High Tech Ceramics News articles from December 2000

High Tech Ceramics News archives from December 2000

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS PVD Market on the Rise.
December 1, 2000... Surface modification has been a key factor in the technological progress of the past several decades. Techniques typically include surface treatments, where the composition of mechanical properties of the existing surface are altered; or...

PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGIES GBC Offers Miniature Alumina Ceramics.
December 1, 2000... GBC Materials, a division of Morgan Advanced Ceramics (MAC) and a world leader in high-volume production of intricate ceramic and glass components for the electronics and telecommunications markets, has started offering miniature, dry-pressed...

SiNeramics Promoting Silicon Nitrides.
December 1, 2000... SiNeramics is exclusively focusing on silicon nitride ceramics. With 73 global patents (and more pending) and 20 years of development of silicon nitride ceramics at Eaton Corp., managed by J. Edler, Sineramics has licensed the technology for...

METROLOGY AND ANALYSIS Nanometer-Scale Lithography Devised.
December 1, 2000... Lawrence Berkeley Lab has devised a novel nanolithographic technique for generating patterned structures at the atomic level, directly on a substrate. This new technique uses a current-sensing atomic force microscope (AFM) probe both as a...

Haake Changes to Thermo Haake.
December 1, 2000... Haake Instruments has changed its name to Thermo Haake as a part of a new corporate identity strategy initiated by its parent company, Thermo Electron Corp. (NYSE:TMO). The program is designed to establish a strong affiliation between Thermo...

POWDERS AND NANOCERAMICS Optical Crystals from Titania.
December 1, 2000... In the past few years, photonic bandgap materials have emerged as a new class of artificial materials, which are capable of manipulating electromagnetic waves as never before. Photonic bandgap material is composed of a periodic array of...

COATINGS: Smaller ICs Using Thin Films.
December 1, 2000... Jet Process Corp. (New Haven, CT), a BMDO (Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) SBIR-funded company has licensed its proprietary Jet Vapor Deposition (JVD) thin-film technology to one of the world's largest suppliers of semiconductor device...

Aremco Offers Alumina Adhesive.
December 1, 2000... A continuing problem in the firing of ceramic parts is the cracking of carrier plates, or saggers. Aremco's new Ceramabond 503, a single-component, alumina-based adhesive system, can reportedly be used to repair sagger plates with excellent...

Goodfellow Offers Sputtering Targets.
December 1, 2000... Goodfellow Corp. offers research scientists and design engineers a wide range of evaporation and sputtering materials manufactured to precise specifications. Targets are available in 62 different metals and alloys, as well as compounds such as...

FILTERS AND MEMBRANES: Membrane Transports Gases and Protons.
December 1, 2000... For many years, interest in ceramic membranes has languished. While ceramic membranes offer some theoretical advantages over polymer membranes, especially in high-temperature applications, it has been problematic to actually produce these...

ADVANCED GLASSES: Sol-Gel Is Route to Optical Fibers.
December 1, 2000... Lucent Technologies' researchers have pursued sol-gel as a means for producing vitreous silica of high intrinsic worth for optical fiber manufacture. In a paper presented by Michael P. Bohrer, a technical manager of chemical engineering...

Tosoh Realigns U.S. Silica Sales.
December 1, 2000... Tosoh Corp. has realigned its U.S. silica glass materials sales division, Nippon Silica Glass USA, Inc., to be renamed TOSOH SGM USA, Inc., effective January 1, 2001. Located in Bound Brook, New Jersey, TOSOH SGM USA, Inc., will continue to be...

ELECTRONIC CERAMICS IBM, NTK Form Substrate Deal.
December 1, 2000... IBM and NTK Technical Ceramics, a division of NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd., have announced a multiyear agreement under which NTK will supply IBM with added capacity for the production of ceramic substrate chip carriers. Combined with IBM's own...

Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices.
December 1, 2000... Pennsylvania State University researcher K. Uchino is investigating acoustic transduction materials and devices. A primary objective is to help shorten the time constant for new materials and device concepts to be applied in practical Navy...

ATC Receives ISO 9001.
December 1, 2000... American Technical Ceramics (ATC) Corp.'s Jacksonville, Florida, facility has received certification under the ISO 9001 quality standards. This recognition expands the facility's ISO 9002 certification, received for its manufacturing operations...

