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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1996
Zheng Chen, Auburn University, AL (US);
Millard Franklin Rose, Auburn, AL (US);
Peter L Adair, Auburn, AL (US);
Auburn University, Auburn University, AL (US);
Abstract
Robust, large area selective infrared line emitters can be made using composites of rare earth metal oxide fibers dispersed and interlocked in a network of connected structure-forming fibers, especially alumina fibers, where the fibers are adhesively connected by a ceramic bonding agent. Articles where the composite is formed of rare earth metal oxide fibers in a network of alumina fibers and where the two types of fibers are connected by alumina a the ceramic bonding agent show narrow bandwidth emissions with good thermal conversion efficiencies and with improved tensile strength and lower brittleness than in the absence of the ceramic bonding agent.