High Tech Ceramics News articles from April 1999

High Tech Ceramics News archives from April 1999

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Slow but Steady Growth for Refractories.
April 1, 1999... Important changes have occurred at a rapid pace in the refractory industry over the last two decades. These have resulted in the creation of new products, together with different production and application techniques. Such changes range from...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Reaction-Bonding Forms Strong Joints.
April 1, 1999... Reaction bonding makes it possible to form strong joints, with tailorable thicknesses and compositions, between high-temperature resistant structural parts made of SiC-based ceramic materials. These parts and materials are being developed for...

AIN Heat Exchangers by Injection Molding.
April 1, 1999... AIN ceramics are known for their wide range of applications in electronics mainly as substrate materials for computer application, optical components and high performance heat exchangers because of their advantageous thermophysical properties...

POWDERS AND NANOCERAMICS Two New Grades of Sintered Silicon Carbide.
April 1, 1999... High hardness, wear resistance, and corrosion resistance are all key characteristics of two grades of sintered silicon carbide introduced by Ceradyne. The first grade, Ceralloy 146-S, is designed for general-purpose wear applications, while...

COATINGS: Improved Aluminide Bond Coats for TBCs.
April 1, 1999... A process for making superior diffusion platinum-aluminide bond coats for plasma-sprayed or physical-vapor deposited thermal- barrier coats (TBCs) on superalloy substrates has been devised. The novel aspect of the process lies in the use of...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: Thermal Stabilities of SiC/SiC Composites.
April 1, 1999... Chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) is one of potential processes to produce SiCf/SiC composites with a high purity and improved mechanical properties and also has advantages in minimizing damage to fibers and making near net shape products. The...

Regenerators for Stirling Engines.
April 1, 1999... A prototype Stirling-engine regenerator containing a matrix made of carbon fiber based composite materials has been developed by Energy Research Laboratories, Inc. and funded by NASA's Lewis Research Center. The concept underlying this...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: Nanocomposite SiC-Diamond.
April 1, 1999... Ukraine scientists M.P. Gadzyra, O.O. Mykhailyk, and G.G. Gnesin at the Institute for Problems of Material Science investigated synthesis conditions of ordered solid solution of carbon in SiC using self- propagating high-temperature synthesis...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Corning to Supply Laser Lenses.
April 1, 1999... Corning, Inc. has been awarded a $16 million contract to provide high purity fused silica (HPFS) lenses and windows for the DOE's National Ignition Facility (NIF), one of the nation's largest science projects. NIF is a stadium-sized, $1.2...

BIOCERAMICS: European CE Mark for Bone Substitute.
April 1, 1999... Orquest has been awarded the CE Mark certification for its trademarked Healos bone graft substitute product. The CE Mark allows Orquest's Healos product to be marketed and sold throughout the European Community. Healos is a mineralized...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES Ceramic Beads Recover Minerals.
April 1, 1999... Researchers at the DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PO Box 999, Richland, WA 99352; Tel: 509/375-2121, Fax: 509/372-4791), have developed ceramic nanofiltration system that can recover minerals from heavy metal-laden waters,...

One-Step Process for Potable Treatment.
April 1, 1999... Media and Process Technology, Inc. (M&P, 1155 William Pitt Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15238; Tel: 412/826-3721) says it has developed a low- cost, high-performance ceramic membrane as an economical and reliable one-step treatment process for the...

Navy Synthesizes Metallic Particles.
April 1, 1999... U.S. Navy (133 E 58th St., New York, NY 10022-1236; Tel: 212/826-4653) researchers have been able to synthesize a powder of unagglomerated metallic particles at membrane interfaces, important components in the development of catalytic, sensor,...

Nano-Catalytic Perovskites Cavitate.
April 1, 1999... A simple cavitation-coupled membrane synthesis technique, says William Moser (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 100 Institute Rd., Worcester, MA 01609; Tel: 508/831-5666, Fax: 508/831-5853), offers the possibility...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Joint Venture for Semiconductors Formed.
April 1, 1999... Two major Japanese electronic materials suppliers, Sumitomo Metal Industry Co., Ltd. and Mitsubishi Materials Co., Ltd. have agreed to form a joint company to promote the development and manufacturing of a next-generation silicon wafer (300 mm...

