The present invention relates to a method for producing an Sr--Bi--Ta or Nb-based composite alkoxide with the structure of an atomic arrangement controlled, having a metal atomic ratio of Sr:Bi:Ta or Nb=1:2:2, characterized in that an Sr alkoxide (Sr(OR).sub.2) prepared from an Sr metal is allowed to react with a Bi alkoxide (Bi(OR).sub.3) in alcohol to produce an Sr--Bi double alkoxide (Sr[Bi(OR).sub.4 ].sub.2), and subsequently the alkoxide is allowed to react with a Ta alkoxide (Ta(OR).sub.5)...

A method of forming a solder film on a metallic surface such as a pad of a metallic circuit of a printed circuit board and a lead frame of electronic parts, which is capable of forming a precise and fine pattern and which comprises selectively imparting tackiness to only a predetermined part of the metallic surface by means of a tacky layer-forming solution, adhering a powdered solder to the resulting tacky part, and then melting the solder by heating to thereby form a solder film.

Metal alkoxycarboxylate-based liquid precursor solutions are used to form electronic devices (100) that include mixed layered superlattice materials (112) of a type having discrete oxygen octahedral layers (124) and (128) collated with a superlattice-generator layer (116). The precursor solutions include a plurality of metal moieties in effective amounts for yielding the layered superlattice materials. These metal moieties are mixed to include an A/B portion capable of forming an A/B layer (124)...

A method is provided for forming a film of ruthenium or ruthenium oxide to the surface of a substrate by employing the techniques of chemical vapor deposition to decompose ruthenium precursor formulations. The ruthenium precursor formulations of the present invention include a ruthenium precursor compound and a solvent capable of solubilizing the ruthenium precursor compound. A method is further provided for making a vaporized ruthenium precursor for use in the chemical vapor deposition of ruthe...

Metal alkoxycarboxylate-based liquid precursor solutions are used to form electronic devices (100) that include mixed layered superlattice materials of a type having discrete oxygen octahedral layers and collated with a superlattice-generator layer. The precursor solutions include a plurality of metal moieties in effective amounts for yielding the layered superlattice materials. These metal moieties are mixed to include an A/B portion capable of forming an A/B layer, a perovskite-like AB layer p...

A water repellent solution for wood includes an organo-metallic complex of a hydrophobic fatty acid coordinated with a halogenated trivalent chromium and water having a reduced pH prior to mixing with the complex. The solution imparts water repellency and a preservative effect to the wood. Wood treated with the solution has the treatment bonded thereto by a reaction between the wood and the solution.

Metal doping agents are introduced into metal polyoxyalkylated liquid precursor solutions for use in processes for forming thin-layer capacitors (10) to be used in integrated circuits such as DRAMS and the like. The dopants serve to reduce capacitor leakage current by altering a dominant type of electron emission, as determined by a change in the slope of a line plotted as leakage current versus bias voltage. The specially doped precursor solutions preferably include mixtures of Ce, Cr, Dy, Mn, ...

A composition for formation of thin-film patterns of a metal oxide which comprises a metal alkoxide and one or more nitro compounds selected from the group consisting of nitrobenzyl alcohol derivatives, nitrobenzaldehyde derivatives, nitrostyrol derivatives, nitroacetophenone derivatives, nitroanisole derivatives and nitrofuran derivatives. This composition is applied to a substrate which is then irradiated with light to perform patterning by utilizing the difference in solubility between the li...

This invention relates to improved hydrocarbon gels finding use in the fracturing of formations which produce petroleum and other hydrocarbons. The gelling agents comprise combinations of ferric salts, selected orthophosphate esters, a low molecular weight amine such as triethonolamine or triethylamine, and a surfactant.

A thermal control coating composition comprising a binder made of a condensation polymerization product of Si--(OR).sub.4 added with titanium oxide acting as a white pigment, common mica particles for improving resistance to thermal cycling and cerium oxide particles for improving the resistance to UV irradiation. The thermal control coating composition has an initial solar absorptance (.alpha..sub.s) of not more than 0.3 and an initial thermal emittance (.epsilon.) of not less than 0.8. The coa...