High Tech Ceramics News articles from August 2002

High Tech Ceramics News archives from August 2002

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Advanced Ceramics Market Declines.
August 1, 2002... The advanced ceramic market declined 10% from 2000 to 2001 because of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and the continuing economic slump. The market continued to decline in the first six months of 2002, and the decline is likely to...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES Corning, Foseco in Supply Contract.
August 1, 2002... Corning, Inc., and Foseco Metallurgical, Inc., have signed a new three-year contract to supply Corning extruded ceramic molten metal filters to Foseco. The agreement, valued at approximately $40 million, will provide the foundry industry in...

Pressure Technology Plans HIP Facility.
August 1, 2002... Pressure Technology, Inc., has announced plans to open a 12,000- square-foot HIP facility in Concord Township, Ohio, approximately 20 minutes east of Cleveland. The new plant, expected to open in late 2002, will initially house a high-pressure,...

EDO Receives Big Task Order.
August 1, 2002... EDO Corp. (NYSE: EDO) announced the receipt of a task order from the U.S. Air Force, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, to provide the AN/PLM-4 Radar Signal Simulator. The task order, valued at $6.8 million, is for an additional 88 AN/PLM-4...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Phosphorus Dopant Reference Materials.
August 1, 2002... Measurements of dopant concentrations in silicon wafers can be made accurately and consistently now, thanks to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) used to calibrate secondary ion mass...

POWDERS & NANO CERAMICS: Superior MicroPowders Is Expanding.
August 1, 2002... Supported by over $12M in new long-term commercial and government contracts within the energy, electronics, and display industries, Superior MicroPowders (SMP) is in the process of expanding its workforce and infrastructure. Bob Size,...

France Promotes Nanotechnology.
August 1, 2002... Minatec, the Center for Innovation in Micro and Nanotechnology located in the French Alps city of Grenoble, became a reality at the beginning of 2002. This began with the signing of an outline agreement between the project's partners: the...

Bismuth Titanate Formed Hydrothermally.
August 1, 2002... Purdue University researchers E. B. Slamovich, H. Xu, and K. J. Bowman (West Lafayette, IN) have synthesized bismuth titanate powders by reacting nanocrystalline TiO2 in alkaline aqueous solutions of bismuth nitrate at temperatures ranging from...

Phosphor Powder Synthesized at 90(C.
August 1, 2002... German researchers P. Majewski and F. Aldinger (Max Planck Institute for Metallforschung) and C. A. Tas (Merck Biomaterial GmbH) have prepared pure or Mn-doped ZnGa2O4 powders in situ in urea (with or without enzyme urease)-containing Zn- and...

COATINGS: Nanostructured WC-Co by Thermal Spray.
August 1, 2002... University of Connecticut researchers Z. Ban and L.L. Shaw have synthesized nanostructured WC-Co coatings using HVOF thermal spray. The nanocrystalline feedstock powder with a nominal composition of WC-18wt%Co was prepared using a novel...

FIBERS AND COMPOSITES: Tension Behavior of Nextel/Blackglas.
August 1, 2002... Tension behavior of Nextel 312 fiber reinforced Blackglas ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) was investigated with the aid of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques by a joint effort of University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National...

DIAMOND PRODUCTS: Micropatterns by ECR Oxygen Plasma.
August 1, 2002... Japanese researchers Shuji Kiyohara and Katsumi Mori (Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Science Univ. of Tokyo in Yamaguchi, 1-1-1 Daigaku-dori, Onoda, Yamaguchi 756-0884, Japan; Tel: +81-(0)836-3500, ext.653, Fax:...

System for Diamond Coating Deposition.
August 1, 2002... Ukrainian researchers at National Science Centre at Kharkov Institute of Physics & Technology (V. K. Pashnev, O. A. Opalev, I. I. Vyrovets, V. E. Strel'nitskij, V. A. Belous), Kharkov State Polytechnical University (Z. I. Kolupaeva), and...

STRCTURAL CARBON Carbon/Carbon Improves Brakes.
August 1, 2002... Honeywell has developed a unique process for infiltrating ceramic additives into carbon/carbon disc brake preforms, effectively achieving homogeneous dispersion of the additives throughout preform cross-sections. Specifically, aqueous vacuum...

FUEL CELLS: Altair's Cell Powers Electric Motor.
August 1, 2002... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc., has announced a successful series of its advanced solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) test demonstrations. The first series of tests were held March 28, 2002, and produced electricity. The second series of tests, held in...

BIOCERAMICS: Mineralization with Human Osteoblasts.
August 1, 2002... MIT researchers H. Wang and L. W. Hobbs have been exploring two in vitro models to complement in vivo studies of bone mineralization at plasma-sprayed hydroxyapatite-coated alloy surfaces. Human cancellous (metaphyseal) bone fragments harvested...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES MIECs Reduce Hydrogen Cost.
August 1, 2002... Boston University engineers are seeking an alternate path to the "hydrogen economy" by applying mixed ionic and electronic conducting (MIEC) ceramic membranes to gas separation. By using reactors containing MIEC membranes many of the expensive...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS: NIST Team Seeks Microchip Materials.
August 1, 2002... New methods reported in the July 19, 2002, issue of Science by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and the University of Texas at Austin cover the semiconductor...

