and at least one of lead (Pb) and bismuth (Bi). A molar ratio of the sum of lead and bismuth to zinc ranges from about 1 to about 20. A molar ratio of tellurium to sodium ranges from about 1 to about 15.

This piston includes a low thermal conductivity part comprising: a porous member made of a borosilicate glass that has a lower thermal conductivity than the piston base material made of an aluminum alloy material that is the base material impregnated into the porous member. A molded object obtained from a first powder (glass powder) and a second powder (sodium chloride powder) is put in hot water to dissolve away the second powder and form pores in the porous member. The aluminum alloy material is impregnated into these pores to unite the porous member to the piston base material. Furthermore, varnish containing polyimide, etc. is applied to the upper surface of the porous member and impregnated into the pores with a varnish impregnation device assisted by vacuum drawing and atmospheric pressure, thereby preventing the pores from remaining vacant. Due to this, deterioration in exhaust emission performance can be prevented.

A high-tension busbar silver paste applied to the N-type solar cell is prepared by mixing a silver powder (a mixture of a spherical silver powder A having a median particle size of 700-900 nm and a tapped density of 5-6 g/mL and a spherical silver powder B having a medium particle size of 280-450 nm and a tapped density of 4-5 g/mL), an organic vehicle (a mixture of 3-5 wt % of polyvinyl butyral resin and 5-10 wt % of acrylic resin as a main resin) and a glass powder (copper-bismuth-manganese-tellurium series glass powder having a medium particle size of 0.7-1 μm and a softening temperature of 600-800° C.); the silver paste has large welding tension, in which the welding tension of the front busbar line is 4 N or more.

Methods and products formed thereby that include depositing a light-absorbing particle on a substrate and irradiating the particle with a pulsed laser beam to cause an increase in local temperature of a portion of the substrate contacted by and adjacent to the particle, enabling the particle to penetrate and migrate through the substrate to form a pore. The methods may include additional steps of applying a magnetic field gradient to the particle as the particle is irradiated with the laser beam in order to promote the movement of the particle within the substrate or to direct the movement of the particle within the substrate, and/or the step of filling the pore with a material that provides a functional capability independent of the properties of the substrate.

A glass composition, a macrocomposite, and methods of forming the macrocomposite including dispersing or immersing a metal in a glass. Preferably, the macrocomposite does not include an organic resin, an adhesive, or a polymer.

A method of manufacturing a polarizing glass sheet includes subjecting, while heating, a glass preform sheet containing metal halide particles to down-drawing, to thereby provide a glass member having stretched metal halide particles dispersed in an aligned manner in a glass matrix, and subjecting the glass member to reduction treatment to reduce the stretched metal halide particles, to thereby provide a polarizing glass sheet. A shape of the glass preform sheet during the down-drawing satisfies a relationship of the following expression:
L.sub.1/W.sub.1≥1.0
where L.sub.1 represents a length between a portion in which a width of the glass preform sheet has changed to 0.8 times an original width and a portion in which the width of the glass preform sheet has changed to 0.2 times the original width W.sub.0, and W.sub.1 represents a length equivalent to 0.5 times the original width W.sub.0 of the glass preform sheet.

The present invention relates to glass-ceramic/silver composite precursor compositions in the form of powders, and to glass-ceramics/silver composite materials produced therefrom. Such materials find particular use as interconnect materials for high temperature electrochemical conversion devices such as solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs).

The present invention includes a method of creating high Q empty substrate integrated waveguide devices and/or system with low loss, mechanically and thermally stabilized in photodefinable glass ceramic substrate. The photodefinable glass ceramic process enables high performance, high quality, and/or low-cost structures. Compact low loss RF empty substrate integrated waveguide devices are a cornerstone technological requirement for RF systems, in particular, for portable systems.