High Tech Ceramics News articles from April 2004

High Tech Ceramics News archives from April 2004

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Bright Outlook for SOFC Market.
April 1, 2004... The fuel cell industry is one of the fastest growing segments of the power industry due to the need for reliable power sources either for small applications (power-hungry laptops for example) or larger ones (stationary, residential, or...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Cold Isostatic Press Produces Components.
April 1, 2004... EPSI (Engineered Pressure Systems, Inc.), a producer of custom- engineered high-pressure solutions, offers its Wet-Bag Cold Isostatic Press (CIP) Production Unit. Designed to produce large volumes of small parts, EPSIs Wet-Bag CIP is ideal for...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS: Faster Rheometer Offered by ATS.
April 1, 2004... ATS RheoSystems, an instrumentation and technical support company specializing in rheometer and viscometer design, dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA), and materials characterization instrumentation, has introduced its new STRESSTECH HR...

STRUCTURAL CERAMICS: Ceradyne Receives Armor Orders.
April 1, 2004... Ceradyne, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDN) has received an additional orders totaling $9.8 million from government agencies for the companys ceramic body armor systems, including small arms protective inserts (SAPI) as well as other body armor systems....

POWDERS AND NANO CERAMICS Seeded Nanoparticles Synthesized.
April 1, 2004... An exciting aspect of research at the nanoscale results as nanostructures hold the potential to display an enhanced and unexpected reactivity relative to that at the micron scale and bulk phase. Further, their formation and interaction may be...

Hydrothermal Route Produces Doped Ceria.
April 1, 2004... The search for new technological ceramics, or the improvement in the quality currently used manufactured materials, has promoted the utilization of new synthesis techniques for preparation of ceramic powders, with controlled chemical...

COATINGS: Reproducible Growth of Cubic-SiC Layers.
April 1, 2004... Researchers at John H. Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, OH) are developing electronic devices and circuits based on silicon carbide (SiC) for use in high-temperature, high-power, and/or high-radiation conditions under which devices made from...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: Zircar Introduces Furnace Gaskets.
April 1, 2004... ZIRCAR Ceramics, Inc. (Florida New York) is introducing a new line of furnace door gaskets. Fabricated by skilled craftsmen the Furnace Door Gaskets (FDG) are made from high quality refractory grade industrial textiles and low thermal...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: Supercold Diamond Superconductivity.
April 1, 2004... Scientists working at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Los Alamos National Laboratory announced today the discovery of superconductivity at ultracold temperatures in cubic diamond. The discovery offers the potential for a new generation of...

OPTICAL MATERIALS: Pre-Melted Oxide Evaporation Materials.
April 1, 2004... CERAC, inc. has been manufacturing specialty inorganic materials and physical vapor deposition materials since 1964. Cerac, inc. has developed a series of pre-melted refractory oxide materials for electron-beam evaporation processes. The...

Shedding Light on Data Transport.
April 1, 2004... Data storage and transmission fuels many aspects of the worlds economy. For example, 75% of IT spending in 2003 for large corporations is expected to be on data storage. General Electric researchers Matthew C. Nielsen1, Xiaolei Shi, Ivan...

Four-Inch GaN Wafers to Debut.
April 1, 2004... Kyma Technologies, Inc. (Raleigh, NC), plans to produce four-inch gallium nitride (GaN) wafers by the end of 2004. These wafers are needed for next-generation optoelectronic and microelectronic technology applications. Ballistic Missile...

BIOCERAMICS: Biocompatible Coatings for Stents.
April 1, 2004... MIV Therapeutics, Inc. (Vancouver, Canada) has announced that its proprietary hydroxyapatite ultra-thin coating technology has successfully passed the systemic injection test, an important milestone on the path to commercialization. On March...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES: Corning Opens Diesel Exhaust Filter Facility.
April 1, 2004... Corning, Inc., a leading supplier of diesel substrates and particulate filters, today celebrated the opening of its new clean-air products plant in Erwin, New York. New York governor George Pataki helped lead the grand opening of the $200...

FUEL CELL: Formulating Stronger SOFC Electrolytes.
April 1, 2004... Tests of materials for solid oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) have shown that modification of chemical compositions can increase the strengths and fracture toughness of SOFC electrolytes. Heretofore, these solid electrolytes have been made of...

