The ceramic ball bearing has been used to exact machine for its good properties such as heat-resistant, corrosion-resisting, and wear-resisting. The old grinding methods of ball bearing spend much time and power. Although the magnetic fluid grinding method economizes time, but cost much money. This study research the effects of spindle speed, grit size, load, and the material of float-ring and fixed-ring on the grinding characteristics by using a new ultra-precision ball grinding machine which developed by our lab. Search the optimum operating conditions of this machine for the requirement of industrial circles. Experimental results show that the converge rate of the saturated value for the sphericity, surface roughness (Ra), and the removal rate are increased with increasing spindle speed, grit size, or load. The sphericity and surface roughness (Ra) are increased when spindle speed, grit size, or load is increased. The sphericity and surface roughness (Ra) are increased with increasing removal rate in using the same grit size and load. Under a certain operating parameter of grinding process, the mean diameter and removal rate are decreased with increasing grinding time. The sphericity and surface roughness (Ra) are better when using the plastic than the float-ring and fixed ring of aluminum, but its removal rate is lower than aluminum¡¦s. First, let the average sphericity achieve saturated value by using diamond grind disk to grinding the Al2O3 ceramic ball. Then, the optimum sphericity can achieve 0.7£gm and the surface roughness (Ra) can achieve 0.1£gm by using the B4C grits of 0.5£gm to grinding.

This thesis proposes an analytical method to synthesize bandpass filter with multiple transmission zeros. By using the six pre-determined parameters including two reflection zeros, two matching quality factors, and two transmission zeros, the method can exactly synthesize the corresponding prototype of second-order coupled-resonator bandpass filter. The synthesized filters not only can provide two pre-determined transmission zeros in the lower and upper side of the passband, but also can generate an extra transmission zero in the stopband. This thesis presents the prototypes of the bandpass filter and the methods of synthesis in detail. Finally this thesis implements compact LTCC bandpass filters by using the proposed synthesis method for 3.5 GHz WiMAX applications.

The pyroelectric ceramic thin films and detectors based on PbTiO3 that exhibits a low dielectric constant and a high pyroelectric coefficient were fabricated by a sol-gel method in this thesis. The lanthanum (La) and calcium (Ca) were adopted as dopants. The PLT and PCT thin films were deposited on Pt/SiO2/Si substrates by spin coating. 1,3 propanediol was used as solvent to minimize the number of cycles of spin coating and drying processes to obtain the desired thickness of thin film. By changing the dopant content and the heating temperature, the effects of various processing parameters on the thin films growth are studied. The effects of various dopant contents on the response of pyroelectric detectors are also discussed. Experimental results reveal that the dopant contents will influence strongly on the characteristics of thin films such as microstructure, dielectricity, ferroelectricity and pyroelectricity. With the increase of dopant content, the grain size, the coercive field (Ec) and the remanent polarization (Pr) of thin films decrease. The relative dielectric constant (£`r) and the pyroelectric coefficient (g) of thin films increase with increasing the dopant content. In addition, the results also show that the PLT(10) and the PCT(25) thin films exhibit large figures of merit Fv for voltage responsivity (Rv) and Fm for specific detectivity (D*) at the heating temperature of 700¢J. In the pyroelectric properties of thin film detectors, Rv and D* increased with an increase of dopant content. However, Rv and D* decreased when La and Ca content exceeded 10 mol% and 25 mol%, respectively. The PLT(10) and the PCT(25) pyroelectric thin film detectors exist both the maximums of Rv and D*. The results are consistent with the evaluations of Fv and Fm of thin films.

A new modified-T equivalent-circuit model for the embedded inductors in LTCC is first introduced in this thesis. The model can predict the parallel, series, and ground resonant frequencies successfully. For the embedded capacitors in LTCC, a £k-equivalent circuit that can include first two resonant frequencies has been used. One example for each model has been established to illustrate the broadband features of the models. Finally, a parameter table is given to evaluate the performance of these embedded LTCC inductors and capacitors.

