摘要:
Various types of diamond tools are provided by utilizing the fact that a synthetic single crystal diamond for use in a tool having a nitrogen content of 3 ppm or less exhibits an enhanced hardness in a (100) plane in a direction and simultaneously the reduction in defects. The above synthetic single crystal diamond is synthesized by the temperature difference method under an ultra high pressure at high temperature and contains, in its crystals, nickel introduced by atomic substitution or boron and nickel introduced by atomic substitution.
摘要:
A thermoelectric material has an average crystal particle size of at most 50 nm and has a relative density of at least 85%. A method of manufacturing a thermoelectric material includes the steps of preparing a fine powder and sintering or compacting the fine powder under a pressure of at least 1.0 GPa and at most 10 GPa.
摘要:
A coated cubic boron nitride (cBN) sintered body most suitable for a cutting tool having excellent resistance to wear and heat in the high-speed cutting of steel has been developed. The sintered body comprises (a) a base material made of a sintered body comprising at least 99.5 vol. % cBN and (b) a hard coating 0.1 to 10 &mgr;m in thickness formed on at least part of the surface of the base material by the PVD method. It is desirable that the hard coating comprise at least one compound layer consisting mainly of (a) at least one metal element selected from Al and the IV a-group elements and (b) at least one element selected from C, N, and O. It is desirable to provide between the base material and the hard coating an intermediate layer comprising a compound consisting mainly of boron and at least one metal element selected from the IV a-group elements.
摘要:
A high purity synthetic diamond with less impurities, crystals defects, strains, etc. can be provided, in which the nitrogen content is at most 10 ppm, preferably at most 0.1 ppm and the boron content is at most 1 ppm, preferably at most 0.1 ppm or in which nitrogen atoms and boron atoms are contained in the crystal and the difference between the number of the nitrogen atoms and that of the boron atoms is at most 1.times.10.sup.17 atoms/cm.sup.3. The strain-free synthetic diamond can be produced by a process for the production of a strain-free synthetic diamond by the temperature gradient method, which comprises using a carbon source having a boron content of at most 10 ppm and a solvent metal having a boron content of at most 1 ppm and adding a nitrogen getter to the solvent metal, thereby synthesizing the diamond.
摘要翻译:可以提供具有较少杂质,晶体缺陷,应变等的高纯度合成金刚石,其中氮含量为至多10ppm,优选至多0.1ppm,硼含量为至多1ppm,优选至多0.1 ppm或其中氮原子和硼原子包含在晶体中,并且氮原子数与硼原子数之间的差异至多为1×10 17 atoms / cm 3。 无菌合成金刚石可以通过温度梯度法生产无应变合成金刚石的方法制备,该方法包括使用硼含量至多为10ppm的碳源和具有硼的溶剂金属 含量至多1ppm,并向溶剂金属中加入氮气吸收剂,从而合成金刚石。
摘要:
Cubic system boron nitride crystals are synthesized by using a synthesizing vessel separated into a plurality of synthesizing chambers by one or more partition layers. After preparing the synthesizing vessel it is heated under extra-high pressure to achieve a required temperature gradient from chamber to chamber. A plurality of solvents having different eutectic temperatures with respect to boron nitride (BN) sources are placed in the chambers according to the temperature gradient. The BN sources are placed in contact with solvent portions heated to relatively high temperatures. At least one seed crystal is placed in each solvent portion heated to relatively low temperatures. At least one cubic system boron nitride crystal is grown in each of the solvents in the chambers by the above heating of the synthesizing vessel under conditions of ultra-high pressure and temperatures assuring the required temperature gradient.
摘要:
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.
摘要:
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.
摘要:
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.
摘要:
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.
摘要:
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.