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Method of coating a nitride ceramic member
Assignee: Toshiba Corp
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Filing: 1988-03-11
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Granted: 1989-10-24
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Expires: 2008-03-11
Abstract
Abstract A nitride ceramic member is maintained at a vacuum of 1×10 -4 Torr or less at a temperature of 1,000° C. or more, and a metal vapor is brought into contact with the surface of the nitride ceramic member. A nitride is reacted with the metal in the surface portion of the ceramic member, and a metallized layer is formed on the surface of the member. If AlN is used as a nitride ceramic material, the AlN member is maintained at the vacuum at the high temperature and a Ti vapor is brought into contact wit the surface of the AlN member to form a TiN coating layer on the surface of the AlN member. A BN or graphite mask is formed on the surface of the nitride ceramic member and the above method is practiced to selectively form a metallized layer on the non-masked member surface. By selectively forming a metallized layer by using AlN, a highly thermal-conductivity substrate having a conductive layer formed on the AlN base can be prepared.
Inventors
- 👤 Hiromitsu Takeda
- 👤 Masako Nakahashi
- 👤 Makoto Shirokane
- 👤 Tatsuo Yamazaki
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
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CPC Classifications
C; C04; C04B; C04B41/00; C04B41/009; C04B41/45; C04B41/50; C04B41/5053; C04B41/5062; C04B41/51; C04B41/5127; C04B41/5144; C04B41/52; C04B41/80; C04B41/81; C04B41/85; C04B41/87; C04B41/88; C04B41/89; H; H10; H10W; H10W70/00; H10W70/01; H10W70/05; H05; H05K; H05K1/00; H05K1/02; H05K1/03; H05K1/0306; H05K3/00; H05K3/10; H05K3/14; H05K3/146; H05K3/38; H05K3/388
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 19
Claim 1
Independent Claim
86 words
A method of coating a nitride ceramic member, comprising the steps of: activating a surface of said nitride ceramic member by subjecting the member to a high temperature in a vacuum; and bringing a metal vapor, which is reactable with an element present in the nitride ceramic member, into contact with the activated surface of the nitride ceramic member to form a layer thereon comprised of a reaction product of an element present in the nitride ceramic member and the metal vapor, on the activated surface.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
86 words
A method of coating a nitride ceramic member, comprising the steps of: activating a surface of said nitride ceramic member by subjecting the member to a high temperature in a vacuum; and bringing a metal vapor, which is reactable with an element present in the nitride ceramic member, into contact with the activated surface of the nitride ceramic member to form a layer thereon comprised of a reaction product of an element present in the nitride ceramic member and the metal vapor, on the activated surface.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein the nitride ceramic member contains a material selected from the group consisting of Si 3 N 4 and AlN.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein the metal vapor contains a material selected from the group consisting of Ni, Fe, Cu, and an alloy thereof.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
28 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein the nitride ceramic member is maintained at a temperature of not less than 1,100° C. in the activation of said surface.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
29 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein the nitride ceramic member is maintained at a pressure of not more than 1×10 -4 Torr in the activation of said surface.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
25 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of activating the surface is performed in a vessel where the nitride ceramic member is placed.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
55 words
The method according to claim 6, wherein a metal powder or metal mass is spaced apart from the nitride ceramic member by a predetermined distance in the vessel, and the metal powder of metal mass is kept together with the nitride ceramic member in a vacuum at a high temperature to produce the metal vapor.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
36 words
The method according to claim 6, wherein a metal salt and a reducing agent are reacted with each other in the vessel and the metal vapor is introduced into the vessel to form the metallized layer.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
22 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein the inactive layer contains a material selected from the group consisting of BN and graphite.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
27 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein said nitride ceramic member is AlN, said metal vapor contains Ti and said coated layer which is formed is TiN.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
31 words
The method according to claim 10, wherein the AlN member is maintained at a temperature falling within a range of 1,100° C. to 1,400° C. in the activation of the surface.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
28 words
The method according to claim 10, wherein the AlN member is maintained at a pressure of not more than 5×10 -5 Torr in the activation of the surface.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
24 words
The method according to claim 10, wherein the step of activating the surface is performed in a vessel where the AlN member is placed.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
64 words
The method according to claim 13, wherein a powder or mass of Ti or a Ti alloy is placed in the vessel and is spaced apart from the AlN member by a predetermined distance, and the Ti or Ti alloy is kept together with the AlN member at a vacuum at a high temperature, thereby producing a Ti vapor or a vapor containing Ti.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
36 words
The method according to claim 13, wherein the Ti vapor or the vapor containing Ti which is prepared by reacting a salt and a reducing agent is introduced into the vessel to form the coating layer.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
27 words
The method according to claim 10, further comprising the step of forming an inactive layer in an AlN member surface region excluding the coating layer formation region.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
22 words
The method according to claim 10, wherein the inactive layer contains a material selected from the group consisting of BN and graphite.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
67 words
The method according to claim 1, which further comprises: forming an inactive layer on the surface of said nitride ceramic member of a nitride material other than BN except for a portion of said surface which is identified as a coated layer formation region, and applying a metal to said coated layer formation region from a metal vapor thereby forming said coated layer on said region only.
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