Abstract:
Disclosed is a glass composition, specifically an inorganic glass composition wherein the volume ratio of helium with a mass number of 3 to helium with a mass number of 4, namely He/ He in the helium contained in the glass (at 0˚C, at 1 atm) is smaller than the volume ratio He/ He in the atmosphere. Also disclosed is a method for producing a glass article comprising a step for melting a glass raw material by heating, a step for homogenizing the molten glass, a step for forming the molten glass into a desired shape, and a step for cooling the shaped glass to room temperature, wherein helium with a certain mass ratio is contained in the glass material so that a desired glass article is obtained.
Abstract:
Optical wave guides made of quartz glass with reduced infrared absorption and reduced attenuation coefficients are made of a glass which consists of atoms with a mass-number higher than that of the natural isotope ratio. The quartz glass or doped quartz glass consists of silicon atoms of which most or all have the mass-numbers 29 and/or 30, as well as oxygen atoms of which most or all consist of isotopes with the mass-numbers 17 and/or 18. For doping with germanium atoms with higher mass-numbers than in the natural isotope mixture, atoms of the Ge isotope are preferably used. For optical wave guides based on quartz glass with attenuation coefficients below 0.15 dB/km, glass with atoms of preferably Si and/or O are preferably used. Such optical wave guides are also suitable for transmitting high-energy, pulsed or continuous laser light in a wavelength range from 2.0 to 3.0 mu m. These optical wave guides are also suitable for transmitting holmium laser light of 2.1 mu m and er laser light with a wavelength equal to 2.79 and 2.94 mu m.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a method for making silica. A liquid siloxane-containing feedstock capable of being converted by thermal oxidative decomposition to SiO2 is provied and introduced directly into the flame of a combustion burner, which converts the compound to silica, thereby forming finely divided amorphous soot. The soot is vaporized at the conversion and/or deposition site where the liquid is converted into silica by atomizing the liquid with a stream of oxygen gas, or a mixture of oxygen gas and other gas, such as nitrogen. 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, such as an optical fiber preform.
Abstract:
This invention relates to the production of high purity fused silica glass through oxidation and/or flame hydrolysis of a halide-free, organosilicon-R compound in vapor form having the following properties:
(a) producing a gas stream of a halide-free silicon-containing compound in vapor form capable of being converted through thermal decomposition with oxidation or flame hydrolysis to SiO₂; (b) passing said gas stream into the flame of a combustion burner to form amorphous particles of fused SiO₂; (c) depositing said amorphous particles onto a support; and (d) either essentially simultaneously with said deposition or subsequently thereto consolidating said deposit of amorphous particles into a virtually nonporous body; the improvement comprising utilizing a halide-free, organosilicon-R compound in vapor form having the following properties:
(1) a Si-R bond dissociation energy that is no higher than the dissociation energy of the Si-O bond; (2) a boiling point no higher than 350°C; and (3) which, upon pyrolysis and/or hydrolysis, will produce decomposition products beside SiO₂ which are deemed to be environmentally safe or the emissions are below acceptable governmental standards.
Abstract:
Suspensions of fumed oxides, e.g. fumed silica, are prepared in non-aqueous media and the suspensions are used to cast shapes for glass or cermic products. The suspensions are destabilized prior to casting with an added gelling agent, cast before gelation, and then gelled, dried and, optionally, sintered to clear glass or void-free ceramic products.
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:
본 발명은 액체의, 바람직하게는 무-할라이드의 실리콘-함유 화합물(32)을 버너(24)의 불꽃(23)으로 직접 유입시켜서, 비결정성 수트를 제조하는 용융 실리카 유리의 제조 방법에 관한 것이다. 상기 수트는 표면(26)상에 증착되어, 용융 실리카 유리의 바디에 고화된다. 또한, 본 발명은 불꽃(23)에 화합물(32)을 공급하기 위한 주입기(31)를 포함하여, 화합물을 수트로 전환시키고 상기 수트를 표면에 증착시키는 장치에 관한 것이다.
Abstract:
본 발명의 유리조성물은 무기유리의 유리조성물로서, 유리 중에 함유되는 헬륨 중, 질량수4의 헬륨에 대한 질량수3의 헬륨의 체적비율인 3 He/ 4 He의 값(0℃, 1atm)이 대기 중의 3 He/ 4 He의 값보다 작은 것이다. 또한 본 발명의 유리의 제조방법은 유리원료를 가열해서 용융하는 공정, 용융유리를 균질화하는 공정, 용융유리를 소정의 형상으로 성형하는 공정, 실온까지 냉각하는 공정을 포함하는 유리물품의 제조방법에 있어서, 본 발명의 유리물품으로 되도록 소정의 질량비의 헬륨을 함유시키는 것이다.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a glass composition, specifically an inorganic glass composition wherein the volume ratio of helium with a mass number of 3 to helium with a mass number of 4, namely 3He/4He in the helium contained in the glass (at 0°C, at 1 atm) is smaller than the volume ratio 3He/ 4He in the atmosphere. Also disclosed is a method for producing a glass article comprising a step for melting a glass raw material by heating, a step for homogenizing the molten glass, a step for forming the molten glass into a desired shape, and a step for cooling the shaped glass to room temperature, wherein helium with a certain mass ratio is contained in the glass material so that a desired glass article is obtained.