New Alloy for Next-generation Devices.
April 1, 1999... If early studies pan out, a new alloy of silicon-carbide and germanium - developed by scientists at University of Delaware and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory - might handle hot, high-power, high-frequency microelectronic and...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: ASC Introduces Distributed-SMES.
April 1, 1999... American Superconductor Corp. (ASC) has made available a new product called Distributed-SMES, or D-SMES that may assure reliability throughout large-scale electric transmission networks by continuously monitoring the networks and...

Conductus Ships Advanced Subsystem.
April 1, 1999... Conductus has shipped an advanced 16-pole ClearSite wireless subsystem to a major Japanese cellular operator for performance testing. The system will be used for testing within Japanese frequency bands for potential future widespread field...

World's First Commercial HTS Motor.
April 1, 1999... American Superconductor has shipped four coils, manufactured from its high temperature superconducting (HTS) wires, to Reliance Electric, a business unit of Rockwell Automation. The coils will serve as the key component in the world's first...

Group in Australian Innovation Campaign.
April 1, 1999... The superconductivity group of Metal Manufactures, Ltd. (MM) has been elected to membership of the Australian Technology Showcase (ATS), an international campaign to promote Australian innovation in the spotlight of the 2000 Olympics. The...

US Cellular Orders SuperFilter Systems.
April 1, 1999... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. announced that it has received an initial purchase order for 25 SuperFilter systems from U.S. Cellular Corp. Based in Chicago, U.S. Cellular Corp., one of the nation's 10 largest cellular service providers,...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Cree Research Awarded $9.3M Navy Contract.
April 1, 1999... The Department of Navy has awarded Cree Research a contract valued at $9.3 million over three years. The award includes a one-year base period, valued at approximately $3 million, followed by two one-year options for the development of...

Ferro Corp. Sells Filtros Business.
April 1, 1999... Ferro Corporation has announced the sale of its Filtros porous ceramics business that was part of the company's Specialty Ceramics Division. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The company stated that the divestiture of Filtros,...

EDO Awarded $10M Navy Contract.
April 1, 1999... EDO has been awarded a contract valued at up to $10 million, depending on the exercise of all options, by the Department of the Navy. Initial funding for the development and production of the TR-232, a new underwater communications transducer,...

Collaborative Effort Explores Manufacturing.
April 1, 1999... Sandia National Laboratories, five commercial ceramic manufacturers, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are making ceramic history by taking the "art" out of ceramics production and replacing it with science, resulting in better products and...

ART Settles Patent Suit.
April 1, 1999... Advanced Refractory Technologies, Inc. and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences announced today that the action filed against sp3, Inc. for alleged infringement of U.S. Patent 5,567,526 "Cemented Tungsten Carbide Substrates Having...

Intermagnetics Down in Third Quarter.
April 1, 1999... Intermagnetics General Corp. reported third-quarter net income of $452,000, or three cents per diluted share, compared with $815,000, or six cents per diluted share, a year earlier. Net sales--affected primarily by timing issues in the magnet...

STI's Yearly Income Down.
April 1, 1999... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. announced its results for the 3 and 12 months ended December 31, 1998. Revenues for the 1998 fourth quarter and full year were $1,774,000 and $7,983,000, respectively, compared to $1,836,000 and $8,317,000 in...

More Losses for Illinois Superconductor.
April 1, 1999... Illinois Superconductor Corp. reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 1998. The company also announced the completion of a new $3.3 million financing and changes to its board of directors. Fourth quarter...

Nanophase Names Sales and Marketing VP.
April 1, 1999... Nanophase Technologies Corp. has appointed Daniel S. Bilicki, 54, formerly of Crosfield Co., vice president of sales and marketing. Bilicki will oversee all sales, marketing, and business development functions at Nanophase. His focus will be...

BOOKS AND REPORTS New Books from Trans Tech.
April 1, 1999... Trans Tech Publications has published two new books, which are the proceedings of the international conferences they have organized. Below, HTCN provides more details of these books. The Science of Engineering Ceramics II, edited by K....

MEETINGS: Save the Date for Powders '99.
April 1, 1999... The second annual BCC conference FINE, ULTRAFINE AND NANO POWDERS '99 will be held this year on October 24-26, 1999 at a location (major eastern U.S. city) to be announced shortly. Interest in fine particle technology is increasing as new...

CALENDAR.
April 1, 1999... May 11-14, 1999: Interceramex 99 - 16th International Ceramics Exhibition, Telford, England. Contact: Interceramex 99, PO Box 28, Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent ST8 7AZ, U.K. June 21-25, 1999: 6th ECerS-Conference, Brighton, England. Contact: The...