摘要:
A process is provided for preparing mixed metal oxide materials having improved leakage characteristics when formed into a capacitor. The process comprises: (a) preparing a solution of a liquid precursor of the mixed metal oxide materials having a given composition in a water-immiscible solvent; (b) adding a small amount of water to the solution to form a two-phase mixture; (c) refluxing the two-phase mixture for a period of time; and (d) removing the water. Optionally, an additional amount of the water-immiscible solvent may be added prior to removing the water. In this case, both the added amount of the water-immiscible solvent and the water are removed simultaneously. The treated metal organic acid salt solutions provide ceramic thin films having improved leakage characteristics as compared to the prior art thin films prepared from untreated prior art solutions.
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Oxide materials having a composition described by the formula SrBi.sub.2.00- Ta.sub.2.00-x Nb.sub.x O.sub.9, where x ranges from 0.00 to 2.00 and is controlled to within about 1%, are provided having improved high temperature performance. A batch of the desired composition is initially prepared by conventional processes to provide a nominal composition that may be close to the desired composition, but not the exact desired composition. A portion of the batch is processed to form a thin film, the stoichiometry of which is then analyzed. The batch composition is then modified by adding thereto a quantity of one or more of the constituents to bring the batch composition to the desired stoichiometry. Further improved high temperature performance is achieved with values of x within the range of about 0.10 to 1.9, and more preferably, about 0.4 to 0.7, and most preferably about 0.56. The thus-modified metal organic acid salt solutions provide ceramic thin films having improved electrical properties (particularly consistent properties from batch-to-batch, improved ferroelectric remnant polarization, and much improved high temperature performance) as compared to the thin films prepared from unmodified solutions. The present invention provides for new materials, particularly new niobium-substituted, bismuth-layered structured materials and a process to make these materials on a consistent batch-to-batch basis.
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Low cost broadband infrared windows are fabricated using a near net shape process which greatly reduces the cost of machining and grinding window materials. The fabrication of zinc sulfide (ZnS) IR windows uses ceramic powder processing to avoid the expensive prior art chemical vapor deposition method. Further, the invention involves a means of hardening and strengthening ZnS as part of the powder process, with IR transmission performance comparable to undoped CVD-prepared ZnS. The compositional modification used in the practice of the invention involves the introduction of gallium sulfide (Ga.sub.2 S.sub.3) as a second phase which acts to toughen and harden the ZnS. The process of the present invention achieves a hardening effect without degrading the IR transmission properties also by means of controlling the polycrystalline microstructure grains to a very small size. At the same time, porosity, which strongly degrades IR transmission, is minimized by full densification. The gallium is introduced into the ZnS by a coprecipitation process to both lower the raw material cost and obtain a suitable submicrometer precursor for the subsequent ceramic processing. The Ga-doped ZnS is then densified into an IR window and a second phase, zinc thiogallate (ZnGa.sub.2 S.sub.4), is precipitated out as a hardening phase by heat treatment. Alternatively, Ga metal is evaporated onto densified ZnS and subjected to heat treatment to form the zinc thiogallate phase.