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the removal performance in oxidation of ammonia solution, synthesized concentration in range of 200 mg/l -1000 mg/l, in continuous WAO process over Cu/La/Ce catalyst. The operation parameters in WAO process were performed as follows: reaction temperature, influent velocity, initial concentration of ammonia and oxygen pressure. During the first stage WAO test, ammonia conversion only reached to 40.1% under the conditions performed as follows: initial concentration of ammonia in 400 mg/l, 12 of pH, 453 K of temperature, 3.0 MPa of total pressure and 3.0 ml/min of influent velocity. In the second stage experiments conducted by 453 K, pH 12, 3.0MPa and 400 mg/l, the ammonia conversion was above 86.2% over catalyst in WAO process. In addition, the conversion of ammonia were found to be 89%, 82.6%, 81.6% and 79.3% when the initial concentration were regulated in 200, 400, 800 and 1000 mg/l respectively; 91.4% conversion of ammonia could be obtained when temperature was raised at 473 K. The tests such as XRD, SEM, EDS, ICP-MS and EA were also determined. The kinetics of WAO over Cu/La/Ce catalyst in oxidation of ammonia solutions using Power-Rate Law was presented to calculate the apparent reaction order and activated energy.

The objectives of this research are to accomplish Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors, MLCCs used Temperature compensated type Ceramic powder and different design and size to confer its characteristic. The first to speak about Taiwan capacitors property development to point Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors from 1960 to recently.The manufacture procedure from Normal Metal Electronic procedure change to Base Metal Electronic procedure. The second to quote the relation document to explain Temperature compensated type Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors characteristics and main electric characteristics and the related factors such as Frequency, Test Signal Level, DC Bias, Temperature, Time, Insulation resistance and Break down voltage. The last from sample manufacture flow and structure analysis to electric characteristic measure analysis and result to discuss opposite factor characteristics. To bring up develop direction and reference material.

With the rapidly progress in the microwave communication systems, miniaturization and performance enhancement have become two main requirements of the microwave devices. Microwave dielectric substrates would be the best choice for these requirements, because high dielectric constant of the substrates would reduce the size of the devices, high quality factor of the substrates would improve the microwave characteristics of the devices, and low temperature coefficient of resonant frequency would reduce the shift of the operating frequencies due to the variation of temperature. As mentioned above, the main research of this dissertation is divided into two parts: microwave dielectric materials and microwave filters. 1. Microwave dielectric materials AB2O6 (A=Mg, Zn; B=Ta, Nb) microwave dielectric ceramics have been developed as the microwave dielectric resonators (DRs) in the past, because the dielectric resonators fabricated by AB2O6 ceramics reveal the good microwave dielectric characteristics. However, the temperature coefficients of resonant frequency of MgTa2O6, MgNb2O6, ZnTa2O6, and ZnNb2O6 ceramics are still not good enough for the applications at the microwave frequency. In addition, MgTa2O6 and ZnTa2O6 ceramics reveal positive temperature coefficients of resonant frequency but the MgNb2O6 and ZnNb2O6 ceramics reveal negative temperature coefficients of resonant frequency. In this study, combining of MgNb2O6 ceramics (with negative temperature coefficients of resonant frequency) and MgTa2O6 ceramics (with positive temperature coefficients of resonant frequency) to form Mg(Ta1-xNbx)2O6 ceramics and combining of ZnNb2O6 ceramics (with negative temperature coefficients of resonant frequency) and ZnTa2O6 ceramics (with positive temperature coefficients of resonant frequency) to form Zn(Ta1-xNbx)2O6 ceramics, which all reveal near-zero temperature coefficients of resonant frequencyand are suitable for the applications of microwave communication devices. The sintering and microwave dielectric characteristics of the Mg(Ta1-xNbx)2O6 and Zn(Ta1-xNbx)2O6 dielectric ceramics are also investigated. 2. Wide-band, dual-band, tri-band, and tetra-band bandpass filters Microwave filters have been widely used in the communication systems. The optimal microwave dielectric characteristics of AB2O6 ceramics developed in this thesis were adopted as the substrates of the filters. The performance of the filters was improved obviously due to the high dielectric constant and high quality factor of the microwave dielectric ceramic substrates. At first, a wide-band and a dual-band (2.45/5.2 GHz) bandpass filters are developed by the combination technique of modified end-coupled microstrip lines and half-wavelength ombination technique will generate three transmission zeros easily in the stop-band to improve the characteristics of the filters. And the next, the tri-band (1.57/2.45/5.2 GHz) bandpass filters are developed by the combination of modified end-coupled microstrip lines, outer-frame structures and half-wavelength U-shaped hairpin resonators. The Defected Grounded Structures (DGS) are add into the ground planes of the tri-band bandpass filters to generate the fourth frequency (3.5 GHz), hence, the tetra-band (1.57/2.45/3.5/5.2 GHz) bandpass filters are accomplished. In addition, due to the uses of the high dielectric constant ceramic substrates and the combination techniques, the size of this tetra-band bandpass filter is only 26.3 mm*9.9 mm. Besides, six deeply transmission zeros are generated in the stop-band to improve the characteristics of the filters (1~7 GHz), all the characteristics of this tetra-band filters (frequency, bandwidth, insertion loss, and stop-band rejection) are suitable for the applications of modern communication systems.

