Abstract:
A method includes depositing a glass frit on sidewalls of a plurality of cavities of a shaped article formed from a glass material, a glass ceramic material, or a combination thereof. The glass frit is heated to a firing temperature above a glass transition temperature of the glass frit to sinter the glass frit into a glaze disposed on the sidewalls of the plurality of cavities.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a mirror substrate that includes the steps of providing a polishable substrate surface layer formed from ultra low expansion (ULE) glass, depositing successive layers of powdered ULE glass onto the polishable substrate surface layer, and selectively lasing each successive layer of powdered ULE glass to produce successive fused layers of ULE glass joined to one another to form a mirror substrate having an optimized three-dimensional topology. A mirror substrate manufactured according to the prescribed method is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A known method for producing synthetic quartz glass comprises the method steps: (a) forming a cylindrical SiO2 soot body having an inner portion and at least one free cylinder jacket surface surrounding the inner portion; (b) thermally drying the porous soot body; and (c) vitrifying the dried soot body with formation of the cylinder from synthetic quartz glass. Starting therefrom, to indicate a method which permits a particularly flat radial distribution in the inner portion of the cylinder, it is suggested according to the invention that the dried SiO2 soot body that is present after method step b) should be subjected to a homogenizing method prior to vitrification, the homogenizing method comprising the following steps: (I) heating the soot body to a consolidation temperature to form a sealing layer in the area of the at least one cylinder jacket, the sealing layer sealing the inner portion to the outside; (II) cooling the soot body from the consolidation temperature; and (III) annealing the soot body in the range of a homogenization temperature during a period of at least 5 hours so that the radial profile of the hydroxyl group concentration flattens in the inner portion.
Abstract:
In a known exterior deposition method for producing synthetic quartz glass, amorphous quartz glass powder particles (13) are fed to a reaction zone (12), the quartz glass powder particles are heated in the reaction zone (12) and deposited on the exterior side of a carrier (10) rotating about an axis of rotation. In order, proceeding from this, to specify a method which is distinguished by a high deposition efficiency, according to the invention it is proposed that amorphous quartz glass powder particles having a particle size of at least 3 μm together with a silicon-containing starting substance (14) are fed to the reaction zone (12), wherein the silicon-containing starting substance (14) is converted to SiO2 particles in the reaction zone, and the SiO2 particles are deposited in Co-15 deposition with the quartz glass powder particles on the carrier to form an SiO2-containing layer (11) in which the quartz glass powder particles (13) make up a proportion by weight of SiO2 in the range of 30% to 95%.
Abstract:
Sintered materials, especially sintered glasses, produced from pyrogenically produced silicon dioxide which has been processed to silicon granulates in a compacting step, and the use of such granulates in the production of formed glass bodies.
Abstract:
Subjects for the invention are to obtain a quartz powder having a high purity and high quality and a process for producing the same and to obtain a glass molding formed by melting and molding the powder and extremely reduced in bubble inclusion. The invention provides a quartz powder, preferably a synthetic quartz powder obtained by the sol-gel method, which, upon heating from room temperature to 1,700° C., generates gases in which the amount of CO is 300 nl/g or smaller and the amount of CO2 is 30 nl/g or smaller.
Abstract:
A method of producing a glass blank with a high rate and high efficiency of deposition on a starting member is provided. A raw material powder including silica-glass-containing particles is transferred with a carrier gas and supplied into a flame, and the raw material powder and the flame are sprayed on a starting member to deposit the raw material powder on the starting member and form a porous body. The porous body is consolidated by heating.
Abstract:
Sintered materials, especially sintered glasses, produced from pyrogenically produced silicon dioxide which has been processed to silicon granulates in a compacting step, and the use of such granulates in the production of formed glass bodies.
Abstract:
A method for making extreme ultraviolet lithography tool glass substrates includes generating a plasma, delivering reactants comprising a silica precursor and a titania precursor into the plasma to produce titania and silica particles, and depositing the titania and silica particles on a deposition surface to form a homogeneous titania-doped silica. The invention provides for homogeneous glass substrates that are free of striae variations and provides for beneficial extreme ultraviolet lithography reflective optics.
Abstract:
Natural or synthetic silica is deposited on a preform set into rotation in front of a plasma torch which moves back and forth substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of the preform, a first feed duct feeds the plasma with grains of natural or synthetic silica while a second feed duct feeds the plasma with a fluorine or chlorine compound, preferably a fluorine compound, mixed with a carrier gas. Any sodium or lithium contained in the grains of natural or synthetic silica react with the fluorine or chlorine of the fluorine or chlorine compound, thereby making it possible to improve the optical quality of fibers drawn from a preform built up with natural or synthetic silica, and to do so at reduced cost.