摘要翻译:低成本宽带红外窗口使用近净形状工艺制造,大大降低了加工和研磨窗材料的成本。 硫化锌(ZnS)IR窗口的制造使用陶瓷粉末加工来避免昂贵的现有技术化学气相沉积方法。 此外,本发明涉及一种硬化和强化ZnS作为粉末工艺的一部分的手段,其IR传输性能与未掺杂的CVD制备的ZnS相当。 在本发明的实践中使用的组成变化包括引入作为增韧和硬化ZnS的第二相的硫化镓(Ga 2 S 3)。 本发明的方法也可以通过将多晶微结构晶粒控制到非常小的尺寸来实现硬化效果而不降低IR透射特性。 同时,通过完全致密化将孔隙率大大降低,使透射率大大降低。 通过共沉淀法将镓引入到ZnS中,以降低原材料成本并获得用于随后的陶瓷加工的合适的亚微米前体。 然后将Ga掺杂的ZnS致密化为IR窗口,通过热处理将第二相(硫化镓锌(ZnGa 2 S 4))析出为硬化相。 或者,将Ga金属蒸发到致密化的ZnS上,并进行热处理以形成硫代镓酸锌相。
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Silanol-terminated aromatic imide compounds of Formula I ##STR1## where R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each selected from the group consisting of a C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 alkyl group, an unsubstituted aryl group and a substituted aryl group, Z is a divalent radical.are prepared by:(a) reacting a bromoaniline compound with a chosen silylating agent to form a compound having the formula BrC.sub.6 H.sub.5 NSi(R.sub.1).sub.3 Si(R.sub.2).sub.3, where R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each a C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkyl group(b) reacting the compound formed in step "a" with n-butyllithium, followed by reaction with a chosen halogenated alkylsilane compound to form a compound having Formula II ##STR2## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 are as defined above (c) reacting the compound of Formula II formed in step "b" with a dianhydride compound having the formula ##STR3## where Z is as defined above to form a compound having Formula III ##STR4## where R.sub.3, R.sub.4, and Z are as defined above (d) hydrolyzing the compound of Formula III formed in step "c" to form the compound of Formula I.The compound of Formula I may be polymerized. A preferred copolymer in accordance with the present invention is formed by polymerizing the compound of Formula I with a silicon compound having the formula ##STR5## where R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are as defined above,X=halogen, OH, OR, NRR, or ureido,R is selected from the group consisting of aC.sub.1This invention was made with United States Government support under Contract No. F33615-86-C-5081 awarded by the Department of the Air Force. The United States Government has certain rights in this invention.
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A method is disclosed for making amino-substituted ethynlated biphenyl compounds, which includes selectively nitrating symmetrically substituted biphenyl compounds, reacting the resulting nitro-substituted aromatic compound with a copper acetylide to replace the iodo substituents with ethynyl groups, and then reacting the ethynylated, nitro-substituted aromatic compound with hydrogen in the gas phase to reduce the nitro groups to amino groups. The preferred nitrating agent is nitronium trifluoromethanesulfonate, made by reaction of anhydrous nitric acid with trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride in an anhydrous solvent.
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[2,2,2-Trifluoro-1-(trifluoromethyl)]ethylidene-bisbenzenethiols are new compounds useful as precursors in the manufacture of polysulfide polymers and copolymers.
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A tunable impedance surface includes a varactor. The varactor comprises a bottom electrode formed on a surface of a substrate. First and second ferroelectric elements are on top of the bottom electrode and electrically connected to one another through the bottom electrode. A first top electrode is on top of and electrically connected to the first ferroelectric element and a second top electrode is on top of and electrically connected to the second ferroelectric element.
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A method of forming a conductor on a substrate including steps of depositing tantalum on a glass layer of the substrate; oxidizing the tantalum; and depositing a noble metal on the oxidized tantalum to form the conductor. The method can be used to form a ferroelectric capacitor or other thin film ferroelectric device. The device can include a substrate comprising a glass layer; and an electrode connected to the glass layer. The electrode comprising can include a noble metal connected to the glass layer by an adhesion layer comprising Ta2O5.
摘要:
Metal organic acid salt solutions for use as precursor materials for forming layered ferroelectric thin films are synthesized using an organic acid anhydride as the exchange reagent. The reaction is much faster than previous techniques, allows exact control of exchange with control of hydrolysis product, and may be used to control the solvent of the final solution. The reaction creates no water, and can be used to exactly control the extent of reaction of all metals. By using less than or equal to a stoichiometric amount of anhydride and then further reacting the remaining alkoxides, lower carbon content solutions with less decomposable organic can be formed. As such, the present invention discloses a much improved and faster synthesis technique giving improved solutions and corresponding thin film metal oxide compositions with improved and consistent electrical performance.
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A microwave-absorbing material composed of blends of polar icosahedral molecular units with a variety of host matrices, or with polymers with the units covalently bonded in a pendant manner to the polymer chain. Both blends and polymers must impart a high degree of orientational mobility to the units so that they can absorb microwave radiation. These materials employ orientationally mobile, polar icosahedral molecular units as the source of dielectric loss at microwave frequencies. Examples of these units are the polar carboranes (ortho- and meta-carborane), polar carboranes with electronegative and/or electropositive substitutes, and polar "buckminsterfullerenes."