A milling device is rotatable in one direction around a longitudinal center axis defining a forward direction and an opposite rearward direction, and includes a front part and a rear part. The front part has cutting edges, each having a longitudinal extension, and chip flutes, each having a longitudinal extension. The front part is made of a monolithic piece of ceramic. The rear part is configured to be fixed in a rotatable tool body or a rotatable chuck. The rear part is also made of a monolithic piece of cemented carbide. A front end surface of the rear part has a smaller area than a rear end surface of the front part. The front end surface of the rear part and a rear end surface of the front part are permanently bonded or brazed to each other by a joint.

A method for manufacturing an electrostatic chuck with multiple chucking electrodes made of ceramic pieces using metallic aluminum as the joining. The aluminum may be placed between two pieces and the assembly may be heated in the range of 770 C to 1200 C. The joining atmosphere may be non-oxygenated. After joining the exclusions in the electrode pattern may be machined by also machining through one of the plate layers. The machined exclusion slots may then be filled with epoxy or other material. An electrostatic chuck or other structure manufactured according to such methods.

Methods of forming a metallic-ceramic brazed joint are disclosed herein. The method of forming the brazed joint includes deoxidizing the surface of metallic components, assembling the joint, heating the joint to fuse the joint components, and cooling the joint. In certain embodiments, the brazed joint includes a conformal layer. In further embodiments, the brazed joint has features in order to reduce stress concentrations within the joint.

A hybrid sandwich ceramic matrix composite (CMC) may comprise a first facesheet, a second facesheet, and a core between and bonded to both of the first facesheet and the second facesheet. The first facesheet and the second facesheet may each include filaments in a ceramic matrix. The hybrid sandwich CMC may be configured for exposure to a thermal gradient in which the first facesheet is exposed to a higher temperature environment than the second facesheet. The first facesheet and the second facesheet may have at least closely matching coefficients of thermal expansion, and the first facesheet may have a higher compressive strength than the second facesheet.

A method of manufacturing an epitaxy substrate is provided. A handle substrate is provided. A beveling treatment is performed on an edge of a device substrate such that a bevel is formed at the edge of the device substrate, wherein a thickness of the device substrate is greater than 100 μm and less than 200 μm. An ion implantation process is performed on a first surface of the device substrate to form an implantation region within the first surface. A second surface of the device substrate is bonded to the handle substrate for forming the epitaxy substrate, wherein a bonding angle greater than 90° is provided between the bevel of the device substrate and the handle substrate, and a projection length of the bevel toward the handle substrate is between 600 μm and 800 μm.

One aspect of the present disclosure includes a turbine vane assembly comprising a vane made from ceramic matrix composite material having an outer wall extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge and between a first end and an opposing second end; an endwall made at least partially from a ceramic matrix composite material configured to engage the first end of the vane; and a retaining region including corresponding bi-cast grooves formed adjacent the first end of the vane and a receiving aperture formed in the endwall; wherein a bond is formed in the retaining region to join the vane and endwall together.

Welding of transparent material in electronic devices. An electronic device may include an enclosure having at least one aperture formed through a portion of the enclosure. The electronic device may also include a component positioned within the aperture formed through the portion of the enclosure. The component may be laser welded to the aperture formed through the enclosure. Additionally, the component may include transparent material. A method for securing a component within an electronic device may include providing an electronic device enclosure including at least one aperture, and positioning a component within the aperture formed through the enclosure. The component positioned within the aperture may include a transparent material. The method may also include welding the component to the electronic device enclosure.

A method for manufacturing a ceramic heater-type glow plug that includes: a ceramic heater; a metallic outer cylinder that holds the ceramic heater at one end and has the other end inserted in and fixed to a metallic housing; and lead wire that is connected to the ceramic heater and electrifies the ceramic heater, the method for manufacturing a ceramic heater-type glow plug includes the steps of: forming a metalized layer in a region of the ceramic heater that is connected to the lead wire; press-inserting at least the metalized layer of the ceramic heater in a connection fitting that connects the ceramic heater and the lead wire; and heating the ceramic heater and the connection fitting at a temperature at which a material for forming the metalized layer is brought into a semi-molten state and joining by mass transfer between the connection fitting and a solid layer of the metalized layer.

A support rack can include a first component comprising a ceramic material and a second component comprising a ceramic material. The first component can intersect at least one wall of the second component and the first and second components can be coupled via a ceramic weld. A method of making a support rack can include providing a first component comprising a sintered ceramic material, providing a second component comprising an un-sintered or partially-sintered ceramic material, arranging the first and second component so that the first component intersects at least one wall of the second component, sinter bonding the first and second components together to form a ceramic weld at the intersection. In an embodiment, the support rack can be a piece of kiln furniture.

The invention concerns an article (20) formed of a ceramic matrix composite structure having a plurality of ceramic fiber layers (22) and a binder material (24) interspersed throughout said layers. The ceramic matrix composite material may be sintered. The ceramic fiber layers undulate relative to one or more outer surfaces (38;40) of the article. Thus support features (48) within the article are able to share a load in use between a plurality of layers. The invention may be suited to engine components such as turbine seal segments in a gas turbine engine.