This thesis contains two parts of materials characterization. Part I is a poly(butylene succinate) copolymer with minor amount of 2-methyl-propylene succinate. In the second part, six kinds of implant crowns made from five dental casting alloys and one Zircoina ceramic are studied. Copolyester was synthesized and characterized as having 89.0 mol% butylene succinate units and 11.0 mol% 2-methyl-propylene succinate units in a random sequence, revealed by NMR. Isothermal crystallization kinetics was studied in the temperature range (Tc) from 75 to 91 ¢XC using differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). The melting behavior after isothermal crystallization was studied by using DSC by varying the Tc, the crystallization time and the scanning rate. DSC curves showed triple melting peaks. Multiple melting behaviors indicate that the upper melting peaks are associated with the primary and the recrystallized crystals, or the crystals with different lamellar thickness. As the Tc increases, the contribution of recrystallization slowly decreases and finally disappears. A Hoffman-Weeks linear plot gives an equilibrium melting temperature of 118.4 ¢XC. The spherulitic growth rates of this copolyester were measured at Tc between 69 and 91 ¢XC using an optical microscope equipped with a CCD camera. The kinetic analysis of the growth rates gave a regime II-III transition temperature at about 77.2 ¢XC. Rectangular specimens of 10 ¡Ñ 9 ¡Ñ 4 mm were made of five kinds of casting alloys, separately. They were treated in the same procedures as crowns did. Their surfaces after oxidation were analyzed using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Rectangular specimens after applying porcelains were ~5.5 mm thick. The cross-section areas were studied by electron probe micro analyzer (EPMA). Standardized maxillary premolar crowns were fabricated with five different alloys and one Zircoina ceramic. The crown specimens were positioned in a custom testing apparatus and vertically loaded on the middle of the occlusal surface with a universal testing machine at a crosshead speed of 0.5 mm/min until fracture. Mean values of load at fracture were calculated in each alloy and compared with a one-way analysis of variance and Tukey test (£\=0.05). The fracture surfaces were examined using SEM. The results of XPS, SEM and EPMA indicate that on the surface there was an oxidation layer (or interface between metal and ceramic) of indium (or/and tin, zinc, etc.). The concentration of oxide metal increased, whereas that of precious metal decreased, from bulk to interface. The fracture strength and the fracture path of the crowns were correlated with the metal-ceramic interface of the rectangular specimens that was characterized using XPS, SEM and EPMA.

The mechanical and electrical properties of thin films have been become important and urgent in recent years, especially, the laminated structure made by films stacked over hundreds of layers. For example, the Multi-Layered Ceramic Capacitors (MLCCs) are such structures fabricated by one layer ceramic film interleaves with one layer electrode film repeatedly a hundred times. Thus, the advantages of MLCCs include small volume, mass product, and high capacity. That makes the MLCCs the necessary part of passive components. The Finite element method is adopted in the study. The model is built by the simulation program of ANSYS. After meshing and setting boundary conditions, the numerical process is performed. The numerical simulation was started first by applying a uniformly distributed pressure on the top of near hundred layers of MLCCs before sintering process with the bottom plate fixed. Then, the displacement and stress fields of MLCCs under five pressures were obtained and discussed. In order to visualize the results, the data of displacement and the stress fields were listed in Tables and plot in Figures. In addition to the MLCCs under vertically and uniformly distributed pressure, the slightly slant distributed pressure and gradient distributed pressure had been simulated. Next, the results of changing Young¡¦s modulus had also been received. It is found that the vertical distributed pressure and slant distributed pressure were not the main factor led to the side deformation. The lateral constraint of gradient distributed pressure would influence the deformation of the MLCCs significantly.

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