CoorsTek Expands in Korea.
December 1, 2000... CoorsTek (NASDAQ:CRTX), a leading designer and manufacturer of critical components and integrated assemblies for the semiconductor capital equipment industry and other high-technology applications, is expanding the capacity of its subsidiary,...

Siliconix Unveils MOSFET Roadmap.
December 1, 2000... Siliconix, Inc. (NASDAQ:SILI), an 80.4%-owned subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE:VSH), has unveiled its roadmap for an advanced-power MOSFET packaging technology which is a breakthrough for high-power-density applications. The new...

SEMX Receives Large Order.
December 1, 2000... SEMX Corp., (NASDAQ:SEMX), has received a significant product order at Polese Co. (San Diego, CA) valued at approximately $5,000,000 from an industry-leading, fiber-optic component manufacturer. The order is the single largest initial order of...

SUPERCONDUCTORS: Large Order for SuperFilter Systems.
December 1, 2000... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (STI) has announced that it has received an order for $850,000 worth of SuperFilter Systems from a continuing customer to be deployed primarily in suburban- and urban-sectored code division multiple access...

AMSC Wins Navy Contract.
December 1, 2000... American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) has received a follow-on contract for $1.6 million from the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) for the design and development of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) motors for electric ship...

ISCO Ships Eight HTS Systems.
December 1, 2000... Illinois Superconductor Corp. has announced that it has shipped an initial order of eight ATP Classic systems to Verizon Wireless. The eight HTS systems, deployed in select analog cell sites in Verizon's Indiana Region, support range extension...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Corning Acquires NoTox.
December 1, 2000... Corning, Inc., a world-leading supplier of emission-control components, has agreed to acquire NoTox A/S from Silentor NoTox A/S for US$8.5 million in cash. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, NoTox develops and produces diesel particulate filters...

Nanophase Increases Sales Representation.
December 1, 2000... Nanophase Technologies Corp. has appointed Wise Technical Marketing to represent the company's line of nano-engineered products in the Midwest and the Gillen Co., LLC to promote the company's NanoTek metal oxides in Pennsylvania and surrounding...

Poco Graphite Goes Independent.
December 1, 2000... Unocal, Poco Graphite's parent company, has been divesting several noncore businesses for the last few years. While Poco fell into this noncore category, the company has experienced many years of continued growth and records sales. Unocal...

New Name for Norton Unit.
December 1, 2000... Norton Chemical Process Products Corp. is changing its name to Saint-Gobain NorPro Corp. to reflect its relationship with parent company Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, a world leader in engineered materials with headquarters in Paris. The name...

Conductus Reports Quarterly Results.
December 1, 2000... Conductus, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high-performance superconducting wireless systems announced its third-quarter financial results for the period ended September 30, 2000. The company reported revenues of $589,000 for the third quarter...

AMK Sales Gain in Quarter.
December 1, 2000... American Ceramic Corp. announced earnings for the first quarter ended September 30, 2000. Net sales for the quarter ended September 30, 2000 increased 76% to $20,897,000 from $11,902,000 in the comparable quarter in fiscal year 2000. Net income...

Record Results for CTS Corp.
December 1, 2000... CTS Corp. announced record quarterly and year-to-date results for sales, net earnings, and earnings per share. Sales increased 23% for the third quarter to $222.1 million, compared to the $180.2 million in the third quarter of last year, while...

STI Revises Accounting.
December 1, 2000... Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (STI) has announced that, based on discussions with its auditors, it has revised its accounting treatment of the warrants vested in the third quarter upon receipt of the previously announced $7.8 million...

CPS Reports Net Loss.
December 1, 2000... Ceramics Process Systems Corp. (CPS) announced a net loss of $298,000 ($0.02 per basic and diluted share) on revenue of $1.1 million for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2000. These results compare with net income of $56,000 ($0.00 per...

Blasch Precision Gets ISO 9001.
December 1, 2000... Blasch Precision Ceramics has received ISO 9001 certification according to standards set by National Quality Assurance. "Becoming an ISO-accredited company is just one of the ways Blasch continues to strive to be a world-class customer service...

CALENDAR.
December 1, 2000... January 21-26, 2001, The 25th Annual International Conference on Advanced Ceramics & Composites, Doubletree/Hilton Hotels, Cocoa Beach, FL. Contact: American Ceramic Society, P.O. Box 6136, Westerville, OH 43086-6136; Tel: 614/890-4700, Fax:...