High Tech Ceramics News articles from April 2002

High Tech Ceramics News archives from April 2002

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Chip Sales Show Positive Growth.
April 1, 2002... The invention and evolution of integrated circuits (ICs) has powered the phenomenal success of the semiconductor industry. It produced a period of record growth that lasted more than 2 decades. However, the implosion of many Internet-based...

Highlights from the report:.
April 1, 2002... * As the line between work and home environment blurs, both the home and the automobile are becoming hubs of computing and connectivity. Home networking will enable internal entertainment, security, and business appliances to communicate....

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Lightweight Cordierite from Dyson.
April 1, 2002... Dyson Ceramic Systems has introduced Dylite, a new cordierite material that is almost half the weight of standard cordierite. The new material gives kiln furniture users the potential to obtain refractory weight savings of up to 50%, achieve...

MAC Expands to New Facility.
April 1, 2002... Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC) recently announced the opening of a new facility in Hayward, California. The 214,000-ft.2 facility will serve as the MAC-Americas corporate headquarters, as well as the new manufacturing site for WESGO Metals and...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Agfa NDT Offers NDT Solutions.
April 1, 2002... A new company, Agfa NDT, Inc., was recently formed to offer a full range of non-destructive testing (NDT) solutions. The Agfa-Gevaert Group of Belgium embarked on an aggressive program several years ago to become the leading supplier of NDT...

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS: Altair Enters Japan Distribution Deal.
April 1, 2002... Altair International's subsidiary Altair Nanotechnologies (Nasdaq: ALTI) has signed an agreement with the American-based subsidiary of one of Japan's leading exporters of international goods and services. The agreement sets the stage for the...

COATINGS: Englehard Buys Coating Business.
April 1, 2002... Engelhard Corp. has acquired the ceramic coating business of Pittsburgh-based O.Hommel Co. The new business is complementary to Engelhard's existing glass coatings line and will allow the company to offer customers a wider range of products and...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: Mullite Toughened by Microwave Sintering.
April 1, 2002... Mullite is an important material for refractory applications due to its good properties of thermal shock resistance, moderate refractoriness, hot strength, and so forth. It can be made into a more useful high-temperature structural ceramic by...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: GE Introduces New Diamond Series.
April 1, 2002... GE Superabrasives' new MBP diamond product line has been developed to meet the industry's growing demand for high-performing, continuous quality tools for trimming, roughing, calibrating, and polishing stone, ceramic, concrete, and terrazzo....

Poly Films for High-Temp Electronics.
April 1, 2002... High-temperature electronics and MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) based on polycrystalline diamond (PCD) appear to be promising because of its wide bandgap, high thermal conductivity, and large carrier mobilities. University of...

Diamond Membrane Electron Multiplier.
April 1, 2002... Russian researchers Nick N. Dzbanovsky, Pavel Minakov, and Nikolay V. Suetin (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Vorobjevy Gory, 119899 Moscow, Russia; Email: ndzb@dmw.phys.msu.su) and Eugeny A. Poltoratsky, Gennady S....

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES: CO2 Affinity Economical, Flexible.
April 1, 2002... With funding through an SBIR grant, Media and Process Technology (M&P) has begun developing inorganic membranes with a strong specific affinity for carbon dioxide that maintains material stability in harsh process environments. Because the...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Scientists Demo Silica Laser.
April 1, 2002... A team of applied physicists at the California Institute of Technology has demonstrated an ultrasmall Raman laser that is 1,000 times more efficient than previous devices. The device could have significant applications for telecommunications...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Solar Cells Combine Nanotech, Plastics.
April 1, 2002... A new generation of solar cells that combines nanotechnology with plastic electronics has been launched with the development of a semiconductor-polymer photovoltaic device by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley...

Vishay Introduces New Products.
April 1, 2002... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced new solid tantalum chip capacitors, thin-film chip resistors, and multilayer high- frequency ceramic inductors. The new Vishay Sprague 592D solid tantalum chip capacitors in low-profile "X" and "Y" cases...