Enhanced Memory Product Available.
August 1, 2002... Ramtron International Corporation (NASDAQ: RMTR) subsidiary Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc., has announced that samples and preproduction quantities of its 72Mb No Bus Latency (NoBL) Burst Enhanced SRAM (ESRAM) are now being delivered to...

Vishay Releases Film Capacitor.
August 1, 2002... Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., released a new metallized polyester film capacitor, a new photo detector, and new LEDs. The new Vishay Roederstein MKT1820 metallized polyester film capacitor is designed for coupling, blocking, bypassing, timing,...

Cree Awarded Defense Contracts.
August 1, 2002... Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE), was awarded government contracts totaling $26.5 million, if fully funded, over a three-year period from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) for silicon carbide (SiC) microwave...

NIST Evaluates Thin-Film Models.
August 1, 2002... A comprehensive study by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers has found significant differences among software packages that try to predict the electrical properties of ultra-thin dielectric films used in...

Hoya Unit to Make SIC Wafers.
August 1, 2002... Hoya Corp., an advanced glass products manufacturer, plans to establish a new company, Hoya Advanced Semiconductor Technologies Co., Ltd., at Akishuma-shi, Tokyo, for the development and production of silicon carbide wafers. About 2.5 billion...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: AMSC, GE Receive Win Voltage Regulation Order.
August 1, 2002... American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC), a leading global supplier of superconductor products and power electronic converters for the electric power industry, and GE Industrial Systems, a business of the General Electric Company (NYSE:...

STI Grows Fastest in Los Angeles Area.
August 1, 2002... Superconductor Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of high- temperature superconducting (HTS) products for wireless applications, has been named to Deloitte & Touche's prestigious "Technology Fast 50" program for the Los Angeles area, a ranking...

IGC Superpower Reports Progress.
August 1, 2002... Intermagnetics General Corp.'s (NASDAQ: IMGC) Energy Technology subsidiary, IGC-SuperPower, reported at the Annual DOE Technical Peer Reviews substantial progress in efforts to ultimately produce devices designed to provide more efficient,...

COMPANY NEWS: Corning Team in Inventors Hall of Fame.
August 1, 2002... When the U.S. passed the Clean Air Act of 1970, three innovators at Corning Glass Works, now Corning, Inc., rose to the challenge of reducing automotive pollutants. At a ceremony held at the headquarters of Hewlett-Packard Co., leading...

SALES AND EARNINGS CPS Reduces Quarterly Losses.
August 1, 2002... Ceramics Process Systems Corp. (CPS) recently announced a net loss of $63,000, or $0.01 per basic and diluted common share, on revenue of $1,471,000 for the fiscal quarter ended June 29, 2002. This compares with a net loss of $204,000, or $0.02...

AMSC Revenues Up, Losses Mounting.
August 1, 2002... American Superconductor Corp. reported results for the first quarter fiscal 2003, which ended June 30, 2002. Net revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2003 were $2.9 million compared to $1.7 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2002. The...

CoorsTek Revenue Gains 21%.
August 1, 2002... CoorsTek, Inc., announced financial results for the second quarter of 2002. During the second quarter, the company generated $17.2 million of net cash from operations as a result of a continued focus on optimizing working capital. CoorsTek...

Ceradyne Sales Gain in Quarter.
August 1, 2002... Ceradyne, Inc., recently reported financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2002, including record second quarter sales, the third consecutive quarter of record- level sales, and improving gross margins compared to...

STI Revenues Gain By 31%.
August 1, 2002... Superconductor Technologies, Inc., which calls itself the global leader in high-temperature superconducting (HTS) products for wireless voice and data applications, announced financial results for the quarter and six months ended June 29, 2002....

Kemet Sees Earnings Plunge.
August 1, 2002... Kemet Corp. (NYSE: KEM), says its net profit tumbled to $3.4 million, or $0.4 a share, from $13.1 million, or $0.15 a share. Revenues fell 19% to $124 million from $152.7 million. The average Wall Street estimate was $0.2 a share, with a range...

AVX Corporation Declares Dividend.
August 1, 2002... AVX Corp. (NYSE: AVX) declared a dividend of $0.0375 per common share for the quarter ended June 30, 2002, at its Board of Director's meeting held on July 23, 2002. This dividend will be paid to shareholders of record on August 9, 2002, and...

CALENDAR.
August 1, 2002... September 7-10, 2002, Third International Conference on Inorganic Materials, Steigenberger Hotel, Konstanz, Germany. Contact: Conference Secretariat, Stanford Business Ct., 21-23 High St., Stanford-in-the-Vale, Oxon SN7 8LH, U.K.; Tel: (44)...