Extruded Zirconias for SOFC.
April 1, 2004... Stabilized zirconias, particularly scandia stabilized zirconia (ScSZ), have been proven to be good materials for use as Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) electrolytes. Georgia Tech researchers Kevin M. Hurysz1 and Joe K. Cochran investigated the...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: Chipmakers Present Black Diamond Film.
April 1, 2004... Representatives of eight chipmakers, AMD, Agere, Toshiba, NEC, Motorola, LSI Logic, Altera, and ATI joined Applied Materials president and CEO, Mike Splinter, at an event to present their end products manufactured at the 90-nm node using...

Lonex Boosts Ferrule Capacity.
April 1, 2004... Taiwanese company, Lonex Technology Co., Ltd. has started increasing its monthly capacity for ceramic ferrules from 300,000 to 700,000 units since the beginning of2004. According to Lonexs vice president Tung-Ching Lee, the company has...

Kemet Opens China Facility.
April 1, 2004... Kemet Corp. (NYSE: KEM), a leading supplier of Easy-To-Buy-From passive component solutions, has opened its newest production facility in Suzhou, China. The initial announcement of the facility was in January 2003, and the facility began...

Fairchild Licenses MOSFET Packaging.
April 1, 2004... Fairchild Semiconductor has reached a licensing agreement with GEM Services, Inc. under which the company is offering one of its advanced MOSFET packaging technologies as open tooling for the power semiconductor market. The agreement is...

Vishay Launches Switching MOSFET.
April 1, 2004... In a critical advance that will help designers meet the stringent power-density and packaging requirements of new sub-brick power architectures, Siliconix, Inc. (NASDAQ: SILI), an 80.4% owned subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE:...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Nanotech Breakthrough in Wire Performance.
April 1, 2004... American Superconductor Corp. announced that it has successfully developed and filed a patent application for a nanotechnology- based manufacturing technique that delivers an immediate 30% increase in the electric current-carrying capability of...

AmpLinkRx 1900 Enhances PCS.
April 1, 2004... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (STI, Nasdaq: SCON), a leader in high-temperature superconducting (HTS) products for wireless applications, has announced the launch of AmpLink Rx 1900. This product improves the coverage of current PCS...

YBCO-Flat Wire Gets Go-Ahead.
April 1, 2004... AFRL Technology Horizons (February 2004) reports that a novel flat wire conductor, prepared by coating a metal substrate with yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO), produces a significantly higher current-carrying capacity over conventional copper...

INDUSTRY NEWS: ACerS and USACA Join Forces.
April 1, 2004... The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and The United States Advanced Ceramics Association (USACA) have announced that they have signed a cooperative agreement to share information, collaborate in public affairs activities, and seek projects that...

Nanophase Partners with Altana Chemie.
April 1, 2004... Nanophase Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: NANX), a technology leader in nanomaterials and nanoengineered products, has announced that Nanophase and Altana Chemie AG, the specialty chemicals business of ALTANA AG (NYSE: AAA, FSE: ALT), have formed...

Cree to Acquire GaN Business.
April 1, 2004... Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the gallium nitride (GaN) substrate and epitaxy business of Advanced Technology Materials, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ATMI, Inc. (Nasdaq:...

Ceradyne Stock Splits.
April 1, 2004... By a decision of Ceradynes board of directors has approved a 3- for-2 stock split in the form of a 50% stock dividend. The stock dividend will be distributed on April 7, 2004, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 30,...

Companies Report Quarterly Results.
April 1, 2004... Intermagnetics General Corp. (Nasdaq: IMGC) has posted its third quarter results. Demonstrating early benefits from its acquisition of medical device manufacturer Invivo Corp. and continued improvements in cost controls and overall...

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS: Phase Equilibria Diagrams on CD.
April 1, 2004... The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announce the release of the ACerS- NIST Phase Equilibria Diagrams CD-ROM Database Version 3.0. Phase diagrams are used throughout the...

Books Available from MRS.
April 1, 2004... Advanced Metallization Conference 2003 (AMC 2003), Edited by G.W. Ray, T. Smy, T. Ohta, M. Tsujimura, it is the proceeding of the Advanced Metallization Conference (AMC)_held in Montreal, Canada and Tokyo, Japan, marking its twentieth...

CALENDAR.
April 1, 2004... May 12-14, 2004. Thermal Spray Solutions Advances in Technology and Application, International Thermal Spray Conference and Exposition, Osaka, Japan; Organized by DVS - German Welding Society, ASM International - Thermal Spray Society...