Ube Industries, Inc.

Hideki Ohtsubo

Yoshiharu Waku

Yasuhiko Kohtoku

Narihito Nakagawa

Kazutoshi Shimizu

Takumi Wakamoto

Takemi Yamamura

Masaki Shibuya

Shinichi Ishitobi

Shin-Ichi Sakata

Hisayoshi Iba

Yasuyuki Ichizono

Norifumi Miyamoto

Tooru Hiratuka

Provided are a ceramic composite for light conversion, which is capable of maintaining a high radiant flux even when the proportion of Gd and Ce is increased to tune the fluorescence peak wavelength to the longer wavelength side, a process for producing the ceramic composite, and a light emitting device including the ceramic composite. The ceramic composite for light conversion is a solidification product including a composition that is represented by a specific formula, and has a texture of continuously and three-dimensionally mutually entangled oxide phases including at least two phases of a first phase and a second phase, characterized in that the first phase is a YAlOfluorescent phase activated with Ce, and the second phase is an AlOphase, and the first phase and second phase account for 97% by area or more of a cross section of the solidification product, or characterized in that the first phase is a YAlOfluorescent phase activated with Gd and Ce, and the second phase is an AlOphase, and the first phase and second phase account for 97% by area or more of a cross section of the solidification product.

Ceramic composite for light conversion, process for production thereof, and light-emitting devices provided with same

A ceramic composite material consisting of two or more crystal phases of different components, each crystal phase having a non-regular shape, said crystal phases having three dimensional continuous structures intertwined with each other, at least one crystal phase thereof being a single crystal. Further, by removing at least one crystal phase from this ceramic composite material, there is provided a porous ceramic material consisting of at least one crystal phase and pores, said crystal phase and pores having non-regular shapes and being three dimensionally continuous and intertwined with each other.

Ceramic composite material and porous ceramic material

A novel ceramic composite of a solidified body consisting of at least two crystal phases of oxides selected from metal oxides and complex metal oxides, except for the Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 /Y.sub.3 Al.sub.5 O.sub.12 combination.

Fused ceramic composite

A ceramic composite material consisting of single crystal .alpha.-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and single crystal Y.sub.3 Al.sub.5 O.sub.12 is provided. This composite material has high mechanical strength and creep behavior particularly at high temperatures.

Ceramic composite material

A novel ceramic composite material consisting of single crystal .alpha.-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and polycrystal Y.sub.3 Al.sub.5 O.sub.12 and a ceramic composite material consisting of polycrystal .alpha.-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and polycrystal Y.sub.3 Al.sub.5 O.sub.12, each having a high mechanical strength and creep behavior particularly at high temperature are provided.

An inorganic fiber sinter consists essentially of (a) an inorganic substance (I) selected from the group consisting of (i) an amorphous substance consisting essentially of Si, M, C and O, (ii) an agglomerate consisting essentially of crystalline ultrafine particles of .beta.-SiC, MC, a solid solution of .beta.-SiC with MC and/or MC.sub.1-x, and amorphous SiO.sub.2 and MO.sub.2, and (iii) a mixture of the above amorphous substance (i) and the agglomerate (ii), and (b) an inorganic substance (II) selected from the group consisting of (iv) an amorphous substance consisting essentially of Si, M and O, (v) a crystal agglomerate consisting essentially of crystalline SiO.sub.2 and MO.sub.2, and (iv) a mixture of the amorphous substance (iv) and the crystal agglomerate (v), wherein M is Ti or Zr and x is a number of more than 0 to less than 1. Due to its high uniformity and high strength, the sinter is used mainly for internal combustion engine parts such as a piston ring and an auxiliary combustion chamber, and rocket engine parts such as a nose cone and a nozzle.

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