Abstract:
A glass panel unit includes: a first glass pane; a second glass pane facing the first glass pane; a frame member; an evacuated space; and a gas adsorbent. The frame member hermetically bonds the first glass pane and the second glass pane. The evacuated space is surrounded with the first glass pane, the second glass pane, and the frame member. The gas adsorbent is placed in the evacuated space. The gas adsorbent contains a getter material. The getter material contains a plurality of particles of a zeolite crystal. At least one particle accounting for a half or more of a total weight of the plurality of particles has a particle size equal to or greater than 200 nm. An activable temperature of the at least one particle is equal to or lower than 400° C.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing a doped SiO2 slurry in which an SiO2 suspension is brought into interaction with at least one doping solution, wherein the SiO2 suspension and/or the doping solution act on one another in the form of an atomised spray, the average droplet diameter of which is in the range between 10 μm and 100 μm. The invention further relates to the use of an SiO2 slurry doped by the atomised spray method for the production of doped quartz glass, particularly for the production of laser-active quartz glass.
Abstract:
A titania-doped quartz glass which experiences a reduction in OH group concentration of less than or equal to 100 ppm upon heat treatment at 900° C. for 100 hours is suitable as the EUV lithography member.
Abstract:
The glass composition of the present invention is an inorganic glass composition in which the volume ratio of helium with a mass number of 3 to helium with a mass number of 4, namely 3He/4He in the glass (0° C., 1 atm) is smaller than the volume ratio 3He/4He in the atmosphere. The method of producing a glass article of the present invention includes the steps of: melting a glass raw material by heating; homogenizing molten glass; forming the molten glass into a desired shape; and cooling the shaped glass to room temperature, in which helium with a certain mass ratio is dissolved in the glass material so that the glass article of the present invention is obtained.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a method for making fused silica glass. A liquid, preferably halide-free, silicon-containing compound capable of being converted by thermal oxidative decomposition to SiO2 is provided and introduced directly into the flame of a combustion burner, thereby forming finely divided amorphous soot. The amorphous soot is deposited on a receptor surface where, either substantially simultaneously with or subsequently to its deposition, the soot is consolidated into a body of fused silica glass. The invention further relates to an apparatus for forming fused silica from liquid, preferably halide-free, silicon-containing reactants which includes: a combustion burner which, in operation, generates a flame; an injector for supplying a liquid silicon-containing compound to the flame to convert the compound by thermal oxidative decomposition to a finely divided amorphous soot; and a receptor surface on which the soot is deposited.
Abstract:
A sol-gel method of preparing a powder for use in forming a glass is provided, along with methods of preparing glasses and glass fibers from the powder. The inventive method allows for the incorporation of a wide range of elements and compositions into a homogeneous glass or glass fiber that is substantially free of hydroxide groups. In addition, dopants incorporated into glasses prepared by the inventive method are uniformly distributed throughout the glass structure.
Abstract:
This invention is directed to the production of essentially defect-free high purity fused silica glass articles, the method comprising the following steps: (a) forming a green body from silica particulates or a porous body of amorphous silica; (b) sintering said body in a chamber by raising the temperature of the chamber to above 1720.degree. C., while purging the chamber with helium or applying a vacuum to the chamber; and (c) consolidating the sintered body in a chamber by raising the temperature within the chamber to at least 1750.degree. C., introducing an inert gas into the chamber at a pressure less than about 6.9 MPa (1000 psig), and cooling the chamber while maintaining the pressurized atmosphere to a temperature at least below the annealing point of the glass. In the most preferred practice, a green body of silica particulates will be prepared via a sol-gel process.
Abstract:
An elongate light conductor of circular or other cross-section is continuously produced by depositing, in a vacuum chamber, a powdered glassy (i.e. vitreous or vitrifiable) material upon the upper end of a descending rod of like material while training a stream of doping ions upon the same end. Vitrification may be assisted by an electron beam, also trained upon the powder-receiving rod end, and/or by thermal treatment of the rod leaving the vacuum chamber. The lower end of the rod is softened in a furnace from which a vitreous strand of reduced cross-section is continuously drawn through an orifice and wound upon a mandrel.
Abstract:
An abrasion, scratch, mar and solvent resistant glass coated non-opaque shaped polycarbonate article comprising a polycarbonate substrate having deposited on the surface thereof (i) an intermediate primer layer containing the photoreaction products of certain polyfunctional acrylic monomers; and (ii) a top layer of vapor deposited glass.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an optical fiber providing high photosensitivity in the absence of hydrogen loading as well as a low numerical aperture. One aspect of the present invention relates to an optical fiber including a core, the core comprising silica doped with at least about 6 mol% germania and at least about 0.9 wt% fluorine; and a cladding surrounding the core. The optical fiber of the present invention is suitable for the production of fiber Bragg gratings.