Abstract:
A boron nitride system starts with an hBN material and yields a directly converted sintered cBN body having a high heat conductivity within the range of at least 4 W/cm..degree.C. to about 6.2 W/cm..degree.C. For this purpose the hBN starting material of the system has diffused therein an additive of an alkaline earth metal or alkali metal in an amount of from 0.6 mol % to 1.3 mol %. This starting material is directly converted into the cBN at a sintering temperature of at least 1350.degree. C. under a thermodynamically stabilized condition for the cBN, which contains cBN within the range of 99.9 to 99.3 wt. % of the sintered body and a metal remainder from the additive of the starting material within the range of 0.1 to 0.7 wt. % of the sintered body, except for minute naturally occurring components.
Abstract:
A sintered compact of cubic boron nitride is made by adsorbing and/or diffusing 0.005 to 1.000 percent by weight of water into a boron nitride compact containing alkaline earth metal boron nitride as a catalyst. The so prepared compact is then subjected to a treatment under high pressure at a relatively low temperature to form a dense cubic boron nitride sintered compact of high purity.
Abstract:
Nano polycrystalline diamond is composed of carbon, an element of different type which is an element other than carbon and is added to be dispersed in carbon at an atomic level, and an inevitable impurity. The polycrystalline diamond has a crystal grain size not greater than 500 nm. The polycrystalline diamond can be fabricated by subjecting graphite in which the element of different type which is an element other than carbon has been added to be dispersed in carbon at an atomic level to heat treatment within high-pressure press equipment.
Abstract:
Single-crystal diamond is composed of carbon in which a concentration of a carbon isotope 12C is not lower than 99.9 mass % and a plurality of inevitable impurities other than carbon. The inevitable impurities include nitrogen, boron, hydrogen, and nickel, and a total content of nitrogen, boron, and hydrogen of the plurality of inevitable impurities is not higher than 0.01 mass %. In order to manufacture single-crystal diamond, initially, a hydrocarbon gas in which a concentration of the carbon isotope 12C is not lower than 99.9 mass % is subjected to denitrification.
Abstract:
One object of the present invention is to provide a wire drawing die excellent in strength and wear resistance. The wire drawing die has a core formed using highly hard diamond polycrystalline body made substantially only of diamond and produced by directly converting a raw material composition including a non-diamond type carbon material into diamond and sintering the diamond at an ultra high pressure and an ultra high temperature without adding a sintering aid or a catalyst, the polycrystalline body having a mixed construction including fine-grained diamond crystals with a maximum grain size of less than or equal to 100 nm and an average grain size of less than or equal to 50 nm and plate-like or particulate coarse-grained diamond crystals with a minimum grain size of greater than or equal to 50 nm and a maximum grain size of less than or equal to 10000 nm.
Abstract:
There are provided sufficiently strong, hard, and heat resistant, dense and homogenous polycrystalline diamond applicable to cutting tools, dressers, dies and other working tools and excavation bits and the like, and a cutting tool having a cutting edge of the polycrystalline diamond. The polycrystalline diamond is formed substantially only of diamond formed using a composition of material containing a non diamond type carbon material, the composition of material being converted directly into diamond and sintered at ultra high pressure and ultra high temperature without aid of a sintering aid or a catalyst, and has a mixed microstructure having a fine crystal grain of diamond having a maximal grain size of at most 100 nm and an average grain size of at most 50 nm and a coarse crystal grain of diamond in the form of one of a platelet and a granule having a grain size of at least 50 nm and at most 10,000 nm.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing n-type semiconductor diamond by the present invention is characterized in producing diamond incorporating Li and N by implanting Li ions into, so that 10 ppm thereof will be contained in, single-crystal diamond incorporating 10 ppm or more N, or else, in doping single-crystal diamond with Li and N ions, by implanting the ions so that ion-implantation depths at which the post-implantation Li and N concentrations each are 10 ppm or more will overlap, and thereafter annealing the diamond in a temperature range of from 800° C. or more to less than 1800° C. to electrically activate the Li and N and restore the diamond crystalline structure. In the present invention, n-type semiconductor diamond incorporates, from the surface of the crystal to the same depth, 10 ppm or more of each of Li and N, wherein its sheet resistance is 107 Ω/□ or less.
Abstract:
The object of the present invention is to provide a cutting tool consisting of fine grain cBN free from a binder and having a grain size of at most 1 &mgr;m and having a high hardness, high strength and excellent heat resistance. The feature thereof consists in a cutting tool compring, as an edge part, a cubic boron nitride sintered compact containing cubic boron nitride having an average grain diameter of at most 1 &mgr;m, in which the cubic boron nitride sintered compact has, at the said edge part, an I(220)/I(111) of (220) diffraction intensity (I(220)) to (111) diffraction intensity (I(111)) ratio of at least 0.05 in X-ray diffraction of arbitrary direction and impurities are substantially not contained in the grain boundaries.
Abstract:
A colorless and transparent, substantially inclusion-free diamond crystal which can be applied to decorative uses and optical parts is synthesized by a process using a temperature gradient method in an ultra-high pressure apparatus. This process comprises using, as a solvent for the growth of the crystal, at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, Mn and Cr (at least two metals in the case of containing Fe) and as a nitrogen getter for the removal of nitrogen in the solvent, at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Al, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb and Ta in a proportion of 0.5 to 7% by weight (at most 2% by weight when using only Al) to the solvent metal.
Abstract:
An improved diamond sintered body having an excellent breakage resistance, corrosion resistance, heat resistance and wear resistance and capable of being sintered at a relatively low pressure and low temperature can be provided. The feature thereof consists in a diamond sintered body comprising 50 to 99.9 volume % of diamond and the balance of a binder phase consisting of a single or mixed phase of a compound (C) or composite (C') of at least one element (A) selected from the group consisting of rare earth elements, Group 3B, 4A, 4B and 6B elements of Periodic Table, iron group, Mn, V, alkali metals and alkaline earth metals with a phosphorus compound (B), or of the above described compound (C) or composite (C') with an oxide of (A).