Abstract:
A method for preparing corundum particles by a hydrothermal process which comprises adding fine particles of corundum to a starting alumina hydrate, and subjecting the resulting mixture to a hydrothermal reaction or treatment, the alumina in the alumina hydrate being deposited on the surfaces of the fine corundum particles while suppressing formation of new corundum crystal nuclei.
Abstract:
A process for synthesizing single crystalline beryl out of a molten salt is disclosed. The process comprises the steps of providing at least one flux to which is added the component oxides of beryl and optionally a colorant. The mixture thus obtained is heated at a temperature higher than the melting point of the flux to thereby form a molten salt. After the formation of the molten salt, the salt is cooled below the temperature sphere of beryl formation and is thereafter reheatd and again melted. At this point beryl crystals are added to the molten salt which thereby form single crystalline beryl from the molten salt. By the use of the process of the present invention, superior quality single crystalline beryl is produced economically and at a high yield rate.
Abstract:
The inventive process produces a Li(NbTa)O.sub.3 single-domain, single-crystalline film on a lithium tantalate single-crystal. The film is grown on the lithium tantalate, single-crystal by hydrothermal synthesis wherein the alkaline solution is heated to a temperature which is lower than the Curie point temperature of lithium tantalate. The mother material is a mixture of tantalum and lithium salts.The resulting film may guide several modes of light, and possibly modulate them.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device including a GaAs layer having a periodic corrugation on a surface thereof with a GaAsAl layer disposed on the periodic corrugation is formed by contacting a solution consisting of Ga, Al and As heated at a temperature of about 700.degree. C. to the corrugated surface of the GaAs layer and cooling the solution to a temperature of about 670.degree. C. at a cooling rate of 5.degree. C./min. whereby the periodic corrugation is not transfigured so much.
Abstract:
A method of making nickel zinc ferrite by liquid-phase epitaxial growth at constant temperature ferrite thin films having desired magnetic properties can easily be formed by preparing the metal oxide melt components from which the ferrite thin films are epitaxially crystallized. The ferrite thin films are suitable for various electronic parts.
Abstract:
A thin layer of semiconductor material with an extremely smooth surface can be grown on a substrate by liquid phase epitaxy. When the growing solution contacts the surface of the substrate, the substrate is at a lower temperature than the solution. The temperature difference should be less than 1.degree. C and depends upon the desired degree of smoothness. Both the substrate and the solution are then cooled to permit deposition of the layer.
Abstract:
z-face quartz of good quality suitable for piezoelectric applications can be grown at rates near 35 mil/da at p-T conditions easily accessible in commercial autoclaves. The growth conditions are predictable from previous systematic studies of growth rate. Cracking of grown crystals either during growth or in crystal processing can be severe and can account for as much as 15-50% yield loss. However, much of this loss can be reduced by carefully screening seeds for strain using the new polariscopic technique of the invention. Strain (and cracking) are severe with growth on highly strained seeds and at high growth rates. Carefully choosing seeds reduces the strain in the grown material for a given growth rate.
Abstract:
A process for producing amethyst crystals which involves growing colourless quartz crystals by a hydrothermal method of a temperature drop in a high-pressure autoclave on crystalline quartz seed plates oriented parallel to pinacoid crystallographic planes {0001} or to planes inclined to said pinacoid planes at an angle of up to 15.degree. with the use of silica as a charge, said growing being effected from aqueous solutions of ammonium fluoride with a concentration of from 5 to 30% by weight and containing iron introduced into the autoclave in the form of its oxydic or hydroxydic compounds in an amount ranging from 5 to 30 g/l of the solution. Said growing of colourless quartz crystals is effected at a crystallization temperature within the range of from 150.degree. to 500.degree.C under a pressure of from 10 to 1,200 kg/cm.sup.2 and at a crystal growth rate of from 0.05 to 1.5 mm/day. It is preferable to introduce inorganic compounds of lithium or sodium into the autoclave, prior to the crystal growing, in an amount ranging from 0.5 to 2.0 g/l of the solution. The resulting grown colourless quartz crystals are exposed to an ionizing radiation. In the process of the present invention the crystal growing is effected under specified physico-chemical process parameters enabling a good reproducibility of said process. Crystal growth rates are high enough and the process according to the present invention makes it possible to produce amethyst crystals with a high colour purity (without any smoky tint) and with no cracks whatsoever.
Abstract:
HYDROTHERMAL GROWTH OF HIGH ACOUSTIC QUARTZ (Q GREATER THAN 10**6) AT FAST RATES OF ABOUT 100 MILS PER DAY (2.5 MM./DA.) IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE UTILIZATION OF
PRESSURES EXCEEDING 30,000 P.S.I. (2,069 BARS) AND A GROWTH TEMPERATURE EXCEEDING 350*C.