Thick PZT Films Via Sol-Gel.
April 1, 2002... The maximum film thickness achievable without cracking via non- repetitive, single-step sol-gel ceramic film deposition is often called "critical thickness." From the viewpoint of industrial production, the small values of the critical...

DARPA Supports Cree's UV LED.
April 1, 2002... Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has received a contract issued by the U.S. Army Robert Morris Acquisition Center for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the development of...

KEMET Enhances High-Frequency Line.
April 1, 2002... KEMET Corp. announced enhancements to its high-frequency products organization. High-frequency electronics include products such as notebook computers, advanced video games, and high-end servers using microprocessors operating at frequencies...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: First HTS Ship Propulsion Motor.
April 1, 2002... American Superconductor Corp. announced that it has been awarded an $8 million contract by the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) to build and deliver a 6,500- horsepower (hp) high- temperature superconductor (HTS) motor designed for...

STI Expands SuperPlex Solutions Family.
April 1, 2002... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. announced the launch of two new products from their SuperPlex Solutions product family-the SuperPlex 1-1900 and the HTS-Ready Duplexer 850 Series HP. The products were introduced during CTIA Wireless 2002, the...

Conductus Completes Urban Field Trials.
April 1, 2002... Conductus, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDTS), a leading manufacturer of superconducting wireless systems, has announced the successful completion of two corporate-sponsored multisite urban CDMA field trials with 2 of the 10 largest wireless operators in the...

INDUSTRY NEWS: EDO Awarded Navy Contract.
April 1, 2002... EDO Corp. (NYSE: ED) has announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide AN/SQS-53C sonar arrays to the Naval Sea Systems Command ("NAVSEA") for use on U.S. Navy warships, including the Arleigh Burke Class guided missile destroyers....

Ceradyne Inserts Undergo Retesting.
April 1, 2002... Ceradyne, Inc. has recently been informed by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) that three lots of Ceradyne's small arms protective inserts (SAPI) for lightweight ceramic armor originally shipped in January 2002 may have a quality issue. The...

ISCO Expands Patent Suit.
April 1, 2002... ISCO International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ISCO) has announced that it has added new patent infringement claims in its previously announced suit against Superconductor Technologies, Inc. ("STI") and Conductus, Inc. in the Federal District...

Conductus Completes Private Placement.
April 1, 2002... Conductus, Inc. has completed a $7.3 million private placement of equity to support the commercialization of its ClearSite products for the wireless communications market. The transaction included both new and current institutional...

Nanophase 4Q Revenue Stable.
April 1, 2002... Nanophase Technologies Corp. announced that for the quarter ending December 31, 2001, its total revenue was $1.24 million compared with total revenue of $1.19 million for the same period in 2000, or an increase of 4%. The company reported net...

CPS Reports Net Loss.
April 1, 2002... Ceramics Process Systems Corp. announced a net loss of $480 thousand, or ($0.04) per basic and diluted share, on revenue of $4.5 million for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2001. This compares with a net loss of $194 thousand, or ($0.02) per...

MRI Magnets Buoy Intermagnetics Earnings.
April 1, 2002... Intermagnetics General Corp. reports that quarterly earnings rose led by a 41% rise in sales of MRI magnet systems. Intermagnetics said net earnings for its fiscal third quarter ended February 24 rose 8% to $3.1 million, or $0.18/share, from...

ISCO's Yearly Losses Mount.
April 1, 2002... ISCO International, Inc. reported consolidated net revenues of $1,981,000 for the year-ending December 31, 2001, versus $496,000 during the comparable period of 2000. These results do not include revenues associated with the order from a major...

CALENDAR.
April 1, 2002... April 28-May 1, 2002. 104th Annual Meeting and Exposition, St. Louis, MO. Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136; Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax: 614/899-6109; Email: customersrvc@acers.org July 10-12, 2002....