Abstract:
Screen printable, air fireable compositions comprising (1) vanadium glass or a product of silica and vanadium glass, (2) boron silicide and (3), as optional components, boron, noble metal and/or a low melting inorganic binder, wherein the glass contains 5-55 percent vanadium metal content. Electronic devices are made from these compositions. A unique feature of the devices is their sensitivity to voltage as well as temperature. Consequently, the fired compositions are particularly useful wherever switching devices are needed, e.g., as transient suppressors in electronic equipment. A process for making electrical devices by firing subject compositions on substrates in a belt furnace.
Abstract:
A current transfer brush is composed of refractory fibres, preferably high strength carbon fibres, with a metallic coating on the fibres which is composed of an under layer of a first metal and an over layer of a second metal. The over layer is of a highly conductive material such as silver and the under layer which improves coherence and adhesion of the over layer and thereby produces a very low brush voltage drop, is of a material such as nickel.
Abstract:
A SMOOTH CONDUCTIVE LAYER OF POOT REFLECTIVITY ON AN INSULATING SURFACE IN OBTAINED BY FIRST APPLYING A CHROMINUM NICKEL LAYER WHICH IS OXIDIZED BY HEATING IN IS APPLIED A NICKEL LAYER WHICH IS OXIDIZED BY HEATING IN AIR AT 250* CTO500*C.
Abstract:
A laminated glass windshield having incorporated with it an antenna of tarnished silver that is produced by applying a silver-frit paste to a surface of one glass sheet in a pattern of thin lines extending horizontally across the upper portion of the sheet toward the middle and then downwardly into a crescent shaped figure, firing the applied pattern to the glass, and treating the lines of the pattern with sulfur. The lower edges of the plastic interlayer and the other glass sheet in the windshield are cut out to facilitate connection with a lead wire.
Abstract:
Inexpensive, solderable ohmic electrodes are produced on a semiconductive ceramic body by applying to each of the opposite faces of said body a coating of a liquid composition which consists of the reaction product of fine aluminum powder and an aqueous vehicle which contains a phosphate-chromate reaction product, drying said coatings and maturing them by heating said body in air to a temperature from about 590* to 950* C and thereafter applying, to at least a portion of the areas coated by said matured composition, a silver electrode paste and refiring said body at a lower temperature.
Abstract:
An improved ohmic contact includes an alloy of a silver base material, a wetting agent and a doping agent. In a specific imbodiment the alloy includes silver, indium and zinc. The alloy does not include tin and is particularly advantageous for ohmically contacting gallium arsenide.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for forming an array of conductive crystalline dendrites of reduced rutile in a glass-ceramic insulating matrix by crystallizing certain compositions containing titania and silica in a non-oxidizing atmosphere under the influence of a thermal gradient to form a parallel array of conductive reduced rutile dendrites.
Abstract:
Organic semiconductors are described having an electron donating cation which is a Group VIa element derivative of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and an inorganic or organic electronaccepting anion. These materials are generally soluble in ordinary solvents and have resistivities between 10 3 and 109 ohm-cm. They are useful in conducting coatings, fibers, etc.
Abstract:
OXIDATION RESISTANT ELECTRICAL RESISTANT ALLOYS ARE DISCLOSED THAT HAVE A NICKEL BASE AND CONTAIN FROM 0.5 TO 5% BY WEIGHT OF SILICON AND 0.01 AND 0.04% BY WEIGHT OF CALCIUM AND FROM ABOUT 50 P.P.M. TO 180 P.P.M. BY WEIGHT OF OXYGEN IN THE FORM OF SILICON DIOXIDE (SIO2) AND CALCIUM OXIDE (CAO) IN THE MOLAR RATIO SIO2 TO CAO OF LESS THAN ONE. A METHOD FOR MAKING THE ALLOY IS DISCLOSED. THESE ALLOYS ARE ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE ALLOYS WHICH HAVE UNIFORM LONG LIFE UNDER OXIDIZING CONDITIONS.
Abstract:
A METHOD OF ATTACHING AN ELECTRODE TO A SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT COMPRISING THE STEPS OF APPLYING A CONTACT MIXTURE TO THE SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT AND FUSING THE MIXTURE TO THE ELEMENT. THE CONTACT MATERIAL COMPRISES SILVER, TITANIUM HYDRIDE AND A READILY OXIDIZABLE METAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ZINC, ALUMINUM, LEAD, TIN AND INDIUM. THE FUSION TEMPERATURE IS ABOVE THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH THE HYDRIDE REDUCES THE OXIDE OF THE OXIDIZABLE METAL.