Abstract:
The invention is a solution impregnation and drying treatment that imparts a high temperature binder into an already formed porous green body composed of particulate batch material. The batch material includes inorganic compounds and binder. The result is reduced sag and distortion and the same or increased strength when the porous body is later fused during sintering/firing.
Abstract:
A flexible substrate is described herein which is made from a freestanding inorganic material (e.g., mica paper, carbon paper, glass fiber paper) with pores/interstices that have been impregnated with a special impregnating material (e.g., silsesquioxane, alkali silicate glass with weight ratio of SiO2/X2O (X is alkali Na, K etc.) between 1.6-3.5). In one embodiment, the flexible substrate is made by: (1) providing a freestanding inorganic material; (2) providing an impregnating material; (3) impregnating the pores/interstices within the freestanding inorganic material with the impregnating material; and (4) curing the freestanding inorganic material with the impregnated pores/interstices to form the flexible substrate. The flexible substrate is typically used to make a flexible display or a flexible electronic.
Abstract:
Manufacturing an optical fiber by using an outside vapor deposition technique for making a substrate, applying one or more layers to the substrate using a radial pressing technique to form a soot blank, sintering the soot blank in the presence of a gaseous refractive index-modifying dopant, and drawing the sintered soot blank, provides a more efficient and cost effective process for generating complex refractive index profiles.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for making an optical fiber preform comprising the steps of (i) depositing a plurality of rods are deposited into an inner cavity of an apparatus; (ii) depositing particulate glass material in the inner cavity between the rods and the inner wall; and (iii) applying pressure against the particulate glass material to pressurize the particulate glass material against the plurality of rods.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to methods of forming a vessel and to the resulting vessel. The vessel may be formed by providing a first fumed silica soot layer comprised of primary particles of fumed silica soot, and then providing over the first fumed silica soot layer a second fumed silica soot layer comprised of agglomerated particles formed into an agglomerated form from primary particles of fumed silica soot. The primary particles of the first fumed silica soot layer may have a substantially uniform density distribution, and the agglomerated particles of the second fumed silica soot layer may have a substantially non-uniform density distribution. The methods may include consolidating the first and second soot layers together to form a consolidated body.
Abstract:
According to some embodiments a single mode fiber includes: a germania doped central core region having outer radius r1 and relative refractive index Δ1; and a cladding region comprising (i) a first inner cladding region having an outer radius r2>6 microns and relative refractive index Δ2 and 0.3≦r1/r2≦0.85; and (ii) a second inner cladding region having an outer radius r3>9 microns and comprising a minimum relative refractive index Δ3, wherein said second inner cladding region has at least one region with a relative refractive index delta that becomes more negative with increasing radius; and (iii) an outer cladding region surrounding the inner cladding region and comprising relative refractive index Δ4, wherein Δ1>Δ2>Δ3, Δ3
Abstract:
Methods for forming optical fiber preforms with low-index trenches are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method includes depositing silica-based glass soot on a bait rod to form a low-index trench region of the optical fiber preform. The silica-based glass soot is deposited such that the low-index trench region has a first density. Thereafter a barrier layer having a second density greater than the first density is formed around the low-index trench region. Therafter, an overclad region is deposited around the barrier layer. The bait rod is then removed from a central channel of the trench-overclad assembly. A separate core assembly is inserted into the central channel. A down-dopant gas is then directed through the central channel of the trench-overclad assembly as the trench-overclad assembly is heated to dope the low-index trench region. The barrier layer prevents diffusion of the down-dopant from the low-index trench region into the overclad region.
Abstract:
A filter apparatus comprising an organic antioxidant. The filter apparatus may be use, for example, in the removal of a toxic metal from a fluid stream.
Abstract:
A method for preparing ordered mesoporous silicon carbide (OMSiC) nanocomposites uses an evaporation-induced self-assembly of a precursor composition that preferably includes a phenolic resin, pre-hydrolyzed tetraethyl orthosilicate, a surfactant, and butanol. The precursor mixture is dried, cross-linked and heated to form ordered mesoporous silicon carbide material having discrete domains of ordered, mesoscale pores.
Abstract:
A method for preparing ordered mesoporous silicon carbide (OMSiC) nanocomposites uses an evaporation-induced self-assembly of a precursor composition that preferably includes a phenolic resin, pre-hydrolyzed tetraethyl orthosilicate, a surfactant, and butanol. The precursor mixture is dried, cross-linked and heated to form ordered mesoporous silicon carbide material having discrete domains of ordered, mesoscale pores.